Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Search For Hotels With Google Hotel Finder Forget using Google Maps when you want to find a hotel to stay at for a business trip or family vacation! You can now..

Forget using Google Maps when you want to find a hotel to stay at for a business trip or family vacation! You can now use Google’s Hotel Finder.

A US Senate subcommittee will conduct a hearing in September on Google’s search/business practices. The hearing, titled “The Power of Google: Serving Consumers or Threatening Competition?,” will take place on September 21, 2011, at 2:00 pm ET. It appears that a webcast will be..

It appears Google is testing new search results optimized for tablets. The experimental design removes the left-side navigation in favor of horizontal navigation with dropdown menus, and removes the trademark “Gooooooooooogle” from the…

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Facebook has launched Facebook for Business, a new resource hub dedicated to helping businesses get started and optimize their brand on Facebook.

There are a few easy ways for journalists to get their readers’ attention: breaking news, in-depth profiles, tugging emotional heartstrings, or by stirring up some controversy.

Google rebranded Boost to AdWords Express this week and along with that came huge price increases on the CPC (cost per click) side for some AdWords Express advertisers…

Searchmetrics has conducted a data analysis on what type of content appears most often in Google Universal Search results, as well as which sites are most visible in them. Blog and image content wins, as does content hosted on Google’s own properties. Universal Search Loves Blogs, Images The…

It’s hard to believe that it was just one month ago today that Google+ launched. So much has happened to the fledgling service in this short time.