We know Google has required AdWords advertisers to set up privacy policies as well as AdSense publishers.

Google’s about to make a change to how it reports referrer information for those using its Chrome browser. As a result, some analytics programs may begin listing search visitors as if they instead came directly from Google without doing a search, though major packages will probably adjust OK….

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.

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The new Social Reports in Google Analytics compile and analyze social activity data from more than 400 social services, with advanced tracking of their Social Data Hub partner sites.

Wikipedia doesn’t pwn Google nearly as much as the SEO industry thinks it does. In fact, according to a new Conductor study, Wikipedia showed up on the first page of Google’s search results only 46 percent of the time in a study using 2,000 unique keywords

Some users have been reporting bugs with Google search, specifically with Google Image search. A Google Web Search Help thread has several complaints all from the images not being displayed to the image search filter options not working…

Small business owners who have just begun their SEO campaign will find that there is no end to the depth and complexity inherent in search engine optimization. Many companies try to take a do-it-yourself mentality to SEO implementation that ends with them sloppily stringing together popular search terms or stuffing keywords on contextually irrelevant web Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal