Google Video has introduced related searches and suggestions in a horizontal layer just below the search box. These suggestions broaden or alter the scope of the original search query. It's a way to drive additional volume and page views on Google video. However, YouTube accounts for 98 percent of video

Brad Garlinghouse, author of the Peanut Butter memo, is out. So is head of search Vish Makhijani. And others. Who will be left? What a mess. Sad, sad mess. Word is that another re-org is on the way. Has to be, because there's no one left to run it, so it all needs to report to one place. Yahoo is very

The Google Webmaster Central Blog announced that they now have APIs for developers and webmasters to tap into. You can now access some of the data you see in Google Webmaster Tools through an API. API features currently include: Click to continue reading...

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: Search In Pictures: New Yodelers, Sergey In Space & Ask.com's Got Milk In this week's Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing

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. Click to continue reading...

By the way, we had our second webmaster live chat yesterday. I think almost everyone had a good time. It was free for anyone to dial in, and hundreds of people showed up. Thanks to the Google presenters and everyone that asked questions or talked in the chat. I got a chance to answer lots of questions

If you’re a site owner, webmaster, SEO, or otherwise have an interest in website metrics, I think you’re going to like Google Trends for Websites. It’s almost as addictive to me as Google Maps is for, you know, normal people. You’re probably familiar with regular Google Trends,

Google has launched a major addition to Google Trends named Trends for Web Sites. Trends for Web Sites extends Google Trends by enabling you to search for web site addresses, as opposed to just searching for trends by keyword. R.J. Pittman, Google's Director of Product Management, told me that by entering

Google has a special logo up today, in honor of the summer solstice, AKA the first day of summer. The solstice is when the "Earth's axis is most oriented toward or away from the Sun, causing the Sun to reach its northernmost and southernmost extremes," according to Wikipedia Danny is actually out

Next week, we have another doubleheader for our sister company, Search Marketing Now: On Tuesday, join Gord Hotckiss and James Lamberti for a webcast on "Search as a Strategic Planning Tool." How can you use search to better understand your customer demographic - or to size your market opportunity?

Another Friday marks the end of another busy week. We celebrated Father's Day and had a nice hot (and a bit rainy) week over here. And yourselves? Father's Day Sunday marked Father's Day in just about every country (which is...

The newspaper business is slowly fading away and out of relevancy.  By the time a story gets printed, it’s already broken in the online world.  Newspapers are facing dwindling subscriber bases, and slashed advertising spending, and drastic changes are being made.  My hometown paper, the Plain

A couple of extra bits I thought should be shared today: Free stuff for bloggers. I’ve just had an email from my friend Chris (LG Blog) that Berocca are sending out a load of freebies to bloggers to help us de-stress. The Blogger Relief Pack includes: Stress ball USB “stress” button Bubble

We first tried the show at the regular time on Tuesday but ran into some issues with Blogtv. Soon after I got a call from Ustream CEO Brad Hunstable who also happens to be a huge MMA fan! We talked about MMA stuff and then he sent me instructions on how to do picture in picture video. Works pretty good.

Following months of fending off a Microsoft takeover, Yahoo announced last week that they had entered into a non-exclusive advertising agreement with Google. Much in the same way many were concerned about a Yahoo-Microsoft merger, there are already those skeptical of a Yahoo-Google arrangement, including

Google.com is an entirely different beast from Google.co.uk -- and webmasters have taken the time to discuss some interesting observations on the .co.uk end. Some are seeing results jumping around with major reshuffling. On a related note, some are seeing...

Top Microsoft officials has expressed that the company is not going on a buying spree of other internet properties after it’s bid failed to reach a Yahoo-Microsoft deal.Amidst the rumors that Microsoft is planning to acquire some other targets such as Facebook, AOL among other smaller internet

STORG.net is a site that has a collection of stories.  As far as I can tell they are just random stories from people. Not really seeing the point, but I guess if you’re bored at work one day maybe that would entertain you for a bit. Thanks for the shirt guys. If you would like to see your website

So, you want to keep a great Google AdWords quality score. What do you need to consider in your ads? AdWordsPro.Sarah tells us in a Google Groups thread. There are six things to consider. CTR: The higher, the better. Account...