A limited number of Facebook advertisers are testing what appears to be the next iteration of Sponsored Stories. They are targeting the social site’s users who have played video games, watched videos, or listened to songs, among other examples

DuckDuckGo has good reason to quack. The small startup search engine announced that it received more than 1 million searches for the first time on the eve of Valentine’s Day. More than a million searches were also conducted on Valentine’s Day.

Google’s John Mueller announced in the Google Webmaster Help forums and on Google+ that Google is running new Google+ hangouts today. One we already missed, it was about an hour or two ago at 6am EDT. But the next one is later this afternoon at 4pm EDT/1pm PDT..

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: 62 Percent Of Valentine’s Day Restaurant Searches Were Mobile Google is releasing some data on mobile search and Valentine’s Day. The company..

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…

Posted by neilpatel This post was originally in YouMoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. We all know that when it comes to getting high rankings in the search engines link building is one of the most critical activities you can engage in…whether you are using tactics to get a large amount of links or zeroing in on attracting high-authority links .

Google is releasing some data on mobile search and Valentine’s Day. The company said, “A whopping 62 percent of total searches for popular national chain restaurants [in the US] on Valentine’s Day occurred on high end mobile devices or tablets.” One more time: 62 percent of all… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Hey, you know what this country needs? Another reason to keep normal people out of politics. Rick Santorum’s icky problem might be a little less problematic for him now that all the cool kids are getting their own Spreading sites.

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