Google has largely ignored Bing’s Scroogled campaign, the one attacking it over the pay-for-play change to Google Shoppping & Gmail privacy. But today, Google search chief Amit Singhal pushed back a bit, saying Bing perhaps should focus on making better products rather than attacking… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

The growth of mobile search is like seeing a second child grow up.

If you want your content to rank in Google’s search results, start building your author authority now. Author Rank is going to be a big deal. Here are some social signals Google can potentially obtain and use that supports the notion of Author Rank

One of the very interesting things going on in search is the phenomenon of “predictive search” or personalized recommendations based on a range of user data inputs (i.e., behavior, context, etc).

Had a bad experience purchasing from an online merchant? Google says it wants to protect searchers from that, and it may crackdown later this year with changes intended to prevent bad merchants from ranking well. The news came during the “How to Rank Better in Google & Bing” session..

If you start a blog today with the intention of becoming the next Lifehacker, Problogger, or Copyblogger, you’re likely to fail.

Today is International Women’s Day and like always, Google has a logo to honor the women around the world. They had one in 2012, 2011 and 2010…

There are reports in the Google Web Search Help forum that Google Alerts is not functioning as it was last year. Searchers are saying they are getting much fewer search notifications from Google Alerts than they were months prior…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…