Search Engine Land
If you haven't noticed, Google has been busy updating their search products (see: Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar). On top of those changes that they have publicly documented, we are also seeing additional SEO-specific updates by Google.
Search Engine Land
TechCrunch | Bing Strips Down Results Page To Make Google Look Like “Search ...
InformationWeek
Learn More While Google keeps cramming its search results pages full of tools and social content, today Bing confirmed with me the full roll out a redesigned search results page that completely clears the left sidebar, and replaces the tabbed header ...
Why reining in Google is good for us
CNN
By Douglas Rushkoff, Special to CNN Google is in the cross hairs as the Federal Trade Commission and European Commission are challenging the firm's monopoly. (CNN) -- I don't like feeling stuck in a particular operating system, social network or piece ...
Google, authors tussle in court
USA TODAY
By Larry Neumeister, AP Paul Sakuma, AP Paul Sakuma, AP NEW YORK (AP) —Google Inc. urged a judge Thursday to toss The Authors Guild and an organization representing photographers out of 6-year-old litigation over the future of the world's largest ...
USA TODAY
Google Wants Authors Group out of NY Library Case
ABC News
Google Inc. urged a judge Thursday to toss The Authors Guild and an organization representing photographers out of 6-year-old litigation over the future of the world's largest digital library, a move that would force authors and photographers to ...
Google 'Penguin' Latest Algorithm Change: Brands & Agencies Flock To Zeno For ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Google's latest "Penguin" algorithm has caused havoc throughout the search marketing world - negatively affecting the Google rankings and traffic of some webmasters globally, including some of the world's biggest brands. LONDON, May 3, 2012 /PRNewswire ...
Post-Penguin Update: Weird Google Search Results
SubmitinME
by Divya Fernando - Today 830 Views The panda update and the recent penguin update has added more value to natural social media marketing. The hurdle of tracking the social media marketing results is almost overcome by the new social data at Google ...
SubmitinME
17 Ways SMBs Can Survive the Google Penguin Update Effect
Search Engine Watch
Unfortunately, innocent bystanders report they are taking a hit with little defense against Google, the largest search engine boasting 66.4 percent of the search market share and not to be ignored. How can a business protect itself from the potential ...
Google's Street View Snooping: Congressman Wants Investigation
PCWorld (blog)
Representative Ed Markey of Massachusetts is citing reports that cast doubt on Google's claims that its collection from the networks of "payload data" -- which included e-mails, passwords andsearch histories -- was “a mistake” in his calls for a ...
Girls are finalists in Google doodle contest
Washington Post
Eileen Powell, 11, from Alexandria, and Johanna Robinson, 11, from Brookeville, are finalists in the annual Doodle for Google contest. More than 114000 kids from kindergarten through grade 12 drew pictures using the search engine's logo.
Google Says Individuals, Not Authors Guild Has Standing In Books Case
Wall Street Journal (blog)
... Bray Google Inc. presented Judge Denny Chin with an interesting argument Thursday as it sought to dismiss a long-running lawsuit over the electronic scanning of some 20 million books available in public and university libraries. The search-engine ...
Google, authors go head to head over digital books
Reuters
By Grant McCool | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc, in a long-running legal dispute over its plans to create a digital library of books, argued in court on Thursday that associations of authors and photographers should not be allowed to sue the company ...
Tired of using Google search? Try DuckDuckGo
ZDNet (blog)
Advertising Age reckons that Bing is 'Trailing' and that Google search is 'Tired'. Google has been around since 1998 and has matured into an Internet behemoth serving ultra-targeted ads. But will DuckDuckGo, tagged as 'Trending' on the site lead the ...
Google's (Not Provided) Impacting More Than Just SEO Sites
Search Engine Land
Now “(not provided)” makes up the largest category of search terms, dwarfing the second place term: Poynter. Overall, 6 percent of inbound traffic now comes from a black box. In the six-plus months since Google began encrypting searches and outbound ...
