Google is adding a useful new feature to Google Maps: current weather reports.

YouTube has long been a place to turn for music, but that’s been no small source of headaches for Google when it comes to licensing. Now YouTube has re-launched their music page – possibly as a way to celebrate a recent arrangement with licensing groups who Google has been struggling with since 2007.

Citing violations to the countries strict privacy laws, the Independent Center for Privacy Protection (ULD) called for all Facebook ‘like’ plugins to be removed in the German state of Schlewsing-Holstein.  The ULD stated that the Facebook ‘like’ plugin infringes on the… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Bing’s Facebook fans really “like” searching. And they like searching on Bing, it appears. According to a recent comScore white paper, Bing’s Facebook fans do 68% more searches (on Bing) than the average Bing user

Google has confirmed a new user interface test on the search results page where the left side search filters are in a scrollable frame, and the middle of the search results are in their own scrollable frame. Technically, they are not frames, but rather some form of AJAX or HTML5 like interface

Yahoo is still one of the most powerful search front-ends in the world, but in most regions, Bing now takes care of every back-end concern – including both the search algorithm and the search ads.

Login to your Bing Webmaster Tools and click on a traffic report…

At the SES conference this week I gave several presentations on Content Marketing: “Content Marketing Optimization” and “The Convergence of Search, Social & Content Marketing”.  In the CMO session, I provided SEO tips for each spoke in a hub and spoke model. The hub in this situation was a blog and one of the most common issues with business blog success is fresh content

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Google Wave Pool With Sergey Brin: Google +1 T-Shirt: Matt Cutts Marathon… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

In the early spring, a MarketingSherpa article highlighting the 2011 SEO benchmark report revealed that 20 percent of organizations surveyed had no process for performing SEO and 46 percent of marketers only had an informal process they rando…