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Earlier this month we launched our YouTube channel. To celebrate, we announced the “One Tool or Tactic, Two Minutes” contest, challenging the SEOmoz community to create a two-minute video highlighting their favorite tool or tactic.

For those who might have missed it, here’s the original YouTube contest post.

The Videos

We were thrilled with the response we got. You guys got creative: we had everything from simple Whiteboard-Friday-style standups to screencasts of tool use to cartoons and fully produced mini-movies.

We also learned a lot about what everyone's focusing on these days. We received a ton of submissions in the Content Marketing and Social Media categories, just a few in the Email/Outreach category, and none at all in the APIs or Google Updates categories (I guess everyone’s finally

The update adds Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, European Portuguese, Finnish, Galician, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak and Swedish to the Google roster, bringing its supported languages up to more than 40.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

• Google's Cutts Say Penguin Is About Links?
  The majority of SEOs believe Google's Penguin update is about links and it is a link based algorithm. Google has never fully confirmed it is a primarily link based algorithm but maybe that has changed? Google's Matt Cutts responded to a question on Twitter saying:
• Patent: Google Faking Search Results To Trick SEOs?
  A recently granted patent named ranking documents can be looked at as if it was a Penguin patent or maybe a patent on how to trick SEOs into thinking their pages are ranking or maybe both...
• YouTube Hides Tags Due To Abuse
  Keane from YouTube announced in a YouTube Help thread that they decided to remove the tags from showing up

Google's Motorola Mobility division is reportedly claiming that Apple devices, including the iPhone and iPad, infringe seven of its patents, including location reminders, email notifications, video players and Apple's Siri voice assistant feature.

Blekko has withdrawn free access to their SEO tools, opting instead for a subscription model that will cost SEOs $99 per month. The change comes after crawler updates earlier this year that brought real-time data to the tool.

Blekko has withdrawn free access to their SEO tools, opting instead for a subscription model that will cost SEOs $99 per month. The change comes after crawler updates earlier this year that brought real-time data to the tool.

For the second straight month Bing saw its U.S. search engine market share on the rise. Meanwhile, Google held steady, duplicating its record share of the search market, while Yahoo held steady after 10 months of declines, comScore reported.

The majority of SEOs believe Google's Penguin update is about links and it is a link based algorithm.

Google has never fully confirmed it is a primarily link based algorithm but maybe that has changed?

Google's Matt Cutts responded to a question on Twitter saying:

@joshbachynski saw your comment on Barry's post. Certainly links are a primary area to monitor. Been true all this year; expect to continue.

â" Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) August 16, 2012

The hard part here is that Matt was not being specific in his response. Yes, he was responding to the question that read:

Matt, can you please tell us exactly what to fix now then so we are not caught off guard? Don't give us the secret sauce, just be transparent and say "watch your linking text" or "check your HTML for inadvertent

Keane from YouTube announced in a YouTube Help thread that they decided to remove the tags from showing up on the video watch page because some are abusing it.

Keane said it wasn't used much by the average user and when used, it was typically abused by being copied from video to video. He wrote:

Tags no longer appear on this page - this isn't a bug, but a change that went out this week. Having them on the watch page, in some cases, gave users an opportunity to abuse tags by copying them from other videos. We also didn't see much usage of tags by the average viewer.

In no way does this mean you should not tag your videos. YouTube will continue to use it for discovery and search purposes. Keane explained:

Though tags don't appear on

A WebmasterWorld thread points to an older Microsoft Patent application named System and method for ranking search results using click distance.

The patent is about using the distance of a click in search rankings. Here is the abstract:

Search results of a search query on a network are ranked according to an additional click distance property associated with each of the documents on the network. The click distance is measurement of the number clicks or user navigations from a page or pages on the network designated as highest authority or root pages on the network. The precision of the results is increased by the addition of the click distance term when the site or intranet where the search query takes place is hierarchically structured.

In short, how many clicks it takes to get from the home page to a