I spotted a very interesting tidbit I did not know myself on how Google calculates organic search impressions within webmaster tools…

A little over a month ago, Digg  launched Newswire , a real-time, Top News section that attempted to get users back into curating the stories that go popular, versus just reading the popular stories showcased on the Digg front page. Today, a month and a half later, Digg CEO Matt Williams emailed a select group of invitees letting them know their accounts were included in a closed beta release of Newsrooms. “Newsrooms are the first step in creating the most relevant news around any given topic, as ranked by social signals across the web and refined by top contributors on Digg

Twitter has acquired Julpan, a small start-up search service in New York that had focused on analyzing social activity in order to improve search results.

This afternoon, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt is expected to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The hearing, which is appropriately titled “The Power of Google: Serving Consumers or Threatening Competition,” will investigate whether Google has abused its monopolistic market dominance in the search and online marketing sector. During the hearing, the committee will question Eric Schmidt, Nextag CEO Jeff Katz, and Yelp co-founder Jeremy Stoppelman.

This afternoon, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt is expected to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

What’s the top-level domain (TLD) of your website? If you’re a big brand, more likely than not it’s .com; if you’re a nonprofit, it’s probably .org; if it’s a more generic domain name, perhaps you’ve got t…

Google is actively seeking “cool” ideas for the future of Google web search. Matt Cutts wrote a blog post named What cool new websearch ideas should Google launch in 2012…

After a three-month invite only field test, Google+ released the social network to open beta yesterday afternoon. Vic Gundotra, Google’s Senior Vice President of Engineering, posted the following message to the Google Blog announcing open sign-ups: “For the past 12 weeks we’ve been in field trial, and during that time we’ve listened and learned a great deal

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In addition to recently adding the Subscribe button and the new Friend List options, Facebook is introducing even more new options and updates. Late Tuesday afternoon, Facebook revealed an updated News Feed with new features and presented the brand new real-time Ticker. The News Feed, which will no longer simply show updates in chronological order, is combining the Most Recent and the Top Stories into one feed.