A few days ago, Microsoft quietly launched their own social network named So.cl. Yea, it is a lot like Google+, Facebook and all of them in a Microsoft wrapper.

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 Toby Murdock This post was originally in YouMoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Microsoft Turns Off Streetside Imagery In Germany Over Photo Blurring Concerns Here’s a shocker*: Microsoft’s Streetside service has hit a bumpy road…

Google is testing the insertion of a new line of text located above the top block of paid search advertisements. The “Ads related to” notation appears for certain search queries. A similar test appeared last year but was never fully rolled out.

Here’s a shocker*: Microsoft’s Streetside service has hit a bumpy road in Germany. The company says it’s shut down Streetside imagery in Germany after complaints about the way the company was handling blurring requests.

There is an ad running on this site that pitches “Anti Penguin Link Building,” well Penguin is spelled Pinguin in the ad (maybe German). Have we learned nothing over the years? Seriously pitching Anti Penguin Link Building services?

April 24th 2012 is a day that will be remembered as the launch of one of the biggest attacks against Webspam by Google’s Search Quality Team: the Penguin Update. Although Google claims that only 3.1% of the search queries were affected, many webmasters believe that this update has caused more damage than the Panda update

If search volume is any indication, Americans plan to spend their 2012 vacations at Disney or in Las Vegas, according to an evaluation of over 2.4 billion of the top travel-related queries performed by digital marketing intelligence firm AdGooroo.

Google has announced a new version of the Google Search iPhone app. The new version is version 2.0 and was completely redesigned focusing on speed, usability, new features and making it beautiful. Here are the main new changes you will find in version 2.0: Complete App Redesign Full Screen Mode…