Without question, Google places and Google + has been somewhat of a nightmare for local business owners. Local business owners rely on their local SEO for business. At the moment, Google is rolling out updates which will begin the process of transferring business from Places to Google + Local

Alma Whitten will leave the search giant after 10 years. Whitten ascended to the position of privacy director in the wake of the furore created by revelations that Google had been collecting private Wi-Fi data via its fleet of Street View cars.

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Squidoo, a huge user generated content web site founded by Seth Godin…

Goodbye Facebook Nearby, hello Facebook Local Search. InsideFacebook points out that the company has renamed its mobile app feature “Nearby” as Facebook “local search.”  Until late last year Nearby was a friend-finder tool.

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…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: How Search Retargeting Is Bridging The Gap Between Search & Display Recently, Harvard Business School published a working paper, Do Display Ads Influence… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Several big name exhibitors once again flocked to SES New York. Companies like Bing, BrightEdge, Conductor, iCrossing, Internet Marketing Ninjas and many more showcased how their tool or services could help attendees be better at their jobs.

In February we reported this but it seems like the test Google is running to show “similar” and “cache” links in a drop down on the right side of the search snippet is starting to grow. Here is a picture: This picture was from a video of it in action by tecnonetblog…