Posted by Aaron Wheeler My name is Aaron Wheeler and, up until a couple of weeks ago, I was the manager of the Help Team here at SEOmoz. Rand's been out of the office at conferences and I've decided it's time to make my move. I've been waiting for this moment for 2 years now, sitting idly by, watching SEOmoz use a bunch of robots to tell us about websites and links and the internets

VegasTech is technepreneursim at its best. Every part of the city is touched in some way by this new spirit. And in Vegas tech, people are infinitely supportive of each other.

Google will reportedly launch a new budget Nexus Tablet aimed at the same market as Amazon’s Kindle Fire.

Google offered Oracle $3 million plus less than 1 percent of its Android’s revenue in the hopes of avoiding a trial over claims that Google’s Android operating system has infringed on Java patents. Oracle has rejected the offer for being too low.

The ad sector, Federal Trade Commission, and U.S. Commerce Department have thrown their weight behind Do Not Track.

Google says the goal of the project is to create a central meeting point for London’s booming tech startup community. As well as the free workspace, the campus will run mentoring programs, hosting talks, and seminars from industry figures.

Yesterday Google launched a new program called Google Consumer Surveys – it is basically taking an expensive thing to do, market research surveys, and making it fast and cheap. Will it last – I am not sure…

I sped through this week’s recap, just in a rush, sorry. There was a new Panda rollout…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Will Pending Layoffs Put Final Nail In Yahoo Search