Google’s Matt Cutts, depicted here in an April Fools style animated GIF, posted a video on how Google goes about evaluating new search algorithms…

Yonatan Zunger, Chief Architect of Google+, shed some light on a new feature many have been noticing showing up on their Google+ profiles. If you haven’t seen it yet, on your Google+ personal profile you will now notice a view count underneath your name and location. In a post made on Google+, Zunger states he’s […] Author information Matt Southern Matt Southern is a marketing, communications and public relations professional

You’re going to hear a lot of rejoicing when this news spreads: Google has returned the “search nearby” feature to Google Maps.

ClickZ Live New York kicked off with a keynote from Randi Zuckerberg on the top trends in tech and new media that are influencing the minds and behaviors of modern consumers and gave insights on how to engage, convert, and delight consumers.

The opening keynote at ClickZ Live New York started off with an introduction from John Barnes, Managing Director, Digital & Tech at Incisive Media. The featured speaker, Randi Zuckerberg (brother to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in case you’ve been off the grid for a few years) provided an overview of her experience at Facebook during the early days and highlighted what made the initial DNA of the company work to help it grow. She also shared some good humor and a list of 10 new media trends that are posed to impact consumers and the way we market to them.

If you try to search Yahoo News for [new york], you will be out of luck. Yahoo News is returning an error that reads “we did not find results for: new york.” Here is a screen shot: Other states do work, such as Florida or California, but not New York

If you didn’t have enough April Fools day fun today, here is one more for you. In today’s video from Matt Cutts, Matt answered a real question from Dave in the UK, who asked, “When will Google stop updating its search results?” The answer was never! And to prove his point,..

Google has announced the ability for webmasters to now track indexed URLs for each protocol – HTTP and HTTPS – as well as for verified subdirectories. The change will make it easier for site owners to monitor different sections of their website.

Yesterday, there was all this craze about Google+ adding a new metric named “views” to your profile.

What if you were penalized or deindexed in Google?