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Google and the National Security Agency's possibly secret relationship will remain secret. The Federal Appeals Court has upheld the NSA's decision not to release information confirming or denying if they have a relationship with Google.

With Facebook’s gazillion-dollar* IPO inching closer, Experian Hitwise has shared a number of statistics that provide something of a snapshot about the site and its audience. One of the numbers that stands out is that nine percent of all U.S. internet visits last month were to Facebook....

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Automaker tells ClickZ it will continue advertising on the social site. While General Motors may halt Facebook advertising, according to a Wall Street Journal story today, Ford has a different attitude toward paid promotions on the social site.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Launches Knowledge Graph To Provide Answers, Not Just Links Hinted at for months, Google formally launched its “Knowledge Graph” today. The new...

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Here’s our daily recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Is Mother Nature Causing Stormy Sales? Weather Underground Shows How Weather Impacts Your Bottom Line Is bad weather good for business? Or is...

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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

These are typically signs of an update happening in Google. Maybe a Panda or Penguin refresh? Maybe a new Google bug? Maybe a new penalty or an old one being run again? Maybe Google is testing an algorithm or update? Or maybe it is something completely different or people are on crack?

One of my pet peeves with Google Maps is that it doesn't remember my home or office location, even though I am signed in. So I have to type it out each time I want to check directions or time of travel with traffic...

Zee, a Google AdWords representative, posted in the Google AdWords Help forum an interactive infographic on the five stages of making a decision on your vacation/travel plans.

Exciting news for you local SEO nuts out there that love watching videos - Google's Google Places community manager. Vanessa Schneider is now producing weekly videos recapping the most exciting topics in the Google Places Help forum...

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

I spotted a thread at Google Webmaster Help where a site owner was upset his page was not ranking well. Googler, John Mueller took a look and noticed an unusually high amount of title attributes used on the page...

A WebmasterWorld thread has one SEO noticing that Google has started to purge their index of the free directory submission web sites. He said that about 50% of the free directory submission web sites are no longer to be found in Google...

There is a single post at WebmasterWorld where a senior member is complaining that Bing has reduced the number of pages they have indexed of his site. He said he had about 500,000 URLs URLs indexed and now he only has about 350...

Sam Applegate put together this awesomely funny video mashup of Matt Cutts on how to rank number one in Google. As you can see...

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

There are some reports of major shuffling going on in the Google search results as of yesterday. I believe from the reports that it may be a Penguin update - but I do not have confirmation from Google on this yet. There are WebmasterWorld threads and if you scan the Google Webmaster Help forums you will see tons of threads about ranking changes in the past 24 hours or so.

Yet another Google Maps bug to report but to be fair, they might all be related - this one is of the videos not showing on Google Maps/Places landing pages for businesses. A Google Places Help thread has confirmed reports from Google on the bug...