Google abused its trust and misused its power when it blacked out its logo and encouraged its millions of users base to "Tell Congress: Please don't censor the web!" At least according to the Recording Industry Association of America's CEO.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center )EPIC( is suing the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in the hopes of stopping the new Google privacy policy, which is set to become effective March 1. The complaint was filed today in federal district court.

The mobile version of Chrome runs on smartphones or tablets with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich or above. Although Chrome for Android was designed from the ground up for mobile devices, it has many of the same features of the desktop version.

Oakland A's General Manager Billy Beane talked baseball, metrics, and people calling him crazy, with an audience of search marketers and corporate executives in a keynote yesterday at Covario's InflectionPoint 2012 conference in California.

Simple PPC split testing can provide market insights that allow you to connect deeply and powerfully with your prospects. All that's required is a willingness to think, wonder, and ask. Here are two questions to jump-start your own deep curiosity.

Some metrics will be completely eliminated; others are being replaced by metrics added to the Graph API. If you haven't already stopped using the deprecated metrics, you probably have your work cut out for you to quickly get the updates in place.

Apple is the king of mobile. With an expanding market share, Apple is poised to break records yet again in 2012; though they must improve their iAd inventory to compete with Google. Here are the implications for mobile marketers.

Google believes that we can solve some of the world's greatest problems by working together. We Solve for X appears to be more focused on global problems, using them as opportunities to encourage "moonshot" thinking.

A minor update to Google's Panda update was released in January. This was just one of 14 other search changes Google announced. Others included fresher results, improvements to autocomplete, better spelling corrections, and auto-disabling Instant.

Google said that since security system Bouncer has been operating, malware levels on the Android Market have gone down. The company noted that over the second half of 2011, malicious downloads had decreased by 40 percent.

A court in India has ordered 21 technology firms, including Google and Facebook, to remove content. The Indian branches of both firms have complied with the court's request and removed pages which had been deemed religiously or socially offensive.

The way you work, the tools you use, and your approach to SEO has changed. Be open to changing the way you think about SEO and willing to change the way you view the search world. Take advantage of these opportunities, tools, and platforms.

Google is a free, simple, and powerful tool that can quickly teach you about your market - and the art of link prospecting. This beginner's guide will walk you, your interns, your contractors, or your staff through the basics of link prospecting.

Red Herrings abound when you're looking at your AdWords data. Information overload is a risk. The last thing you want is to see a relationship between a couple of your PPC metrics, make a decision, and later rue that you didn't investigate further.

Google's latest Doodle marks the 200th Birthday of british novelist Charles Dickens but also marks the first time that the company has used their logo change to specifically promote a product or service.

We're 24 hours removed from Super Bowl 46, in which the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots 21-17. But it was neither the Giants nor Patriots that people were searching for most last night on Google during the game. It was Madonna.

The Lantern Festival was celebrated on Google's homepages in Taiwan and Hong Kong today. The Lantern Festival falls on the 15th day of the first month of China's lunar year to mark the end of celebrations for the Chinese New Year.

The car brands and ad agencies that made the most viewed YouTube ads of yesterday's big game have put seven new plays into the next edition of the Creator Playbook that other marketers and advertisers are likely to use again in the future.

Implementing a full SEO campaign from scratch can be a large commitment for any company. However, there are a number of website tweaks that can be accomplished in 15 minutes or less that could increase your traffic immediately.

When optimizing a PPC ad, many changes that seem minor from a surface level, like switching placement of phrases, swapping out single words, or tweaking verbiage, can in fact represent a major change in terms of psychology and emotional impact.