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. From Search Engine Land: Big Win For DuckDuckGo: Apple Adding To Safari As Private Search Option DuckDuckGo, the search engine that positions itself as a completely secure and private…

If you have the All-In-One SEO Pack WordPress plugin installed, your website may be at risk of being compromised if it’s not updated. A update was released on Sunday that patches two vulerabilities. Over the weekend, Web security firm Sucuri announced that they discovered two security flaws in All in One SEO Pack plugin.

If you use the popular “All in One SEO Pack” WordPress plugin, you should update immediately. Vulnerabilities have been discovered that could get you kicked out of Google’s search results, or leave you open to JavaScript injection attacks.

DuckDuckGo, the search engine that positions itself as a completely secure and private search engine, is getting a big boost.

Anyone else have @Adwords conversion tracking fail over the weekend?

As early as last Friday, Google reported slower levels of activity from China. It is speculated that the disruption is due to the 25th anniversary of the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations around Tiananmen Square in Beijing

When identifying influencers as part of your social media and content marketing program, topic match and popularity are not enough to qualify an influencer as “effective”. By effective, I mean the ability and likelihood that a person can actually inspire action amongst a community. To determine the effectiveness dimension, it’s important to use tools  that look at other criteria such as the extent to which people respond and take action in response to a person. When it comes to Twitter, things like ReTweets and sharing of links are signals worth looking at

I honestly love seeing this because it somewhat upsets me to see, I know weird… But Google’s John Mueller responded to a webmaster in a Google Webmaster Help thread about him losing 90% of his “indexing” after the Panda 4 .0 update. He said…

The form launched Friday and reportedly spurred 12,000 search removal requests. It allows users in all 28 European Union countries, as well as four additional non-EU countries, to request removals, following the “right to be forgotten” ruling.