In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Google Drinks: Source: Google+ Yahoo Soup: Source: Flickr Panda Food:… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Interesting week in search, ending with a Google search engineer blowing up on accusations that when Google’s search results suck…

@VinceBlackham tweeted a very funny video the other day and I thought I would share it with you. It is a video called “She’s Too Good For Everyone” by Break.com

Social Media Marketing: The long term and short term value with Avinash Kaushik This interview from #SESNY features Google evangelist Avinash Kaushik on monitoring social media value.  Kaushik stresses that social media should be about quantifying your efforts.  Companies must determine what they did that ended in specific results, and the economic value that was created due to these efforts

Google engineer, Ryan Moulton who knows “all the ranking signals” yells out about accusations that Google’s search results suck because Google is trying to make more money. He said that when they suck, it is because the algorithms are stupid – not because Google wants to make more money. I think he said it better than Matt Cutts

Glassdoor has released their 2012 survey of best places to work in 2012 and Google has beat Facebook for the first time in four years in that survey.

In the ongoing wake of Search Plus Your World, there has been a lot of piling on the ‘beat down Google’ bandwagon.

Today’s Google Logo is to remember Spanish painter known for his work in Cubism art with a Google logo resembling the art he helped innovate. Juan Gris was born 125 years ago today and died 40 years later from renal failure on May 11, 1927.

I learned a great lesson from a friend long ago. She said I need to be able to track each hour of my day and make sure I am paid for each hour. My time and your time is valuable, but many clients are “meeting happy”.

Recently, Mozilla announced that they are testing default encrypted Google searches on the Firefox browser. The change, which is expected to reach all Firefox users within the next several months, will severely limit publishers’ analytics data related to how Google searchers are finding their websites.