Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.From Search Engine Land:Who Coined The Term SEO?Someone’s trying to trademark the term SEO, which has roiled the SEO community. The someone is named Jason Gambert and he has persistently filed with the Patent [...]

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NeeTeeVee reports that YouTube is now defaulting videos that contain ads to show post-roll ads.  In the past, YouTube would only show the ads if those inline ads were clicked on.  But now, when the videos end, they should show a post-roll ad.Greg reported earlier that Google would try preroll ads on YouTube as a [...]

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On Site Rates Go Into Effect Monday, October 6th, 7:30am ETProcrastinators. Most of us.Good news is there’s still time to register for Search Marketing Expo - SMX East in New York City. But time is running out, so register today and join the search marketers from more than 1000+ companies who will attend SMX East.Still [...]

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More and more people are spending free time (and work time) online and lots of those people want to discover interesting things on the web. Google Blogsearch’s new home page applies that insight with a browsable version of what’s going on in the blogosphere. The UI design is a little reminiscent of Google News, but [...]

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Posted by Nick Gerner
After watching Nate Buggia a few weeks ago speak about Live’s Webmaster Tools, I was struck by his statistic about the number of domains on the web.  He suggested that there are 78 million domains.  There’s certainly room for disagreement about this number—don’t forget Google has one trillion web pages —but [...]

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