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Implementing an optimized mobile site is becoming increasingly important for many publishers, as smartphones are becoming increasingly pervasive. Here’s how to think about Googlebot, Googlebot-Mobile and your mobile web site.

Is Google’s decision to charge sites or apps using Google Maps API for high volume usage beginning to backfire? Apple and Foursquare have both severed ties with Google Maps, instead opting to use a free alternative, OpenStreetMap

The majority of search engine users are not OK with tracking used to personalize search results or offer targeted advertisements, though satisfaction with the results offered is at an all-time high. It seems user education is in order.

Windows Phone owners who have downloaded the new Google Search App from the Windows Phone Marketplace are giving it an overwhelming thumbs down thus far, because it strays from the Metro-style theme, image search is broken, and it’s slow and buggy.

Google has updated its Chrome browser, fixing an issue that was first uncovered at its Pwnium browser hacking contest. A Russian security researcher won $60,000 for demonstrating his exploit at the hackathon solely focused on Chrome hacks

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