A Google Doodle today is paying tribute to motion picture innovator Eadweard J. Muybridge, a man whose 1878 series of photos known as "The Horse in Motion" was a precursor to motion pictures, television, and video-sharing sites such as YouTube.

A Google Doodle today is paying tribute to motion picture innovator Eadweard J. Muybridge, a man whose 1878 series of photos known as "The Horse in Motion" was a precursor to motion pictures, television, and video-sharing sites such as YouTube.

A former Google engineer is leading a team of two dozen Facebook engineers dedicated to creating an improved Facebook search engine that will make it easier for users to more easily find shared or liked articles, videos, and status updates.

Yahoo will layoff thousands of employees starting this week as part of a major company restructuring. A report indicates Yahoo is also looking at possibly getting out of search altogether. Is the Microsoft-Yahoo Search Alliance on life support?

One area that has been woefully underserved by Google is the bowling community. Today, Google has announced plans to right that wrong with the introduction of Google Bowling to Portland, Oregon, soon to also launch in NYC and California.

For Google, April Fools Day is the annual launch day for a slew of gag products and hoax services you'll likely never see in real life, including 8-Bit Maps, Chrome Multitask Mode, the YouTube Collection, Google Racing, and Click-to-Teleport.

Attention marketers: If your job includes SEO, social media, content, and organic/inbound marketing, then SEOmoz wants you to take their 2012 industry survey. This is a followup to their large 2010 study of 10,000 people in 90 countries.

A simply designed Google Doodle today honors architect and educator Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Google's colored letters appear within the windows of a rendering of one of his masterworks, the S.R. Crown Hall at Illinois Institute of Technology.

A keynote on integrated marketing, big ideas and big data kicked off Day 3 of SES New York. Marketers were also educated on SEO, paid search, link building, email marketing, and more. Here's a roundup of Day 3 live blogging and coverage.

SES New York attendees learned more of the latest tools, trends, and strategies in sessions covering SEO, paid search, landing page optimization, mobile, social, and more. Here's a roundup of Day 2 live blogging and coverage of SES New York 2012.

Following a keynote from Avinash Kaushik, SES New York 2012 attendees learned the latest tools, trends, and strategies in sessions covering SEO, paid search, analytics and more. Here's a roundup of today's live blogging and coverage of Day 1.

This study aimed to provide a more complete view of the top search rankings Wikipedia enjoys on both Google and Bing. Using a mix of queries that ranged from one to seven words, how often does Wikipedia appear on Page 1 of Google and Bing?

Happy St. Patrick's Day! On this day everybody becomes Irish. Even the search engines are Irish today. To celebrate the holiday, Google has "gone green" by posting a St. Patty's Day Google Doodle in select countries, including Australia and Ireland.

The winning logo from Ireland's 2012 Doodle 4 Google competition has been revealed. The Doodle, which appears on Google Ireland for 24 hours today,

Social ads work. Google's +1 button encourages more people to click on socially "enhanced" ads. For Facebook, social ads increases ad recall by 55 percent. So it's not too surprising that more money will be spent on social media ads this year.

Yahoo's slice of the U.S. search engine market continued to evaporate in February reaching a new low, according to comScore. Google and Bing both saw gains, with Google nearly matching its highest recorded search share )in December 2010(.

Windows Phone owners who have downloaded the new Google Search App from the Windows Phone Marketplace are giving it an overwhelming thumbs down thus far, because it strays from the Metro-style theme, image search is broken, and it's slow and buggy.

Google has made a couple of changes involving the +1 buttons. The first in an aesthetic change that will change the button's color scheme to red and white, while the other gives you the option to thank other Google+ users for +1'ing web pages.

Google is constantly on the lookout for spammy websites that don't add "sufficient value" to its users. For free web hosting services that don't want to see all of their sites removed from Google's index,

Encrypted search is expanding internationally for signed in Google users, Google announced yesterday. That means you can expect to find less search query data thanks to the default secure socket layer )SSL( Google has enabled on searches.