Over the next few weeks, Google will be migrating AdWords campaigns that don’t use any advanced features from “All Features” to “Standard” type campaigns. The change applies only to “Search Network Only” and “Search and Display Networks”… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Several months ago we covered discussion around a patent document filed by Google named ranking documents…

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…

Bing announced today a new version of their Bing It On Challenge, an online campaign launched last September that offers users a side-by-side comparison of Bing and Google search results. In the latest Bing It On Challenge, Bing asks users to perform five separate search queries on BingItOn.com and… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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 Ignites Controversy By Using “Palestine” On Homepage Google has been at the center of heated geo-political controversy before, usually around disputed… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

‘Have you got a Google Account? Are you having an access to the various different services offered by Google? If yes is the answer to the above two questions then a third very important question arises, what is the fate of the documents in your account, emails sent or received, & photos that you have Author information Alan Smith lan Smith is an avid tech blogger with vast experience in various IT domains, currently associated with SPINX Inc.

@tecnonetblog, a man who spots probably 2 – 5 Google experiments per week, noticed a new one where Google is not displaying the search results URL in the search results interface…

Google has removed the link to Places search. The link, which had been located in Google’s “More” drop-down menu option, is no longer there, meaning local businesses can only be found via search (paid or organic), Google+ Local, or Google Maps.

Several months ago, Google launched the Google EMD Update that went after “low-quality exact-match domains in search results,” according to Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts. Since then..

It has been a pretty busy month over at Google, not much in terms of “official” updates but a lot of discussion about changes on both the algorithm side and user interface side. Plus, we learned a lot from Google comments..