Google has released a new version of its iPhone search app, boasting a revamped interface, full screen image searches and improved search speeds. The update makes app pages load faster and autocomplete search suggestions appear more quickly.

Content marketing and link building both have their merits in the realm of search marketing. However, the tale of the tape reveals that content marketing has a distinct advantage over link building for marketers. Here are seven reasons why.

How will mobile local monetization materialize? That’s the big question. This outline offers a few foundational elements for mobile monetization which many players ¬- including Yelp, Foursquare, and Facebook - could (as some already have) build on.

Google unveiled its Knowledge Graph recently, which it called the “first step in the next generation of search.� Chinese search giant Baidu isn’t impressed, saying Google’s semantic search isn’t new, and Baidu has been doing it better since 2009

Google reports it receives over 250,000 requests to take down URLs accused of copyright infringement each week. In the past month, Google has received requests from 1,000 copyright owners to remove pages from 24,000 websites from search results.