If she were alive, it would be the 100th birthday of comedian Lucille Ball. For that anniversary, Google’s done a special logo, in the shape of a television and which plays several clips from classic “I Love Lucy” episodes.

Google announced yet another feature added to the Google News side bar, this is called editors picks. It is a bit un-searchy to me being that editors (not from Google) are hand picking stories to show there. Of course…

There is a report at WebmasterWorld that Google is not showing their root of their domain, the main www.example.com…

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.

It is not even a month since the last Google toolbar PageRank update which took place July 18th in reaction to a bug with the PageRank update on June 27th or so. Google, yesterday, has pushed out yet another PageRank update in the toolbar.

Google is once again testing — or continuing to test — a jumbo-sized search result that displays a whopping 12 sitelinks below the main/top search result. Here’s one example of how it looks: That’s an image posted yesterday by Seer Interactive, where their blog post has..

That image appears to be the first crash involving one of Google’s self-driving cars.

On Wednesday, I moderated a special panel at the Churchill Club involving the Googlers who oversee Google’s search algorithm, its search features and its spam fighting efforts. We covered a wide-range of search issues, and a video of the talk is now available. Three Kings Of Search In my…