Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:

Report: Microsoft To Up Bid For Yahoo To $34 Per ShareSilicon Alley Insider reacts to Wall Street Analyst Mark Mahaney’s note that he anticipates Microsoft will raise its bid for Yahoo from $31 to $34 […]

Silicon Alley Insider reacts to Wall Street Analyst Mark Mahaney’s note that he anticipates Microsoft will raise its bid for Yahoo from $31 to $34 dollars per share. Barring an 11th hour alternative for Yahoo this should move toward Yahoo’s public position that the original Microsoft bid undervalued the company. It also should please […]

Google founders: $1 salaries, $13B in stock from CNN Money reports Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, along with CEO Eric Schmidt, renewed their contracts again at a $1 per year salary, in 2007. You would think that with the falling stock price, the founders might want some extra cash? But the […]

Yahoo! has decided to join Google’s OpenSocial .
OpenSocial is a common API (coding standard) for web site plug-ins that makes it possible for them to work on multiple websites.
The tremendous success of Facebook has made such standards increasingly important, as owners of social web sites would like to see as many applications as […]

Google adjusts it search box to the length of your query.
Sometimes innovation is about the little things that makes life a little bit easier.
Google Operating System has found that Google will change the size of the search box after you have entered a long search query.
That is: the longer box will appear on […]

by Jennifer Laycock
No doubt some of you looked at your calendars last week and realized you’d missed the $850 early bird price for our upcoming Small Business Marketing Unleashed conference in Houston. Don’t sweat it, we’ve got you covered. We’ve spent the last six months building the perfect conference for you. We know how busy […]

by Scott Buresh
It’s a common question that companies who are considering hiring a search engine optimization company often face - is this something that we can do in-house? More importantly, can we do this in-house and get the same results that an expert search engine optimization company would provide?
As this article will demonstrate, […]

by Jennifer Laycock
While social media is still the topic du jour at major search conferences, I’m still hearing a lot of buzz about blogs. While Technorati is tracking more than 121 million blogs these days, we’re still no where near the saturation point. The issue now is convincing small businesses of the need to consider […]

by Stoney deGeyter
Link building sucks. There I said it. Of course it’s been said before and most people who have even the slightest bit of experience with it can tell you the same. It’s tedious. It’s monotonous. It’s mundane.
True link building is marketing. But that doesn’t make it any more interesting. For every link […]

Last week, comScore data showed that Google was sending more traffic to its own properties than it had been, leading some to worry if it was becoming more like a portal than a search engine. But that data appears to miss the larger picture, where Google is sending even more traffic to news sites than […]