Bing will soon debut a big search results redesign. Rather than forcing social results into the main organic results, Bing will unveil a three-column design with organic results as the main pane, "entities" in the middle, and social on the right.

While Google's Penguin update, unnatural link warnings, two Panda refreshes, and a parking domain classifier issue made headlines in April, Google announced that is launched more than 50 other changes to its algorithm during the month.

Google's Penguin Update, much like Panda last year, has angered SEOs and webmasters, most of whom say they have played by Google's rules. Anchor text diversity and link relevancy may be two key factors of Penguin, according to more early analysis.

What began with chalk drawings on unused advertising panels in New York City subways ended with international superstardom and a life cut prematurely short, all within the space of a decade. Today's Google Doodle celebrates Keith Haring.

Are you angry and looking for answers about why your rankings vanished after Google released its Penguin update? One common factor thus far appears to be the signals of links that are pointing to your website, early analysis indicates.

Google has named its latest web spam algorithmic update Penguin. For those who believe their search rankings has wrongly hit by this update, or if you're seeing spam Google missed, Matt Cutts has announced the arrival of a feedback form.

Google has sold its collaborative 3D modeling tool and team to Trimble, a GPS provider. Google said SketchUp saw 30 million activations within the last year, according to a SketchUp blog post announcing the deal. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.

Google today filed a 17-page response to the Federal Communications Commission )FCC(, accusing the government agency of causing delays that slowed down the Street View Wi-Fi data grab investigation and resulted in Google paying a $25,000 fine.

Google is bidding farewell to another batch of products that have failed to catch on. Google Related, One Pass, and Patent Search are among the latest products Google announced is sending to live on a farm upstate where they can run and play.

Google's long anticipated over-optimization penalty is now live. Except Google called it an algorithmic update that's targeting web spam - a.k.a., keyword stuffing and link schemes, in the process causing some big search ranking upheavals.

How do you honor a man responsible for helping to develop the zipper? If you're Google, you design a homepage with a giant interactive zipper in the middle. The latest Google Doodle honors engineer Gideon Sundback, born on this date in 1880.

Flowers are blooming on Google's home page today. The Google Doodle celebrates Earth Day, which began in 1970 and continues to be observed yearly on April 22 to continue raising awareness about environmental issues in more than 190 countries.

Several websites vanished from Google's index earlier this week. It wasn't the much rumored over-optimization boogeyman. Rather, it was a bug involving Google's classifier for parked domains, as Matt Cutts explained and apologized for on Google+.

Paid search remained the dominant ad revenue driver in 2011, accounting for $14.8 billion of the record $31 billion of all online advertising last year, according to the latest IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report, prepared by PwC U.S.

Google Vice President Marissa Mayer has been nominated to join Walmart's board of directors. Walmart hopes to tap into her experience with mobile, technology, and consumers. The election will take place June 1 during the annual shareholder meeting.

Four pictures snapped by French photographer Robert Doisneau are highlighted on Google's home page today. Doisneau, who was born 100 years ago today, essentially did at the time what Google now does on a grander scale with Google Street View.

Looking for a career in the pay-per-click )PPC( advertising field? New York City and Chicago have the most open PPC positions, but it seems third place San Jose is home to some of the highest paying PPC jobs, according to Onward Search.

When the Republican National Convention )RNC( convenes in Tampa, Florida, from Aug. 27-30, Google will be its "official social platform and live stream provider," presenting coverage of RNC events, programs, and interviews via Google+ and YouTube.

Amidst a massive company restructuring, Yahoo search will live on. Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has unveiled his vision for turning around the struggling company. Yahoo will focus on three core "groups": Consumer, Regions, and Technology.

AOL is selling more than 800 patents to Microsoft for $1.056 billion in cash. AOL will retain patents related to advertising, search, social networking, content generation/management, mapping and others, and Microsoft will license 300 more patents.