A few days ago, Erik from the Google News team posted a thread in the Google News Help forums asking Google News publishers to please use the report an update form when making changes to their site…

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. From Search Engine Land: Yandex Joins Bing, Yahoo In Using Nokia-Navteq Map Data Russian search giant Yandex announced that it will be licensing data from Nokia-owned Navteq to offer…

For years legislators, privacy advocates, and the FTC have suggested Google simplify its privacy policies. In consolidating policies associated with various Google products, it stands to reason the company believed it was satisfying such requests.

WordStream has updated their AdWords Performance Grader, released in August, 2011. Peer report data is now more accurate, as the tool has analyzed almost half a billion in annualized PPC spend, about 1.5 percent of Google’s total ad revenue.

Russian search giant Yandex announced that it will be licensing data from Nokia-owned Navteq to offer better and more comprehensive maps coverage around the world: Yandex . .

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SEMrush is set to launch their new AdSense Advertiser Report as part of their SEO toolkit.

Google has begun sending out the 1099 tax forms to qualifying Google AdSense publishers last and this week. A WebmasterWorld thread has some publishers claiming they have received theirs. Not every publisher gets one.

When Google+ first hit the scene this past summer, I couldn’t help but think about how the fledgling social network could eventually be monetized by Google.  I do a lot of SEM work and know how powerful Google’s AdWords platform is, as well as how much revenue it generates for Google.  The AdWords platform generates Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal