Baidu has announced an agreement with Microsoft for powering searches on the top Chinese search engine. This could be a leg up for Microsoft in a market from which Google has chosen to pull out.

Google is planning to rename two of its popular services soon: Blogger will become Google Blogs and Picasa will become Google Photos. That’s according to Mashable, which says the changes are due in the next six weeks. Google’s YouTube property will not be included in the company’s…

There was quite a variety of content making the rounds last week on our sister site, Sphinn, and this week’s recap reflects that. Hot on the heels of the launch of Google+, our “Discussion of the Week” asked a simple question: Can Google Succeed at Social Networking?

There is a great new thread at WebmasterWorld on the topic of SEO strategies. Specifically…

It’s been less than three months since Bing released its first iPad app.

SMX East Super Early Bird rates expire next week. These are the lowest rates offered. Register by July 16 and you’ll save $500 off on-site rates.

SEOmoz just completed their first of four cities they will visit and speak at for #mozcation. Those who spoke in the Salt Lake City visit were @randfish, @chrisbennett and @vinceblackham. Repurpose Success

Can you imagine there being a change at Google that pre-dates Panda, (and subsequent incarnations) the +1 button, the attribution algo updates and few if any in the SEO world had noticed? I mean, it makes one helluva trivia question don’t it? Not as much fun as; What does Archie comics have to do with the early history of search

A good friend of mine who was one of the first people on Google+ shared a photo of his wife with me yesterday.

I logged in this morning to Bing Webmaster Tools and noticed a pop up from Bing asking me if I want to receive email notifications of site issues and also updates…