It turns out that Google will testify in September before the Senate Judiciary Committee Antitrust subpanel, according to The Hill. Before the formal initiation of the FTC’s antitrust investigation against Google the company had declined to send Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt or new CEO… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

For SES San Francisco we’re launching an “Attendees Choice Contest” that could garner you a trip to attend the conference (August 15-19th, 2011) for free. Yup! That’s right, for FREE (as long as you are a resident of the …

Shark Week, a smash-hit marketing initiative by the Discovery Channel, pulled in nearly 30.8 unique viewers last year, making 2010 a record breaker. Shark Week started way back in 1987 and last year, and many celebrities have hosted the event si..

Wingu, a cloud-based collaboration system designed to improve the speed of scientific work, has caught the eye of Google. Google Ventures, the venture capital arm of the search giant, has stealthily invested in the startup. More About Wingu Co…

A Sphinn has discussion around a post by Pixelrage on what types of sites were hit hardest by the Google Panda update…

There are widespread reports that the McAfee browser security software is automatically +1′ing search results within Google. A Google Web Search Help thread has several reports with these complaints…

A HighRankings Forum thread has one SEO saying he was asked by another SEO company to sell them a link, a text link. But the weird part is the SEO company specifically asked for the link to be nofollowed..

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…