Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 hallmarks an unprecedented online protest by major websites against the now infamous Stop Online Piracy Act (known as SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA).

Happy Friday! Here's another recap of some goings-on in the Internet marketing world as of the last couple of weeks.

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Google vs. Bing Clickthrough Rates - Battle of epic proportions comparing Google and Bing in their clickthrough rates online.

Hey Internet marketeers! Here's another recap of some goings-on in the Internet marketing world as of the last couple of weeks. 

SEO

Yahoo Sunsets Site Explorer: A Eulogy - Yes, it's true; Yahoo! Site Explorer officially closed as of November 21st, 2011. SEOmoz author Michael King gives a great "eulogy" about the end of an era.

Instead of the usual recap, I've decided to focus recap efforts on a HUGE stir in the SEO community currently happening. On the 18th of October, 2011, Google announced that in the interest of privacy, if you are signed into Google while conducting a search query, the actual keywords will no longer be available to analytics users. This goes for all website analytics products, including Google Analytics.

Some articles you may have missed! Here are a few articles that sparked interest in the Internet marketing community over the last few weeks.

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7 Year Look At The Top Internet Properties - Interesting look at the top Internet properties from 7 years ago, and the top ones now. Some existed then and don't know, and vice versa. Who made the list?

Here are a few articles that sparked interest in the Internet marketing community over the last week.

SEO news and updates:

Google Puts The Smack Down - An irate webmaster attacked Google's Panda update saying he had "quality content" and SEORoundtable posted the results from Google's response. 

You can fool some of the people some of the time....

But doing so could get you reported to Google.

One company is finding this out the hard way. In a recent article by the New York Times, it seems the website of one of the longest standing department stores in the country, JCPenney, is under fire for black hat SEO tactics in their backlink acquisition.

A few people may have realized that the Google Related Searches tool has seemingly disappeared altogether from the "More Search Tools" section. This tool can be quite useful when trying to determine what keywords to target, especially when you may need a little help in finding other relevant search topics. However, even though this may cause a bit of a panic for some SEOers who depend greatly on the help of this very useful tool, it’s not time to get angry at Google quite yet.