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[Google, Yahoo and Facebook are joined together in opposition of the Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA, which is said to help U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders fight online traffic in copyrighted intellectual property and ensuing revenue and job losses./>

[Adobe will no longer continue to develop a Flash player for mobile and it instead concentrating on HTML5; Google To Start Penalizing Sites for Too Many Ads;A Possible Solution to Google Panda and its Fresher Results; Should Amazon Buy Yahoo?/>

[Google announces a new search algorithm change that helps make the search results fresher. Besides for the results being fresher, the results will change for about 35 percent of all searches. Jim and Dave discuss the implications of this new change as reported in SearchEngineLand. />

[Research In Motion or RIM, losing ground in a market that its BlackBerry smartphone helped to build, is adding developer evangelists in Silicon Valley to change perceptions, plus SEOs Strike Out as Google Encrypts Signed-in Search Data and Bing Top Position Gets 9.66 percent CTR, Lower Total Page 1 CTR than Google./>

[RIM May Face Claims as Operators Refund BlackBerry Customers; The Google Doesnt Get Platforms Family Intervention Memo. Also, Jim and talk speak with Jure Klepic, a Vancouver, BC-based attorney who specializes in helping companies develop social media policies./>

[Looking Back at the Legacy of Apple Co-founder Steve Jobs following his untimely death with Former Apple exec and NoNoyz President David Szetela. />

[Business Wire, a company operated by Warren Buffet and Berkshire Hathaway, has been awarded a U.S. patent for the technological process of optimizing and distributing press releases to maximize their ability to be found and tracked in the search engines. Jim and Dave discuss the implications. />

[Interesting News Any Time You Visit, New Safety Tools Launch, Improved Friend Lists and now the TimeLine, a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. Jim and Dave welcome guests panelists Kristine Schachinger and Miranda Miller to discuss. />

[Expanding Internet Marketing to Asian Markets with David Temple Global CSMB Search Lead for Dell. He discusses if Bing has helped to carve a path into China for western businesses, and whatever became of Yahoo and Alibaba and the search results with Baidu and Google. />

[Google has acquired Zagat, one of the most well-known names in restaurant reviews, in a move to improve its local products, which are now run by Google VP Marissa Mayer./>

[This roundtable discussion concludes with where content/SERPs are going in 2012 via mobile, local, segmented SERPs, etc... They discuss what to expect in 2012 environment and how to create the SERPs, social, display, and additional content going forward. />

[In the news, Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO; Bing Gives a List of 18 SEO Fundamentals. Guest Thom Craver discusses Google Multi-Channel Funnels and how we can discover untapped opportunities in your conversion path. We also welcome Michael Mire of GetMeListed.net./>

[Jim and Dave speak with Kristine Schachinger to discuss London Riots and Social Media and the potential of Social Media, specifically BlackBerry IMs, Facebook and Twitter, plus the FTC Investigation into Google centers on Android blocking competitors services preferencial placements for Google Places, Shopping Results and financial data and how Motorola Threatens Android and partner Google./>

[Jim and Dave discuss Googles recent bid of 900 million dollars for 6000 patents belonging to the bankrupt telecommunications company Nortel, plus they speak with Shawn Rorick, Author of Emerging Marketer and Organizer of the upcoming Digital World Expo. />