Earlier this week, the Harvard Business Review blog asked, “Did eBay Just Prove that Paid Search Ads Don’t Work?” Apparently the company turned off their AdWords ads in a third of their markets and found no appreciable loss in sales.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Why Local Retailers Should Be Using Open Graph Markup Last November, Chris Sherman highlighted the findings of Forrester research in his article, Forrester Rates..

Last November, Chris Sherman highlighted the findings of Forrester research in his  article, Forrester Rates The Top Large Search Marketing Agencies. As Chris noted, the Forrester report asked and answered this question: “What are the biggest search marketing challenges you expect to face in the…

Google pulled ad blocking app AdBlock Plus. Google says it “interferes with or accesses another service or product in an unauthorized manner”, which Google said is a violation of section 4.4 of its Developer Distribution Agreement

Facebook’s engineering team is sharing some of the technical aspects of Graph Search, including a discussion today about how it indexes and ranks data via its Unicorn framework — the basis of its new Graph Search engine. In today’s blog post, Sriram Sankar talks about… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Facebook’s engineering team is sharing some of the technical aspects of Graph Search, including a discussion today about how it indexes and ranks data via its Unicorn framework — the basis of its new Graph Search engine. In today’s blog post, Sriram Sankar talks about… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Here are a couple current user interface changes that Google appears to be testing. Search Within The first one comes to us from Tecno-Net, and shows Google adding a “Search Within” command to its Google Instant interface.

Last year saw another whirlwind of changes and developments in search technology, with 65 updates to Google’s algorithm in August and September alone. Developing sites that perform well consumes so much energy that it can be easy to get caught up in the tactical day-to-day changes each time search engines do something new. Companies that will continue Author information John Mihalik CTO at Skyword John Mihalik has over 20 years of experience in the software engineering industry

Kaspar Szymanski a Search Quality Strategist based in Google’s Dublin office posted the official one page Google SEO cheat sheet designed to dumb down webmaster and SEO related techniques.

Yesterday Facebook posted another major announcement to its blog.  The long tested redesign of Timeline is beginning to roll out