Nokia has created three smartphones running on Android without Google-related services or software. The user interface on the phone now appears more like a Windows device. The phone is not earmarked for the U.S. market -- not yet, anyway. It comes equipped with the Bing search engine and other Microsoft services.

Searching for somewhere to go this summer on vacation? You're not alone. Consumers are on the move. Mobile travel sales that include purchases on tablets and smartphones totaled $16.36 billion in 2013, up 59.8% to $26.14 billion this year, per eMarketer. Sales on mobile devices till reach $64.69 billion by 2018, the forecast projects.

The Austin-based incubator and co-working space for start-ups Capital Factory has joined Google's Tech Hub Network, part of the Google For Entrepreneurs group. The company is the "eighth space" joining the group of partner organizations across the U.S. that does everything from hosting accelerator programs for developers to providing desks for entrepreneurs.

Robert Ramirez runs through nine tips for getting manual link penalties overturned. While Google looks to teach webmasters a lesson -- one they hope will make violators think twice before doing it again -- the process of recovering from these penalties can become very difficult. As Ramirez explains, recovering from link penalties takes time. He believes following these tips could increase the chances of a faster recovery.

Charles Soon provides us with clear differences in the way that marketers should think about selling products in China on Baidu vs. in the United States on Google or Bing. He explains that Google offers 10 organic placements in addition to leads that keep the user within Google. Baidu's top 10 organic results feature four links that lead back to its services, two of which relate to ecommerce. He also tells us about consumer behavior, powerful signals related to trust, and the importance of trying to rank on page one.

Google could debut Wallet on Glass. At least that's the latest rumor from TechCrunch. If true, users will have an option to make mobile payments from within the Wallet app by saying "send money" and going through a few gestures and swipes. Google takes a 2.9% fee for Wallet transactions or $0.30, whichever is higher, per TechCrunch.

Thinking of physical addresses similar to digital addresses will help marketing departments get a handle on making sure online data remains up to date. It gets more difficult to keep things in sync as the local search habits of consumers span multiple devices. Some 63% of searches use multiple devices. There were 347.7 billion PC searches in the U.S. last year, per the 2014 Neustar Localeze/15miles local study on local search use. More than half of all local searches end in a purchase.

Glenn Gabe provides insight on why smartphone rankings fall. He attributes this largely to faulty redirects, but also provides details on triggering smartphone-only errors. That means "redirecting smartphone users to error pages, 404s, or causing infinite loops between feature phone sites and smartphone pages." The tips he offers come from a case study with Electronista.com.

Google Ventures Partner Rich Miner tells Bloomberg's Emily Chang the company works with Google to learn where the next big idea may come from to help evaluate deals. The companies the venture firm invests in often end up being acquired by Google. For example, Nest and Parse, both acquired by Google. The company 23 and Me was started by Anne Wojcicki, wife of Google cofounder Sergey Brin.

Thanks to its focus on user privacy, DuckDuckGo has become a search engine to watch, VentureBeat reports. In fact, “DuckDuckGo is finally becoming a formidable Google Search competitor,” VB suggests. As part of a broader relaunch, the site soon plans to add several new features, including image search, place search and auto-suggest.