Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

Google is awaiting a judge’s decision on damages before it decides what to do after losing a defamation case over its search results in Australia. A jury in the supreme court of the Australian state Victoria, ruled Tuesday that Google is liable for defamation because its search results…

In the third quarter of 2012, click share on the Yahoo Bing Network rose to 21.3%, the fourth quarter in a row the network has posted gains. Google dropped to 78.7% in share, though based on click traffic, Google still outpaced YBN. These are stats from the Search Agency’s State of Paid..

Google has released a new desktop version of Google Earth (version 7) that includes features previously released in its mobile version.

The SEW Weekly search and social marketing radio show kicks off Thursday, November 1st at 1pm EST on WebmasterRadio.fm. Tune in for search news and an in-house SEO panel with special guests Simon Heseltine from AOL and Covario’s Dave Rohrer

Create great content! Create great content! Are you sick of hearing this catchphrase yet?

Type in almost any horror movie title and you will see bats hanging from Google’s Knowledge Graph ‘card’ results. Almost any, because the SEW team tried a bunch of different results and not every known horror film triggered results.

At SMX East in October 2012, I presented on mobile landing pages at the popular iConvert session. Given the surge of interest in mobile marketing, and in particular, mobile landing pages, I thought it would be a good time to cover some of the key points from that presentation here. Slideshare: The…

My fellow Americans, I’d like to introduce my latest Halloween costume: Matt Romney! My five-point plan for the Mitt Romney Halloween costume went like this: Start with a suit and tie. Put a little silver in my sideburns. My wife used some silver and white eye shadow