Google has quietly disabled the Google Blog Search home page at google.com/blogsearch and redirects it to the Google home page. Now, if you want to filter content based on blog posts, you can do so by going to Google News, clicking on the Search Tools and selecting the “All news” drop… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Last night, Google’s John Mueller was tasked to announce on his personal Google+ account that Google has dropped support for authorship, completely. Yes, completely. They simply removed it from their search results interface and from behind the scenes..

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.

How do you know what link-building is safe in 2014? Is there such a thing

Google announced it has retired its Web Search API this morning, recommending developers use the Custom Search API in its place. Google noted the Customer Search API has a free quota of 100 queries per day. The post Google Retires Its Web Search API appeared first on Search Engine Land.

Even the most diligent PPC managers can let things fall through the cracks. Here are few checklists to use to ensure that your PPC search network campaigns go off without a hitch.

Building real links that make sense requires human interaction. I am a firm believer that websites don’t link to other websites, rather people link to other people. Worthwhile links are those placed as an editorial vote by a human being, not automatically generated by a robot.

Last month we reported that Google would be removing Authorship pictures from search results. Now it has been confirmed by Google’s John Mueller that Authorship information will be removed from search results entirely.

Marketers’ Perceptions of Real-Time Marketing [Infographic] – Some 88% of marketers say real-time marketing is important to 2014, according to a recent survey by Evergage. The company surveyed 100+ marketers across 18 countries to find out what they think about real-time marketing in 2014