This week Delicious launched a new redesign along with some new search features. They have now elaborated on what all is new when it comes to search. Time Filters One new feature is the time filter. This lets the user limit the time frame of a search so they can narrow down results on time-sensitive subjects. "For example, a search for the term tour de france will bring up bookmarks about the race in general," explains Delicious. "By limiting these results to the last month,

Earlier today social media came to a screeching halt , as both Twitter and Facebook were down for long periods of time . This left most people just staring at their screens, there were even reports of some people actually working. Oh the humanity! But in all seriousness, Facebook just sent out the following tweet which explains their downtime: For those of you unfamilair with a denial-of-service attack,

Posted by Sam Niccolls 'This week in Search' is a compilation of some of the most interesting, newsworthy, and useful stories in and around the world of search over the last 1-2 weeks. If you have articles on your own blog or think something is worth mentioning in next week's post, send me a direct message to me on Twitter (@samniccolls) or tweet it and include @seomoz #thisweek in your tweet.

Just about everyone is familiar with the proverb "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," and today, Twitter, Facebook, and Google may have bonded over it. Rumors indicate that the three companies are jointly trying to determine what was behind some denial of service attacks. As many people noticed, Twitter suffered an outage this morning. Facebook experienced intermittent issues, too, and there were reports of problems with Blogger. Indeed,

by Sage Lewis The AP is now charging anyone who uses 5 of their precious words. The Associated Press has gone insane. I think that happens right before death. Check out our small business news site.

by Paul Jahn On Sunday, I went into AdWords to do a little keyword research. You've seen their keyword tool before. You just go into the campaign, click on the Tools button and you've got the keyword tool right up top. This didn't happen to me Sunday. In fact, I didn't see the Tools button at all. Sitting here confused, it took me quite a few seconds to recognize something I've never seen before, an Opportunities tab. Here's what I normally see. Here's what I saw on Sunday.

Microsoft has released a document (pdf), which outlines the guidelines for use of the Bing brand for things like logo use, search boxes, etc.

No one will be beaten to death. At least, I don't think there will be any physical punishment. But on Tuesday, August 11, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., Market Motive U will be holding a Live Certification Gauntlet. If you've never seen one, it was common practice in the French army, especially for thieves. In some traditions, if the condemned was able to finish the run and exit the gauntlet at the far end, his faults would be deemed paid,

Hat tip to SEW forum member rodhull who spotted Google repositioning PPC ads to be closer to the organic listings in the SERPs. I could definitely tell a difference when I conducted searches on Google in Internet Explorer and then Firefox. In IE, I could see the test with the paid search ads moved over to the left a bit: Then in Firefox, Sponsored Listings are hanging out closer to the right: What have you observed?

You hear this word "Authority" thrown around these days. People use it for all kinds of reasons. In one sense, authority is a word that describes the depth of a person's knowledge. On another level, it simply means the power to which an individual has been elevated over others.  Either way, people respect it. Authority can be abused. It can be acquired in less than honorable ways. But when legitimate,