Google has reached an agreement with France’s largest publishing company, Hachette Libre. The agreement will allow Google to digitize and scan books from Hachette’s library of copyrighted but out-of-print texts, The New York Times reported

Google has reached an agreement with France’s largest publishing company, Hachette Libre. The agreement will allow Google to digitize and scan books from Hachette’s library of copyrighted but out-of-print texts, The New York Times reported. The ..

Recently, there were two new books that came out about Google.

Ripoff Report is completely gone from Google’s index and Google says it’s been done at Ripoff Report’s own request. But, the question now is whether that request was made on purpose or an accident.

Posted by randfish To say I was bowled over when Martin MacDonald of OMD showed the results of his testing on query volume influencing rankings (not just auto-suggest, but actual positions) would be an understatement.

Today Facebook announced the release of Messenger, an app for mobile devices that allows for messaging to “friends and small groups.”  This app allows for messaging to both Facebook friends and phone contacts, something Google+’s Huddles doesn’t do.  Messenger acts as an… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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

Three weeks have passed since the surprising news that Google would be shutting down Google Labs, its playground where experimental product ideas went to live or die. We now know a little more about which ones will live and which won’t. Over the past several days, Google has been updating..

Twitter says it’s planning to create “user media galleries” that will house all of the media a user shares on the service — including items uploaded and shared via other services. The news comes at the same time that Twitter has begun accepting direct photo uploads via the..