Search Engines News and Blog Posts

News from the major search engines including Google and Bing. Covers events and news stories related to search engine companies specifically.

Authorship Information in Google Search Results If you’ve spent any time searching in Google recently, you may have spotted certain search results are starting to appear with the author Google+ profile link and photo shown next to the search results, for example: In this example, if you search for ‘Google AdWords advice‘ or ‘AdWords consultant‘, [...]

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It is well known that Google regularly close AdWords accounts where the advertiser creates adverts that break one of their strict policy rules. These can include topics such as counterfeit goods, products that are harmful or ads with misleading claims. In 2011 – 800,000 AdWords advertisers had their accounts closed. These accounted for 130 million [...]

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Ever wondered what the ‘Google dance’ is? Curious to know why Google updates are given daft names? In this video, Google’s Matt Cutts gives a quick history lesson on Google Algorithm updates and explains the difference between Bart and Fritz. And relax…

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So, today we see the launch of Google’s new Privacy Policy. If you use any of Google’s services (who doesn’t?), you would no doubt have seen a message or received an email about this. Did you read it? Does it matter? We’ve discussed Internet privacy here before. Of course, this is a sensitive topic and, [...]

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Yesterday, Google announced 40 changes as part of their on-going improvements to search quality. As with many things to do with Google, it’s all quite a tease and no doubt the SEO forums will be awash with even more views and opinions as to what it all means. A couple of interesting snippets from the [...]

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Just as you get a handle on personalised search results and privacy issues, Google moves the goal posts. The recent launch of Search plus Your World has transformed the way in which search results are listed. In addition to presenting results that best match your keywords, including content that Google believes to be of interest to you, [...]

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Is Your Business Ready for Technology Changes?

Technology has changed the way we do everything. I haven’t set foot in a supermarket in years, I never travel without checking my plans through Trip Advisor and I do all of my Christmas shopping online. Whether I’m looking to buy a house, get my car fixed or plan a night out with friends, the [...]

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Google Announce Encrypted Search Queries

Google announced yesterday a major change to the way signed-in users, i.e. those logged in with a Google account, will search within Google. The short version is that “many” signed-in users will be redirected to the secure (SSL) version of Google, i.e. https. Google have offered privacy and security concerns as the driver behind this. [...]

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Matt Cutts (Google) – Webmaster Q&A – 21st September 2011

Matt Cutts, an engineer in Google’s Search Quality Team and long-time ‘public face‘ for Google delivered a live question and answer session on the 21st September. It’s always good to see the human side of Google and losing the camera feed during the broadcast was handled with a calmness that can only come from spending [...]

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Weekly Round-up – Goodbye Yahoo Site Explorer…

Is Google Going Head-to-Head with Amazon’s Kindle? With the development of its iriver Story HD e-reader, launched last weekend in the US, it certainly looks that way. It claims to be the first e-reader integrated with the open Google eBooks platform, through which you can buy and read Google eBooks over Wi-Fi. Initially, it will [...]

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