Last week, Google introduced the Knowledge Graph .

A few weeks ago, I noticed a drastic change in Google’s video index that’s something many people have been asking for and has some pretty interesting ramifications.

So Google recently made a change to their search results that rolls in content from your Google Plus account and your Picasa account. The idea, to hear Google tell it, is to make the search results more personalized and more useful to each user...

You've probably seen the news that Google Search is now infused with more personalized content from your Google Plus and Picasa accounts--I say you've probably seen the news because it's everywhere.

So, this morning while in my hotel at SES Chicago, I received a tweet from a good friend, Tim Cross , that at least in the UK, Google has rolled out, or is testing, new Universal Search video thumbnails...

According to Searchmetrics , YouTube.com was the biggest winner of the recent Google Panda Update, dubbed Panda 2.5.

I interviewed Mark Robertson – video SEO expert , ReelSEO publisher and featured speaker at the 2011 Video Commerce Summit August 1st-2nd in San Francisco, who will be presenting on “Why Video Marketing has Evolved Beyond SEO.” Mark shared with me his belief that social video marketing has become the huge driving force not just for Video SEO , but for all video online.

Google has been giving users “ instant previews ” in the search engine results pages (SERPS) for some time allowing users to click a little blue magnifying glass symbol next to each result to see a cool little overlay that shows a preview of the resulting website content.

Video content on ecommerce sites has helped many retailers improve their conversion rates, reduce returns, improve customer satisfaction and loyalty. Video can also attract more search engine traffic, thanks to Google's Universal Search ...