Ok I’m not going to rehash what Danny Sullivan mentions on his website concerning the latest search results update since he does a fantastic job of staying boringly objective about all the new features and drawbacks. What I will do is bring to your attention something that is quite a bit different: Do you know [...]
That Google is powered by algorithms is no secret. The systems at Google go through web pages and get signals that show a web page as useful to a given search query. Pages are also ranked depending on how relevant in-bound links are. People know this and some employ games of sorts in order to [...]
Speculation, speculation and more speculation is all that there has been concerning Google’s Facebook competitor product. Since mid last year people have been making guesses about the social networking product that would compete against Facebook. There is still not much that is known about it but at this point we can safely say that Google [...]
In December 2010, Matt Cutts, Google’s search engine spokesman, confirmed that the search engine uses Facebook and Twitter links in ranking its results. Cutts via a video on Google Webmaster Help Channel said that Google was still trying to figure out some more about a creators or author’s reputation on Facebook or Twitter. In an [...]
Word is going round about the possibility of a merger of Google and Twitter. Google now includes Twitter’s Promoted Tweets into the real-time search results. This is the first time ever that Google has included ads that are not from its Adwords. The Promoted Tweets were Twitters first go at online advertising. The ads are made [...]
Yahoo Japan can now use search results from Google. The Japan Fair Trade Commission gave the approval to allow the partnership and promised that it will monitor the alliance so that no violations of Japan’s anti monopoly laws take place. In July Yahoo Japan announced that it would start using Google’s results instead of Yahoo’s. [...]
Google has in the past showed a varied set of results when users search the net. To achieve this Google would show a limit of two results on any one domain. A few months ago the search engine started showing more than two results from the same domain on some branded searches. Google stated that [...]
If traffic to your site has dropped then you will be relieved to know that yours is not an isolated case. From October the 21st Google made a change to the way they rank search results. The changes were followed by a drop in traffic to some websites. The traffic flow drop was as much [...]
Internet users can now get ads free Google search results. The new RockMelt browser allows users to search using the toolbar and get organic Google results that are free from any advertisements. RockMelt is a social browser that is built on Chromium. Having the same open source basis as Google’s Chrome, the two are quite [...]
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