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Internet privacy groups will be the beneficiary of the settlement, which came as the result of a lawsuit filed over Google's maligned Buzz launch.

Originally posted at Relevant Results

A little over a month ago, we reported this story "Facebook In Early Stage Search Engine Tests?" and detailed some of the changes we were noticing. Well, today, based on another tip from bloggers at All Facebook, we can confirm that Facebook is indeed displaying 'liked' news content in it's search result drop down. In fact, further to what All Facebook reported, they are also displaying content shared by your network of friends that matches the keywords you are sharing.

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Facebook has added more functionality to its search results by including all the articles a user's friends have said they "like."

Originally posted at The Digital Home

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....

Every wonder how many subscribers a blog has? This can be helpful in making decisions in advertising or understanding the marketplace. Measuring subscribers can be one way of measuring how successful the marketing results of a blog are. While it’s important to focus on what your business is doing, I find it helpful to compare to what others are doing as well.

A quick and easy way to figure out how many subscribers a specific blog has, if they run their feeds through the popular Feedburner application from Google, is to use the Feedburner code:

<img src=”http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~fc/FEEDNAME?bg=2856e9 &amp;fg=FFFFFF&amp;anim=0″ height=”26″ width=”88″ style=”border:0″ alt=”" />

Just substitute the word FEEDNAME (leave the ?) with the feed of the blog.

For instance Branding & Marketing’s feed address is:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/BrandingMarketing

So you substitute the word FEEDNAME with BrandingMarketing

and you get the results shown above.

As an example here are the feed stats for a few blogs from my blogroll:

Anita Campbell’s Small Biz Trends: SmallBusinessTrends

Drew’s Marketing Minute: TheMarketingMinute

Ivana Taylor’s DIYMarketers

Of course this only represents the people who have subscribed via Feedburner’s feed. And sometimes Feedburner’s statistics can vary widely. But this can help you get a rough idea of the “circulation” of the online publication.

This week's video is a bit longer than most, but that is okay, next week there won't be a video recap. Bing seemed to update their search ranking algorithm this week. Google may have tweaked their MayDay algorithm? Google added...

If you visit Google New Zealand today, you will see a special animated logo. The logo is a buckyball or fullerence. A fullerene is any molecule composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, or tube....

The newest beta of Skype 5.0 lets you video chat with up to 10 people, send an IM to someone who's offline, and better recover from dropped calls.

Originally posted at News - Digital Media

Have you ever stumbled upon a web site that was legally seized by the U.S. government? Sometimes, not always, they contain an image on the site that looks like this: Some folks at WebmasterWorld are saying that Google has been...

A WebmasterWorld thread has webmasters complaining that Microsoft is cloaking their MSNBots again, soon to be named BingBot. It has been going on recently since early August and continues throughout today. Microsoft has had issues with cloaking their bots in...

The Isreali start-up AOL bought three years ago to compete in the Q&A market has been rebranded as AOL Answers this week. The site is similar to Answer.com, Yahoo Answers and Ask Answers.

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Only two years ago, the Associated Press tried to stop bloggers from using their content. Threatening to charge sites that used their content and demaned that The Drudge Reports pull headlines and story briefs from their site. But now AP is singing a different song - saying this week that they will credit bloggers for any stories they break.

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Seems the privacy advocates see Google as 'evil'. Or at least the animated cartoon aired by Watchdog on the Times Square jumbotron suggested that yesterday. The clip below shows Google CEO Eric Schmidt gathering information from children as they attempt to buy ice cream from his Google truck.

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Google announced two new webmaster features. The first is related to rich snippets testing tool and the second is related to the breadcrumb URLs in Google. Google said they have made the rich snippets testing tool error reporting more robust....

Google has been pushing the local maps Google Place tags. They have been giving them away for free for a month, but requiring users to enter their billing information and cancel within 30 days to not be charged. The thing...

Yesterday I tweeted, "Just cause you spend 65k on a web site, doesn't mean Google will like it" and referenced a Google Webmaster Help thread. Well, I was wrong! Well, not 100% wrong. People agreed with me, in fact, it...

If you haven't already seen it YouTube has recently added two targeting features which enable advertisers to have more control on what videos their ads are placed on. Age restriction and video or channel URL restriction. Age restriction is not a self service feature, and will require you to work with your official Youtube representative but URL restriction is a feature you can enable yourself.

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Consumer Watchdog produced two cartoony ads slamming Google CEO Eric Schmidt as part of an effort to build support for a "do not track" list.

Originally posted at Relevant Results

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....

Outlook add-in maker Xobni finds Americans and Britons are having trouble getting away from the workplace because of the reach e-mail has into their lives.

Originally posted at The Digital Home