Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google+ Poised To Become Number Two Network In 12 Months According To Survey A Bloomberg-YouGov survey of 1,003 online adults found that Google+ is on a… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

A WebmasterWorld thread reports Google bolding or highlighting words in the search results that are not actual words you searched for.

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Oren Etzioni, a computer scientist at the University of Washington, has made a call for deeper investment in actively providing answers in a natural language formats. This, claims Etzioni, is the future of search. The “Natural Language Q&A” ..

A recent study from Jumptap gives insights into how the users of different smartphones interact with advertisements. iOS devices have a strong lead in ad click-through rate (CTR), while Android places fourth. The Jumptap Statistics Jumptap rel..

Despite starting conservatively with my personal Google+ use, I’ve had quite a few people ask me what I thought of G+ and when we’d write a post about it here on TopRank’s Online Marketing Blog.

It’s been about six months since Google rolled out the first Panda (then called Farmer) update to its ranking algorithm — and Panda has since gone through at least three updates that we know of. Have we learned anything in that six month period

A Bloomberg-YouGov survey of 1,003 online adults found that Google+ is on a trajectory to surpass other social networks, including Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace. YouGov projects that Google+ will become the number two network after Facebook, “in the next year.” The survey also suggests… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

At the recent SEMPO LA Mobile Event (sponsored by AT&T interactive) moderator Danny Sullivan told a story about the early days at Google. As early as 2000, Sergey Brin was telling everyone who would listen about the incredible applications of his search engine on cell phones. Even for a forward…