Remember April Fools this year where Google had a Google Maps Pokémon challenge and you had to catch and find all the pokemon, 151, to win…

Google announced a new ad format for Google AdSense display ad units named magazine ads. So instead of the display ad looking like a banner ad with animation or various popping colors, magazine ads are very minimalistic…

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.

Google co-founder, Larry Page, issued his annual founders’ letter yesterday reflecting on the state of Google and advancements they’ve made in 2013. Here are some of the main highlights from his letter. Advancements In Search Larry starts off by saying that he believes Google is staying true to its mission, which is “to develop services that significantly improve the lives of as many people as possible.”  There are over 100 billion searches a month, 15% of which have never been seen before

An interesting Google Webmaster Help thread has a webmaster who has a manual action, he said he removed the content, and even left the page blank but the manual action won’t go away. Google’s John Mueller explained why in an interesting way..

Jade Wang, Community Manager for Google Places, announced via Google+ yesterday that new social features and multi-admin functionality will be coming to the Google Places bulk location management tool. Here are some more details about the new features: Status of your locations on Maps: Google will now show you a column that describes the status of each location on Maps. At a glance you will see which of your locations are live, unverified, have errors or data conflicts, are duplicates, or are pending review.

Bing is getting smarter today with the addition of food- and drug-related entities to its library of facts. The new at-a-glance information for these searches will appear in the Snapshot area on the right side of Bing’s search results. In some cases, like the hamburger search shown below, the…

Chinese search giant Baidu has stolen away the head of Google’s “deep learning” project, dubbed “Google Brain.” Andrew Ng is an artificial intelligence expert, Stanford professor and founder of online learning company Coursera. Google Brain is a machine learning..

Below is my interview with Cristian Ángel Rennella, the co-founder of elMejorTrato.com, a Latin American car insurance and loan comparison website. He has been an entrepreneur since 2008. Author Note: Cristian’s first language isn’t English, so please excuse any of my translation errors