Google tweeted Feb. 24 that public status updates posted to Facebook Pages are now part of Google's real-time search results. Facebook Pages are basically advertising tools for organizations, businesses, celebrities, and bands to blast out info and updates information to fans. The Pages are bonafide, meaning users don't have to spend time worrying whether or not the content is being falsely produced by some publicity or money-seeking opportunist.

I'm learning to belly dance. Okay, that's totally overstating it. I'm wiggling to music in what is labeled a belly dancing class. I've found that I enjoy the constant movement, manipulating my limbs and taking any excuse I can to be silly. But more fun than the belly dancing is the instructor. She loves this stuff. Her eyes light up when she enters the room, her voice changes pitch, and she hops around throwing out euphemisms that make even the bravest people blush.

Newspaper websites are the most valued sites for people seeking credible and trustworthy local content, according to a new survey conducted by comScore for the Newspaper Association of America (NAA). More than half (57%) of the 3,050 respondents cited local newspaper websites as the top online source for local information. That percentage increases for upper income households (63%) and for the college educated (60%).

It looks like the people in charge of Gmail Labs have decided to do a little spring (or more accurately, late winter) cleaning. They've removed a full 11 experimental features from Labs, with six of the bunch becoming regular Gmail features and the other five failing to make the cut. Many of the "graduated" features are ones you're probably familiar with, or can at least guess the functions of. Forgotten Attachment Detector, YouTube Previews, Custom Label Colors,

comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced that Microsoft Advertising will use the comScore Audience Advantageâ?¢ platform to help consumer packaged goods (CPG) advertisers in the U.S., including Campbell Soup Company and Alberto Culver, reach their desired audiences across Microsoft's online properties, such as MSN and Windows Live. As the inaugural comScore Audience Advantage partner for the CPG industry,

When I was growing up, cutting coupons from the newspaper was a Sunday morning ritual. My mom cut coupons while drinking her morning coffee. There's a lot of news right now how coupon redemption is up for the first time in 14 years, but it's not through the newspaper, Moms are getting these coupons online. For kids today, that Sunday morning ritual is no longer Mom with her scissors and the newspaper, but instead with her laptop, and it's whenever Mom is online.

I was going to sit down and write a post with my usual brand of geekiness. You know, some more eye-watering patent or IR paper analysis that the search world uses to get to sleep at night?  Then I thought of something worth getting off my chest that seems not to get enough attention out there'Since this is a ' Search Biz ' article, right? You see,

Google announced via Twitter , that public status updates from Facebook are now include in the search engine's real-time search feature. That means the largest social network in the world is getting play in Google's real-time search alongside Twitter, MySpace, and others. Apparently only updates from Facebook PAGES are indexed, and according to Danny Sullivan , that includes links, status updates, photos, videos shared by page owners (not comments made by the fans).

Mobile search continues to explode. According to eMarketer , mobile search spending will grow 81% over the next two years. So there's no better time to get a jump start on your mobile search campaigns. Here are 5 key steps to launching a mobile search campaign in AdWords: 1. Measure your current mobile clicks How many of your current visitors are on mobile devices? Google recently added a mobile tab to the visitor report in Google Analytics.

If you think that by tweeting in English you will reach the entire world, you are wrong. Though English is by far the most 'spoken' language on Twitter, there are still many other languages on Twitter. French company Semiocast performed an analysis on 2.8 million tweets and found that half of the tweets are in English. Last year that was 75%. Twitter is only fairly recently started introducing international versions of their site,