Search Engine Land
Google's “Penguin” Algorithm Causing Havoc Throughout Search Marketing
Daily Disruption
By Duane Barnhart | @dailydisrupt | May 3rd, 2012 Google's latest “Penguin” algorithm has caused havoc throughout the search marketing world – negatively affecting the Google rankings and traffic of some webmasters globally, including some of the ...
Judge says Google's Android lost money in 2010
Reuters
By Dan Levine | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc's (GOOG.O) Android mobile platform resulted in a net loss for the company in every quarter of 2010, despite generating roughly $97.7 million in revenue for the first quarter of that year, ...
Google Doodle contest: young artists vie for site's 1 billion viewers
Christian Science Monitor
The Google Doodle tops the Internet giant's search page, and the company is holding a contest to let kids design their own. The winner will get $30000 toward college – and a lot of eyeballs. By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke, Contributor / May 2, 2012 A screen ...
Christian Science Monitor
Time For Google To Speak Out Against CISPA
Forbes
A still from a video posted on Google's public policy blog advocating for stronger privacy laws for the cloud. As the Internet's political anger has massed around the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act over the last month, ...
Google wants authors group out of library case
Crain's New York Business
By Associated Press AP Images [+] Enlarge A year after the judge rejected a $125 million deal that would have settled the case between Google Inc. and The Authors Guild, the search-enginecompany says that the authors and photographers would be better ...
Why Google converts best among comparison shopping sites
InternetRetailer.com
Google Inc. isn't just the leading Internet search engine. Google also operates the comparison shopping site with the highest conversion rate in the first quarter of 2012, according to a new study by CPC Strategy, a company that helps online retailers ...
Why reining in Google is good for us
WPTZ The Champlain Valley
Today, it's Google in the cross hairs. Egged on in part by those left lying in the wake of Google'srise to Web search dominance, the European Commission and US Federal Trade Commission are challenging the company's monopoly and how they are leveraging ...
Baldwin High School senior Tucker Brown finalist in national Google contest
Baldwin City Signal
Representatives of the Internet search engine Google on Thursday visited Baldwin High School to announce that senior Tucker Brown was the state winner of a Google Doodle contest and was now in the running to win college scholarships as a finalist in a ...
BrandYourself's Google Tool Tells You Who's Searching For You
Huffington Post
A new feature offered by BrandYourself, a site that helps its users manage their online reputations by controlling the links that show up as top search results on Google, can help you find out where, when and how others are searching for you.
Which cloud-based file storage service is the best--Google Drive, Dropbox or ...
Kingsport Times News
Google Inc. unveiled its solution to the problem last week, while two other companies, Dropbox Inc. and Microsoft Corp., improved their existing offerings. The idea is to leave your files on their computers, so that you can access them from any ...
FIGHT! Dropbox vs. Google Drive...Guess Who Wins?
Business Insider
But search giant Google, has entered the storage arena adding a new service,Google Drive, to its ever growing list of products. So which one should you choose? Keep reading to see how Google Drive and Dropbox stack up against each other.
Business Insider
Sky Sports.com Google Search
SkySports
Adebayor tried his luck from distance in search of a hat-trick but chipped over. Spurs played out time to record their first win at the Reebok Stadium and the travelling fans chanted their support of Redknapp.
New Google Education Search Hub « NeverEndingSearch
By joycevalenza
Learning to tap the full potential of Google Search empowers students in both their academic and daily pursuits. Search education provides the technical tools and critical thinking skills crucial to preparing today's students to be technologically ...
NeverEndingSearch
A Google Image Search for Porn, Presented Without Comment
By Kif Leswing
You probably shouldn't be Googling "gizmodo porn" if you're at work, but we discovered this yesterday and felt compelled to share. Hey, at least we're consistent!
Gizmodo
Sq1 | Blog – How Google Uses Human Raters in Organic Search
By Karli
Insatiably curious blogger PotPieGirl stumbled upon an indexed copy of Google's training manual for human URL quality raters in October. The 120+ page guide was more a reinforcement of search engine optimization (SEO)best practices ...
Sq1 Agency
Indian Trial Court to Proceed with Google ... - Search Engine Journal
By David Angotti
During my time as a managing member of an educational startup I gained direct experience related to business development, search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization(SEO), conversion rate optimization (CRO), online ...
Search Engine Journal
YouTube App For Google TV Gets Update To Enhance Search ...
By Marissa Johnson
In the same vein as a recent update to Google TV's TV& Movies App, the YouTube App for GoogleTV has just been updated to enhance search functionality.
GTVHub.com
Google's Love Affair with Wikipedia Far More Serious Than Bing's ...
By Nathan Safran
A comparative analysis of how Wikipedia ranks in both Bing and Google search engines using Conductor Searchlight technology. ... Conductor enterprise seo platform · Blog · Contact · Careers · Login; 888 9CONDUCT. Searchlight · Customers · Resources ... We recently published a study on the frequency Wikipedia appears in the search engine results pages (SERPs) that was covered by both Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Land. We broke a 2000 keyword set into ...
Conductor Blog
Google Product Search Ranked Top Comparison Shopping Engine ...
Google Product Search was the top comparison shopping engine (CSE) in Q1 2012, while Nextag just edged out PriceGrabber for the second spot, says CPC Strategy in a May 2012.
Marketing Charts, Stats, Facts & Trends
Google Says Content, Not Tricks Is the Key to Optimization
By Doug
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) firms charge big bucks for monthly services that include creating thousands of fake landing pages, creating “ping-backs” by commenting on other posts, and a number of other nefarious, but previously ...
Think Agency
Get Found in Google (Part I): How To Do Keyword Research | Active ...
By Shannon Fiack
Keywords are a big part of what Google looks for when scanning the Internet for sites that match a search term. It's important to understand how your participants speak and what they search, as well as how your event is different from other ...
Active Network, Endurance Blog
Google Rolls out Financial Services Comparison Ad-Unit in Search ...
By Stephen Murphy
Back in 2010 I blogged about Google entering the credit card comparison search space, but this update and modification sees a new type of ad-unit integrate smoothly within the Google searchresults. I think it looks ... This is a new opportunity for advertisers undoubtedly, but from a search engine marketing perspective – it presents an even greater challenge to those running PPC adverts and those looking to optimise their content to rank naturally for these product queries. How have ...
Latitude
News sites increasingly kept in the dark as Google hides incoming ...
By Steve Myers
A sizable percentage of inbound search terms are hidden from publishers now that Googleencrypts searches by default when users are logged in to Google.com and Firefox and Chrome use encrypted search in their toolbars. When Google announced the change ... The question is, could your business afford to not know what 20% – 40% were searching for, when they use the world's most popular search engine to find a product, or a service? This poses challenges for people trying ...
Poynter.
Google – Google Search EducationGoogle - Google Search Education. Alright, so today we will be teaching you guys some ...
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Google: Algorithm Updates | Search Engine Land
Google periodically changes these algorithms. When this happens, that's known as an "update," which in turn has an impact on the search results we get.
searchengineland.com/library/.../google-algorithm-updates
Google Launches Search Education Hub for TeachersGoogle Search Education has been providing classes for the past few years, aimed at ...
thenextweb.com/.../google-launches-search-education-site-for-...
Tech Blog: How does Google search work ?
You might have used Google to search almost anything – it can be for some info, code, training, videos, stores, route or anything. But, do you know how Google's ...
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Google Launches Search Education Hub for StudentsToday Google has launched a new search education tool aimed at helping students become ...
sproutsocial.com/insights/2012/.../google-search-education-hu...
Search Education รข€“ Google
Help your students become better searchers. Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources ...
www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/
New Changes to Google's Search Results Ranking Algorithm ...
Google has recently announced further changes to its Panda algorithm. The purpose of the changes is to reduce the ranking of low-quality Web sites.
www.gavick.com/.../new-changes-to-googles-search-results-ra...
Author Information in the Google Search Results
Google includes author photograph and link to Google profile in the search results. Learn more about Google Authorship.
www.hallaminternet.com/.../author-information-google-search...
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