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Google Recommends Using Both XML Sitemaps And RSS/Atom Feeds For Optimal Crawling
Google published a set of best practices for XML sitemaps and RSS/Atom feeds on its Webmaster Central Blog this week,...
How to Get in the Mind of Google: The Human Rater Handbook Leaked
Google has a manual for their team of quality raters. The job of these raters is to analyze websites to...
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Google Faces Criticism From FTC For “Deceptive” Search Ads
The Wall Street Journal reports Google, along with Yahoo and Microsoft, is under scrutiny by the FTC for doing little...
Who Provides Better Answers Between Siri, Google Now, And Cortana?
Stone Temple Consulting analyzed data from 3086 different queries to find out which gives the best answers between Siri, Google...
Google Makes Conversational Search Even More Intelligent
The Google Search app on your smartphone is probably not the first place you would turn to when planning a...
The Death of Google Authorship: Why Being an Author Isn’t Dead
Just a few months ago (late July 2014), we heard about the disappearance of the Authorship head shot. Now, the news has...
Google Will (Probably) Not Be Updating Toolbar PageRank Again, John Mueller Confirms
Google’s last Toolbar PageRank update, which rolled out on December 2013, may have been its last as Google’s John Mueller...
How Will Google “Read” & Rank Your Images in the Near Future
Image Reading and Object Recognition in Images is an important task and challenge in image processing and computer vision. A...
6 Essentials to Pack for Vegas #Pubcon 2014
I love to travel. A lot. Which means I put a good deal of thought into striking the perfect balance between...
Why Did China Block Duck Duck Go?
Of all the search engines in the world, one of the most intriguing is Duck Duck Go. While the search...
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Google Answer Boxes Appearing 44% More Frequently [STUDY]
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Moz published a report today containing data which shows a significant jump in the appearance of Google’s Quick Answer boxes....
Google Competitors Launch Site Explaining How Google Is Hurting The Internet In EU
On Monday, Yelp, TripAdvisor and other allied companies launched a new effort aimed at convincing European antitrust officials to force...
Yahoo To Retire Several Old Products, Including The Yahoo Directory
Yahoo recently announced they will be shifting their focus to what they feel are their core products, which means retiring...
Facebook Launches Rebuilt Atlas, A Rival To Google’s DoubleClick
Facebook has announced the launch of Atlas, an advertising platform which they say has been rebuilt from the ground up to...
New Panda Update Rolling Out, Google Takes Another Stand Against Thin Content
Pierre Far, Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google UK, announced on Google+ last night that a new Panda update is rolling out....
Bing Releases New iPhone App With Features For iOS 8
Bing’s new iPhone app is now available in the Apple’s App Store, and the company stated in an announcement that...
Google Enhances Search Listings With New Structured Snippets
Google announced this week via the Google Research blog that they will be introducing a new addition to search listings....
DuckDuckGo Is Now Blocked In China
DuckDuckGo has been blocked in China, according to Tech in Asia who reported on this after noticing first hand over the...
Google May Use What’s On TV As A Ranking Signal, According To New Patent
Bill Slawski at SEO By The Sea broke the news this morning that Google has been granted a patent that...
DuckDuckGo To Be Featured In Apple’s iOS 8
DuckDuckGo will be one of several new search engines to choose from as your default search engine in Safari when...