Facebook’s new promoted posts are an excellent way to buy your way into more news feeds and drive visits to your content.

It is not all that uncommon for Google to show a searcher a page of search results in a language that the searcher has never seen before.

Nextag isn’t ranking on Google, so their search results must be biased, argues CEO Jeffrey Katz.

The online ad industry raked in more than ever in a first quarter this year, though the rate of growth has slowed since Q1 2011.

Bing announced they now have Encyclopedia Britannica answers directly in their search results.

About 15 months ago, Google introduced a block results feature in the search results user interface. That feature went missing when Google launched Search Plus Your World earlier this year.

Although the local search landscape has changed pretty significantly, the fundamental elements of ranking well in Google’s local search results haven’t strayed dramatically from past years. That’s one of the main takeaways from the 2012 Local Search Ranking Factors report… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Apple Siri To Add Sports, Restaurants, Reservations, Movies & App Search Apple at their World Wide Developer Conference today announced iOS6 with some really… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Social shopping app Glimpse aims to fill in the gaps in data collected by Facebook and retailers themselves by marrying their crawl data with Facebook’s Open Graph, allowing for activity analysis, social recommendations, and a fun way to shop.