Rick Klau of Google Ventures posted a video from Google’s co-founder, Sergey Brin speech he gave last fall at Google Ventures CEO Summit. He explained a story that most people do not know, how Google really got started. Sergey said that they had an idea to make it easier for people to order pizza from local pizza stores using the Internet.

Google is not shy when it comes to testing new ad formats for Google Adsense.

A Google Doodle today celebrates Nicolaus Copernicus, the Renaissance astronomer who pushed forward the (at the time) radical idea that Earth wasn’t the center of the universe.

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

Posted by Mackenzie Fogelson If you own a business and are just getting started with social media, have a presence but not quite sure how to grow it, or are working on behalf of a client in this situation, you’re probably wondering how other businesses got here: Or here: From a starting point like this: Or even this: When you’re getting started with building a community around your business, you aren’t really starting from nothing. You can leverage the people, blogs, knowledge sources, and communities that already exist and that are relevant to your business and your industry. Start with what’s already been built and go from there.

Last Friday, Lars Rasmussen, Facebook’s Directory of Engineering, did an AMA (ask me anything) on Reddit to discuss the ins-and-outs of Graph Search. Lars answered 20 questions from fellow Redditors shedding some light on the history, importance and technology behind Graph Search.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Search Engines More Trusted Than Social Media For News & Information [Study] When it comes to getting general news and information, consumers worldwide put as… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

When it comes to getting general news and information, consumers worldwide put as much trust in search engines as they do in traditional media — and more in both than they do in social media.

Back in December we reported that there was an issue with the Google search stories video creator and since then…

Toward the end of 2012, I read an interesting article theorizing that Google will be crawling APIs instead of mobile websites in the future.