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According to the latest American Express OPEN Small Business Search Marketing Survey, more than half of SMB marketers say they need assistance with search engine marketing.

Yesterday, Microsoft announced new features for m.bing.com (the company’s mobile browser), including improved image search, more local-conscious services and easier mobile commerce options.

Brand Finance has announced that Google is 2011’s top brand, demonstrating the power of the search engine over the internet-using public.

A recent survey from the Boston Consulting Group, relayed by eMarketer, reveals that enhanced web access and mobile content are top features attracting tablet readers.

Good news for B2B social marketers – LinkedIn’s membership is on the rise. The company announced this week that it hit the 100 million professional mark.

Yahoo is introducing Search Direct – a feature similar to Google Instant, and search marketers must ask themselves if this will impact SEO.

Bing has added a Public updates feature to Bing News that promotes shared content related to timely search queries. For content marketers, this means shared content is more likely to reach a highly relevant group of Bing News users.

At the the “Search: Where to Next?” panel discussion, multiple reports indicate that experts seem to agree that social search signals will become increasingly important, and local search is already influencing the way consumers look for info on the web.

The latest web property rankings mark Twitter’s debut on ComScore’s list of top web properties.

Google announced it is offering Page Speed for Chrome to help developers make their sites faster on Google’s browser, and site speed is good for SEO.