Here’s a roundup of today’s other search news and headlines from around the web, sorted by category.
Search News
- +1’s: the right recommendations right when you want them–in your search results – Official Google Blog
- Google’s Value To US Users And Advertisers Is Over $119B Per Year, According To Google – TechCrunch
- Google Talk Guru – Google Operating System
- Future Gmail Option: Disable Auto-Adding Contacts – Google Operating System
- How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing. – The Next Web
- How Backed Up Are Google News Publisher Approvals? – Search Engine Roundtable
- Apple, Google, Twitter Execs Part of Palindrome’s “Giving Pledge” for the Non-Billionaire Set – Fast Company
- Ultra high-speed broadband is coming to Kansas City, Kansas – Official Google Blog
- Bing it on Firefox 4 – Bing Search Blog
- Yahoo Search Trends: Final Four – Yahoo Search Blog
Search Engine Optimization
- SERP Scraping for Fun and Profit Case Study: Facebook – Explicitly Me
- Why aren’t geographic target and query parameters specified in robots.txt? – GoogleWebmasterHelp YouTube Channel
Search Advertising
- Google Comparison Ads: Friend or Foe? – Efficient Frontier Insights
- The +1 button & AdWords – Inside AdWords
Analytics & ROI
- The 8 Best Web Analytics Tools of 2011 – SingleGrain
Link Building
- Link Anatomy – Understanding The Value Of A Link – SEOmoz
- Give Me Nice Toiletries, Get Nice Link – SEO Chicks
Local Search
- Google Officially Ends Support For QR Code in Places – Understanding Google Maps & Local Search
International Search
- Google Canada offers SMBs a ‘net’ – Google Small Business Blog
- When in Rome: New Street View imagery of historic sites in Italy and France – Official Google Blog
- Word of Mouth: Introducing Voice Search for Indonesian, Malaysian and Latin American Spanish – Google Mobile Blog
- Google Tests Fate in China as Mapping Application Deadline Looms – Bloomberg Businessweek
SES Conference & Expo
- MycroBurst offers thousands of graphic designs from freelancers at SES New York 2011 – SESConferenceExpo YouTube Channel