YouTube’s new Trends Map will be a valuable tool for marketers who want to keep up on trends and shares, especially when wanting to look at specific gender or age demographics, as well as what is popular in different regions and cities.

As you may have seen across the news, Google changes the label on Google.ps from “Palestinian Territories” to “Palestinian…

Despite effectively renewing its search deal with Microsoft recently, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Yahoo wants a way to break that deal. Why didn’t Yahoo take the opportunity it just had? I suspect that technically and financially, it couldn’t.

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

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Google Maps To Get A Major Design Overhaul Alex Chitu reports Google is testing a new Google Maps interface, possibly to be launched next week at Google I/O

Alex Chitu reports Google is testing a new Google Maps interface, possibly to be launched next week at Google I/O. The new interface is a complete and major overhaul of the current Google Maps user interface. The design and interface changes touch everything from the map colors, icons and text…

Although Google dominates many of the local markets around the world, and is commonly known as the global search engine leader, there are places where it struggles to gain any form of traction. In South Korea, the biggest player in this space is Naver, and it hogs around 70% of the market, which is a larger share than Author information Kenji Schautzer The post An Introduction to Naver and SEO in Korea appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

The Search Alliance lives on. Yahoo and Microsoft have extended their revenue-per-search guarantee for one year, an extension of a partnership that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer had hinted would not continue when the current one expired March 31.

When it comes to SEO, I often meet two types of webmasters. The ones that know nothing about how search engines work and the ones that obsess over the smallest SEO concerns. There is often never a balance..