(Updated) Has Digg Been Penalized by Google?

Update: Matt just tweeted to me with this link to the explanation.

Google pushing search results even further down?

Just found this thread on traffic planet.

Bing Jumps On Board with Authorship

Bing.com has jumped on the authorship bandwagon and is now showing author photos in their search results.

Google Reader to die

The Google Reader is about to die.

Google penalises BBC

Google shows how stupid it is by issuing a penalty against the BBC website - allegedly

Ebay says Google Ads don't work

Reuters reports on Ebay's study showing that Google advertising doesn't work as well as it did.

Google Gets Slap on Wrist For Stealing Passwords

Back in 2010 Google admitted to using WIFI receivers installed on their Google "Street View" cars to download d

Weekly Search Challenges at SearchReSearch

Have you tried joining any of the challenges here? That's one of those rare things that make me sad I have too little time.

Why teens are tiring of Facebook

CNET thinks Facebook is rapidly losing their younger audience, not least because teens want something toca ll their own, without being snooped on by parents:

Google Expected To Fire 1,200 Employees

In conjunction with prior layoffs last year, Google is expected to lay off 1,200 employees with in t

And I quote: SEO as it’s present now is holding the internet back (?)

There's an interesting article that brings up a lot of interesting questions about our profession: Why Web Professional

Search Engine For Tracking Google Spam

Using the Google How Search Works, where Google shares live examples of spam they removed from their index, I created a search engine to search those examples.

Google Plus and Authorship rankings: The good old "SEO" method works best?

There are a few things we have been taught about seeing "Authorship-enhanced" (with the photo) results in Google search:

Do brands really need to become customer's friends?

Lee Odden just shared an eBook today talking about social media predictions and he has a

Google Buys SEM Agency, Channel Intelligence, For $125 Million

Channel Intelligence, an angecy that specializes in helping clients preform well in Google's shopping/product listings, has been

Are we forced to market our faces?

It has never been a huge question for me: I've been always marketing my personal photo rather than a logo or an avatar (in fact, I can't even change it for anything that could reflect my current ag

What to do if you have multiple business locations?

There's a great article by Miriam Ellis on creating and optimizing landing pages for local search if you have several locations.

Code Found In YouTube App Confirms Future "PayPerView" Channels

Analysis of code found in the new YouTube Andro

Social Media use between Man United vs Man City

Great use of a widget! Also great use of links and social data to analyse entities..

How to Build Your Presence With Reverse Guest Posting

Pretty good article on doing the opposite of what almost every other SEO is doing at the moment: