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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Waiting for a Facebook search engine. Eventually, it’ll arrive, says Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Posted by Kevin Graves This post was originally in YouMoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. On February 12th, 2009, Google began to support the link rel=”canonical” tag, which was later adopted by Bing and Yahoo, for specifying a preferred version of a URL.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Must-Have Browser Tools For Link Builders Of all the tasks associated with content advocacy (I have never actually liked the term link building, and my business…

Germany’s Bettina Wulff is taking Google to court over suggestions she is a prostitute in Google autocomplete results. Google can remove piracy autocomplete suggestions; should victims of defamation have the same protection?

Of all the tasks associated with content advocacy (I have never actually liked the term link building, and my business card has never included those words, plus doesn’t ‘content advocacy’ just sound better than link building?), there are a few tasks that are a genuine PITA.

Make sense of the Facebook Business Page Timeline using this guide from Hubspot.

Microsoft has rebranded their search ad service from Microsoft adCenter to Bing Ads. Part of that, they are naming the Yahoo / Microsoft Search Alliance as the “Yahoo…

What backlinks are safe to have after Google’s Penguin update?