What a way to start the week. The company that once said it would never build its own mobile phones, Google, wants to buy mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility

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

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Foursquare Adds ‘Lists’ Functionality For Profiles & Pages Over the past few years Foursquare has been rapidly evolving, and their newly…

Posted by richardbaxterseo A few weeks ago I attended (and had the honour of speaking at) Mozcon .

Over the past few years Foursquare has been rapidly evolving, and their newly announced “lists” feature looks like a very promising new addition. Touted as being “super easy to use,” Foursquare lists can be created from a users profile page with assistance from Foursquare,..

Conductor, an SEO technology and intelligence company, has added Google +1 social analytics tracking to its suite.

Two discussions took center stage last week on our sister site, Sphinn — both dealt with fairly detailed SEO and linking issues. Our “Discussion of the Week” asked, Do Unlinked Company/Brand Mentions Help with SEO?, and the general consensus from a handful of reply was along the… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Bing announced new features for their Shopping Search features. The features inluce: Refine Your Searches Faster Find Sale Prices Share Your Shopping Lists on Facebook Bing Shopping has added a form of Google Instant results for shopping refinements

Google has again slapped a comparison shopping site owned by its primary search competitor, Bing, as part of its most recent expansion of the “Panda” algorithm update. It’s only been a few days since Google pushed out Panda around the world in all languages except Chinese,… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

LinkedIn has been experimenting with new social ad formats that tell users when members of their network follow a given advertiser.