Ruben who is excellent at spotting new Google user interface tests, has spotted yet another one and posted the details in the Google Blogoscoped Forums. This new test, as you can see from the image in this post…

It’s been a year since Bing began powering the natural search results on Yahoo and the combination has gained a little more than 4% market share in the U.S. since then. Google has dropped more than six percentage points in the same time period

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.

Posted by Cyrus Shepard We love exact match anchor text! It’s the Holy Grail of links that make our rankings soar – or does it? Many SEOs predict Google will continue to devalue exact match anchors as their algorithm evolves in the age of Panda.

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It’s official: the moustachioed, scotch-swilling GooglePleaseHire.ME guy has landed his dream job. But it’s not with Google.

Eric Enge has an excellent interview with Bing’s Duane Forrester. There are many excellent take aways from this interview but the key is this: Bing says that social factors are more important that link factors for determining rankings..

Baidu, China’s largest search engine, has released a mobile operating system built on top of Android. The Baidu OS will be getting hardware from Dell and possibly others. The Baidu Yi OS China is the world’s second largest smartphone market, a…

Earlier today, Google announced the acquisition of the prestigious restaurant-rating organization Zagat for an undisclosed price. Zagat, which rates restaurants on a 1-30 scale, has collected consumer surveys and reviews for restaurants in over 100 major cities around the world. Google executive Marissa Mayer stated that Zagat will become a “cornerstone” for Google’s local services division in the near future.