Bing Webmaster Tools has some new updates, like: Expanding Crawl Details, Active Email Alerts, URL normalization suggestions, deeper data in the index explorer, DNS verification and AdCentre Integration. You can find out more at the Bing Webmaster Blog.

There is a New Social Networking site called Chime.in, that helps users with sharing interests and topics while creating groups and conversations around these interests and topics. Find out more on Chime.in.

Google seems to be indexing images much faster then it has before. You get get more information from here: Google Indexes Images a Lot Faster.

Bing Webmaster Tools has a blog that provides SEO's with some information and tips on SEO, like crawling, content, site structure and link building. For more information you can view the Bing Webmaster Blog here.

Amidst a handful of conflicting reports is a growing interest in the popularity of Google’s recently released social project, Google+. According to comScore, Google+ has reached 25 million visits across the globe since its launch on 28 June 2011 with the majority based in the United States. Both Hitwise and Chitika have reported that the new platform has seen a considerable decline towards the latter portion of July, as has Google Buzz. In the meantime Google+ continues to evolve and refine its features.

Bing is set to host a schema.org workshop on the 21st September 2011 in Silicon Valley following many discussions and feedback received after 2 June this year when it was announced that the search engine would collaborate with Google and Yahoo in order to create and support a set of standards for structured data markup on web pages. The workshop will serve as a “working session” to all who participate covering feedback and discussing options.

Along with Google Directory, Google Toolbar for Firefox has been dropped recently. An updated toolbar for Firefox 5 hasn’t been updated at all, which has surprised many users. Google has admitted that the product itself has not been discontinued and that they have merely not updated Google Toolbar for Firefox 5. It still however, works in the latest Firefox releases, provided an Add-on Compatibility Reporter is installed.

Did you notice there Google Directory no longer exists? Not many people did according to the search engine giant. The directory service was dropped last year already as the needs for acquiring information through web search by users has far surpassed that of a directory. Web search is also the fast means of finding information too. Find out more about Google Shutting Down their Directory.

Yahoo Site Explorer, is due to shut down later this year following a decline in sitemap submissions and an interest in webmaster tool interface. The service, once well respected, has become somewhat redundant since Yahoo began migrating their services to Microsoft, who function in much the same territory, both as a source for organic results on the web. Find out more on Yahoo Site Explorer

As of 6 July 2011, Google has removed more than 11 million .co.cc websites from its search engine results pages believing the majority of them to be spam or of low quality. These pages are independently owned by the Korean company http://co.cc, known as a "free host" and is not considered an officially authorised second level domain. Find out more about Google removing .co.cc results.