A lot is happening in the world of search and social and as you know State of Search is not a news-reporting site but a site that interprets the news and looks at why something is happening and what that means to you.

That doesn’t mean however we are not interested in the news. In this post we will bring the top stories of what happened last week with links to articles around the web. So you will know what you’ve missed.  

Here’s what happened last week

Google Analytics Rolls Out Solutions Gallery

Google rolls out “Google Analytics Solution Gallery” with solutions for campaigns dedicated to branding, e-commerce, lead generation, etcetera

Related stories online:  Searchengineland, TechCrunch, GoogleWatchblog

Twitter rolls out improved Search with old(er) tweets

Twitter updates its Twitter Search, primarily for mobile, and with that an additional update to twitter.com: you’ll now be able to find older Tweets using search.

Related stories online: Mashable!,The Next Web, Business Insider, Search Engine Land, AllThingsD and SocialTimes

Google wins advertising case in Australia

Google won a court case in Australia where the High Court ruled Google was not responsible for messages conveyed by paid advertisers on its site.

Related stories online:CNET, Bloomberg, Marketing Pilgrim, WebProNews,The Verge

Eric Schmidt Confirms Identity Verification Impacts Rankings

Sneak peeks into the soon to be released book, “The New Digital Age”, by Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, confirm what we already thought: Google+ is a verification tool. And will impact rankings.

Related stories online: The Drum, WebProNews, SearchengineJournal, Searchenginewatch

Eric Schmidt to sell 42% of his shares?

The same Eric Schmidt was said to be selling 42% of his shares to Google, which will make him a lot of money, but also less powerful within Google.

Related stories online: TechCrunch, Guardian, Wall Street Journal,9to5Google, AllThingsD, Business Insider

Yahoo! to use Google on Contextual Advertising

Is it the Marissa Mayer connection? Maybe, but Yahoo! , who is already partnering with Microsoft’s Bing on advertising, now has also struck a deal with Google.

Related stories online: Wall Street Journal,Econsultancy,WebProNews, Search Engine Roundtable, Business Insider and TechCrunch

Yandex bigger than Bing

Yandex surpassed Microsoft on the number of monthly search queries worldwide in November and December 2012, according to a recently released comScore qSearch report.

Related stories online: Searchenginewatch, WebProNews, DailyTech, Guardian 

Google must extend payments across Europe for use of content 

Google must extend its offer made last week to pay French publishers for use of their content to all media companies across Europe.

Related stories online: Reuters,  TechCrunch, Forbes, Engadget

Microsoft on the attack (again) to Google

Microsoft seems to be back on the war path against Google with its latest “Scroogle” campaign.

Related stories online: Marketingland, Business Insider, ReadWrite, 9to5Google, DailyTech,CNET, Bloomberg, WebProNews

Facebook deleted all EU facial recognition data

Both the Irish data protection commissioner and a German regulator confirmed Facebook deleted all European facial recognition data

Related stories online: Engadget, The Verge, AllFacebook, The Next Web

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