Google pays tribute to moms this Mother’s Day, with a new animated logo that brings letters of the logo to life as Mom receives a flower and hugs from her kids. Google also featured “super-user” Google+, YouTube and Google Play moms on their blog

Facebook is testing a feature to see if users will pay a couple bucks to have their posts more prominently featured on the social network. The paid user posts would be placed atop news feeds and be marked as “Highlighted.”

Apple’s upcoming iOS 6 release will be reportedly be headlined by the debut of Apple’s own mapping application, replacing the Google Maps application which has been part of the platform since the release of the first iPhone.

The judge who is hearing the case said that the most Oracle may end with as a result of that infringement was statutory damages – which are limited to just $150,000. Oracle had originally been seeking billions of dollars in damages from Google.

Posted by MozCTO Hello, I am Anthony Skinner , the CTO of MozLand! Many of you were affected by several SEOmoz tool issues that happened last week, unfortunately all colliding into one colossal day of craziness on May 3rd. We want to first apologize for any inconveniences or problems that these issues caused you. The good news is that our awesome engineers fixed these problems quickly, but we want to share an update of what happened, how we fixed it, and what we’re doing to prevent “colossal days of craziness” from ever happening again.

You often don’t find Googlers talking much about PageRank outside of to confirm any questions about it…

I confirmed yesterday that Microsoft is closing down the discontinued GOOG 411 back in 2010 and now Bing is shutting their service.

Apple’s Siri search feature for the iPhone 4S thinks the Nokia Lumia 900 is the best phone ever? Actually, it’s Wolfram Alpha that thinks this, based on all of four user reviews.

Advertisers have long been able to simulate the results of bid changes at the keyword and ad group level, and, now, they can do so at the campaign level, as well, Google has announced. The change will allow advertisers to model changes even when there’s not enough data to do so at the keyword..