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

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Amazon’s New Kindle Fire Tablets Use Bing As Default Search Engine Ubergizmo is reporting that Bing (not Google) will be the default search engine for the… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Google Snack, Strawberry Pandas: Source: Twitter Google Street View Cube:… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Ubergizmo is reporting that Bing (not Google) will be the default search engine for the Amazon browser on the new Kindle tablets.  (We were able to confirm this with Microsoft directly earlier this evening.) The original Kindle Fire used Google. Amazon is likely to sell several million of these new…

In the wake of Google’s Panda algorithm update, its cadre of human search quality raters has a new task: giving Google specific quality ratings for individual landing pages. The new “Page Quality Rating Guidelines” section adds a whopping 32 pages to the handbook that Google… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

The New York Times reports Vitaly Borker, the merchant who boasted of being abusive to customers and claimed, inaccurately, that such behavior had a side benefit of producing good rankings in Google, has been sentenced. The sentencing was to four years in federal prison and ordered to pay..

Trekkies and geeks worldwide will certainly rejoice at today’s Google Doodle – complete with animations and its own storyline – that celebrates the 46th anniversary of the original “Star Trek” TV series, which originally aired September 8, 1966.

I’m planning to record some new webmaster questions next week. I made a Google Moderator page where you can submit topics and vote for different questions

Google has just uploaded to all their home pages (regional ones) the 46th Anniversary Star Trek Google Logo/Doodle. Typically Google will load the logo on the anniversary day, so in the U.S., it would be when the clock strikes midnight tonight..

Multi-touch attribution models: These aren’t your granddaddy’s conversion metrics. The standard way of measuring conversions is changing, as inbound marketers now have the tools available to measure ROI properly without investing too much time or resources.