Most people overlook the easiest way to find the websites which may want to link to you. Google provides a number of search operators which allow you to filter through all the chaff and find exactly what you are looking for. Here are a few examples.
Google have just released a list of 40 search algorithm changes made in February 2012. Most of them were rolled out earlier in the month but one or two are being rolled out at the beginning of March.
We've just uploaded a new video for iVan. iVan provide commercial vehicle insurance as well as policies for individual tradesmen. Note the Oscar winning acting performances by two of our Born employees! ...
In January Google rolled out a data refresh for Panda and further improvements to their algorithm.
In a post from last year (Finding high quality sites in search) Google explains that these types of changes are aimed at improving the rankings of high quality sites and lowering those for sites with poor quality.
In 2012 they have improved how Google Panda interacts with the indexing and ranking systems, integrating it further into their "pipelines.
SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) is designed to allow content owners and Governments to block internet access to websites containing unauthorised copyright material by obtaining a court order.
Payment gateways, internet service providers, search engines and advertisers would be forbidden from doing business with overseas websites which have court orders against them.
Wikipedia, Reddit and Boing Boing have all taken their sites offline in protest against the proposed act.
In 2010 Google was granted a patent called "Ranking documents based on user behavior and/or feature data" which it had originally applied for in 2004.
In the Google Search Playground there are a number of interesting projects to play with. My favourite today is the Search Globe.