Bing For Schools officially launched today, a program created by Bing to promote digital literacy to students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The  program was initially announced in June, inviting school administrators to register for the free service that gives participating schools ad-free..

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 Responds To #GoogleGate: AdWords Account Manager’s Accidental Voice Mail Recording Earlier this week, Martin MacDonald, inbound marketing director at…

AgoraPulse released its monthly “barometer” measuring Facebook page metrics, which showed the average engagement on posts for pages with less than 10,000 fans is 6.1 percent, while the average for pages that have 100,000 fans or more is 4.9 percent.

Earlier this week, Martin MacDonald, inbound marketing director at Expedia EAN, in a post on his website titled “#GoogleGate – Can you Trust Google?,” embedded a voice mail recording a Google AdWords account manager unknowingly left for a client. Presumably thinking he’d…

YouTube announced that you can now continue to watch the videos on your YouTube app while conducting searches on new videos. Google’s YouTube said…

Bing announced on their search blog today that they are launching Bing for Schools, a program that will partner with school districts across the country to provide students with a safer learning experience online.

Trying to get your head around Google authorship? The Google Webmaster Central blog has posted a new FAQ designed to provide some answers

Google has made it clear that web content should be created for the user and not for the sole purpose of ranking in SERP’s. Why not take it one step further than most and design a website that even the blind can utilize? In the United States, approximately 20 percent experience some form of disability and […] Author information Leslie Duncan Leslie Duncan is an Orlando SEO Specialist for Web Solutions of America.

A Moz blog post gained big attention after proclaiming an “amazing correlation with higher search rankings” and quickly prompted Google’s Distinguished Engineer to debunk the overall idea that Google +1’s lead to higher search rankings.

Twitter is launching a new feature. When someone tweets about something newsworthy, Twitter will go and include links to the news story below the tweets, even when a specific URL to the news story hasn’t been included in the tweets.