Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Removed The Pirate Bay From Instant Search TorrentFreak reports Google has removed The Pirate Bay from showing up in Google’s search suggestions..

On wednesday SEW will be moderating a panel at BrightEdge Share 12, on the theme of a “New Direction of SEO.” We got a chance to catch up with panelist, Raj Rao from 3M to get his perspective on the future of websites, social media & search engines.

TorrentFreak reports Google has removed The Pirate Bay from showing up in Google’s search suggestions within Google Instant Search. Google Instant Search will auto-complete the search phrase based on search popularity and other factors. Prior to today, Google would auto-complete for the…

Twitter is all alight with the news, jokes, and jabs as websites and email accounts hosted by registration giant, GoDaddy.com go black. Judging by some of the particular twitter babble, a Anonymous hot shot is hoping to catch a little limelight from the attack they claim to have personally launched just to see how much

The dust has settled on both the Republican and Democratic national conventions and, while we don’t know who’ll ultimately get the most votes, it’s clear that Democrats won the day where search activity is concerned. Both Google and Yahoo have analyzed their users’ searches… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Vitaly Borker, formerly of DecorMyEyes.com, was sentenced to four years in federal prison and ordered to pay almost $100,000 in fines and restitution for terrorizing and stalking customers who complained about his counterfeit goods.

In addition to the various government antitrust investigations against Google going on around the world, there is a parallel world of private lawsuits by Google rivals and critics that make similar unfair competition or antitrust claims against Mountain View.

A WebmasterWorld thread has one link builder asking if you ever make the request of your client to submit link requests on your behalf. For example…

The BBC released, what seems like an informal study, on Google’s autocomplete suggestions across the world.

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