Forget the idea that Pinterest is all about fashion photos, cute animals and inspirational messages. The company says it’s now hosting more than a billion Place Pins across four million Place Boards. Together, all this represents more than 300 unique countries and territories.

Google has partnered with ESPN to deliver video highlights for World Cup related searches. Those searching for World Cup information may see links to ESPN clips within special informational boxes that now show up at the top of Google’s search results, as Google shared today.

This is a session recap from Marcus Tober’s presentation on “The Search (R)evolution” from our June 13 San Francisco conference, “SEO, Content Marketing and Analytics: 3 Pillars of Online Marketing Success in 2014“. Searchmetrics publishes annual reports about ranking factors and ranking correlations, comparing the current year to the previous year.

Please excuse the tired video recap but I do cover some important search topics.

As many of our loyal readers know, we syndicate one Buffer blog post per week. We love the folks over at Buffer and I reached out to Courtney Seiter, Buffer’s new head of content marketing, about her experiences with Buffer so far and what else is going on with one of the most talked-about social media companies online today

Matt Cutts, Google’s head of webspam, made some important announcements as well as sharing some interesting insight into an upcoming algorithm change that will take effect by week’s end. Announcements Matt encouraged everyone to circle back and revisit Webmaster tools as many new features have been added to help webmasters everywhere.  Here are a few of the things Matt pointed out: Fetch and Render as Googlebot – This feature has been added to show webmasters a thumbnail of what their page looks like to Google.

This SEO ranking factors session has become a much-anticipated tradition at SMX Advanced, as the substantial early morning crowd in attendance this year testified. Each year, a panel of SEO data experts present their up-to-date findings, test results, and best guesses as to what factors are primary… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

And the winner of this year’s European Search Personality award is… Kristjan Mar Hauksson! With Kristjan being from Iceland, it seems the time is due for a focus on the Nordics. Those who know the region may be thinking fjords, mountains, forests, lakes, volcanoes, kings and castles

Everyone in SEO talks about it: authority. It’s the key measurement for ranking, right?

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.