Yahoo has announced their new CEO. The new CEO is Scott Thompson, the President of PayPal. Thompson starts his new job at Yahoo on January 9th.

A WebmasterWorld thread has a common SEO question. Should you have the same keyword phrase that you use on an internal page, placed also on the home page?

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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 Expands Test Of AdWords That Collect Email Addresses In the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen significantly more people reporting they’ve seen… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Most people are aware of Rick Santorum’s issues with Google, but he’s not the only politician having issues.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

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In the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen significantly more people reporting they’ve seen AdWords that allow advertisers to collect email addresses directly in the ad unit. Now Google has confirmed it has expanded the trial of the lead generation format to additional advertisers…

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Among several interesting new search tweaks in Google’s latest monthly recap is a project internally called “Megasitelinks,” along with improvements to Google’s image search tool, its detection of “byline dates” on web documents and much more. Google just began… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article