France, Google Search for Common Ground on Link Fee

France, Google Search for Common Ground on Link Fee
TechNewsWorld
In a meeting with Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, French President Francois Hollande urged the search giant to reach an advertising-revenue agreement with French news publishers before 2013. If no agreement is reached, then France could ...

SEO Tech Leader #Conductor Secures $20 Million in Financing
Search Engine Journal
Conductor, a leader in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) technology, today announced that it has secured $20 million in financing led by Investor Growth Capital, marking the largest investment to date in natural search technology. The company will use ...

New Android apps worth downloading: Google Search update, Flip Launcher ...
Android Apps Appolicious
Google Search's latest update gives the app new capabilities – including the ability to help you book hotels, flights and restaurant reservations. Flip Launcher comes next, making it easier to launch your favorite apps without going and searching for them.

Google's essential interactive Hurricane Sandy 2012 crisis map
ZDNet
... visit and share Google's live interactive Super Storm Sandy 2012 crisis map. This comes withGoogle's new Public Alerts now available on Google Search & Maps in browsers, on Google Maps for Android, and also on Google Now for Android devices ...

Government SEO is Broken
Search Engine Watch
... overlap in websites and domains. This is a pretty big initiative. One problem: there is a missing element that could hinder the effort - consideration for how users search for and find government service online – where's the search engine ...

President wants to cut French newspapers from Google's search results
iTWire
OK, no Google (in fact, let's drop the entire Search Engine industry going all the way back to AltaVista, DogPile and all the others). We should ask the newspaper sites how they feel about being forced to advertise their websites only via traditional ...

SEO Jobs Now in Jeopardy Reports CreatingJobsforAmerica.com
Equities.com
A recent August post first brought to attention by the Marketer's Black Book website revealed that the Google search engine algorithm changes could harm SEO jobs. As an alternative, some business owners and website owners are turning to new training ...

One Website Wins the SEO War on Words with Greenwich Flats for Sale
Equities.com
Despite popular belief Google don't only take into account the keywords and search enginemarketing techniques used to raise a company's profile on their search engine, they also assess the quality of the entire website, the copy, the design and the ...

Google search engine optimization technique - SEO Chat
Google search engine optimization technique- Google Optimization. Visit SEO Chat to discussGoogle search engine optimization technique.
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Will Facebook Search Engine Break Google Search?
This is a discussion on Will Facebook Search Engine Break Google Search? within the Search Engine Optimization forums, part of the Internet & Marketing ...
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Windows 8 is like a bad blind date?

Windows 8 is like a bad blind date, Google search suggests
CNET (blog)
Windows 8 is like a bad blind date, Google search suggests. Typing the phrase "Windows 8 is" at Google's search engine triggers an array of autocomplete suggestions, most of them not very complimentary. Lance Whitney. by Lance Whitney. October 29 ...

Google: Search Engine Submission Services Can Be Harmful
Search Engine Roundtable
search engine submission Most Search Engine Optimization experts find search engine submission services to be a waste of time and a scammy type of service. That being said, Google's John Mueller took it a step up by saying using these services may hurt ...

Forget Google's White Backdrops: Bing To Launch Interactive Panoramic ...
Co.Create
Google, the world's most popular search engine, is synonymous with this minimalist color scheme, but it's been mimicked by a slew of competing services, though some include news and other text around the search box: Baidu, Yahoo, AOL, Ask. For a task ...

Co.Create

Search Wars: Google Launches Playful (Yet Strategic) Assault on Bing and ...
groovyPost
The Google Search app for Windows 8 adapts to the touch-friendly “Metro” environment, with features built for swiping, such as the image search and image preview. The Start screen tile for the Google Search app strives be equally as eye-catching as ...

groovyPost

Why The Future Of Search May Look More Like Yahoo Than Google
TechCrunch
When you search, you know what you want (or something close to it) and the search engine points you in the right direction. You don't need to pre-install the results or pre-select the right app. We've seen that Google, Bing, and Yahoo! have already ...

Start! Google Invades Windows 8
SmartHouse
The Internet giant has created a Google Search app and Chrome browser for Windows 8, making it the default browser on Windows 8s homescreens, and giving Microsoft Bing the boot. "The Google Search app comes with a clean and recognizable user ...

SmartHouse

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No Google search app for Windows RT users

No Google search app for Windows RT users
The Droid Guy
The Google Search is one of the best ways to search the world's most used search engine on mobile devices. We have widgets on Android smart phones and tablets, there is an app for iOS devices, and now on Windows 8 devices. But what about Windows ...

The Droid Guy

Alan Schill and SEO Service Group Collaborate to Skyrocket Client's Search ...
Equities.com
This is done through a slew of standard SEO procedures and more advanced ones that Alan has developed with his vast experience. By utilizing Google Places search engine optimizationtactics and Google specific tactics, business owners will not only ...

Why Is Megaupload (Still) Censored by Google's Piracy Filter?
TorrentFreak
MegaUpload; Print. To reduce online piracy, Google has implemented several changes to its search engine in recent years. Among other things, Google has blacklisted dozens of piracy related ...Funnily enough, Google's search algorithm bypasses the ...

Get Your Google Back, Google Tells Win 8 Users
Tom's Hardware Guide
Distraught Windows 8 users wanting a more Google-flavored experience are in luck, as they can easily load up Internet Explorer 10 and head over to this website to "get their Google back." It provides links to the Google Search app and the Chrome ...

Verisign Blames Google For Drop In Domain Registration & Renewal Rates
Search Engine Land
So we discussed in the last call, the Panda and Penguin programs, for example, thatGoogle utilized where they were targeting content farms, they were targeting keyword stuffers and now, they're also targeting exact name matches, which typically are ...

Search Engine Land

Ask An SEO Expert – Responsive Web Design
Business 2 Community
Ask An SEO Expert The question is, are there any SEO pros or cons to look out for with the recent commitment by Google to responsive website design? Before I answer the question, I want to go through a little bit about exactly what responsive website ...

Google Launches “Get Your Google Back” Campaign For Windows 8 Users
Search Engine Land
If you're a Windows RT users, this site won't help you. Google Search is simply unavailable for Windows RT unless you go directly to Google in your browser. Our Sorry, Microsoft Surface Users: No Google Search App For You story has more about this.

Search Engine Land

Google shows Windows 8 users how to easily ditch Bing and IE
SlashGear
Google has launched a new “campaign” of sorts to get new Windows 8 owners using both its search engine and Chrome as quickly as possible. It's called ... Once you're there, you'll be prompted to install the Google search app for Windows 8. The website...

SlashGear

Google Shows You How To "Get Your Google Back" On Windows 8
Hot Hardware
But Google's making sure that it's easy to regain Chrome support, and to add Google search to your Windows 8 Start screen. It's actually not difficult, particularly sinceGoogle established a website dedicated entirely to helping you out here. (Yes, it ...

Hot Hardware

Windows 8: 'Get Your Google Back' in it
SubmitinME
For those Google addicts who switched to 'Windows 8' which entered the market yesterday, you should have felt embarrassed noticing Bing to be your default search engine. Don't worry sinceGoogle has a way out for you from this problem. Google has ...

How To Get Your Google Back in Windows 8
Gizmodo
Microsoft is pushing its own Bing and Internet Explorer hard, but if that doesn't cut it for you, Googleput out this catchy little video on how to get your Google back. In a bid to make re-Googling as easy as possible for the new Windows 8 crew ...

Google Affiliate Network Now Paying Advertisers Top Dollar
Equities.com
Top companies like Google, Yahoo and Bing have made noticeable changes to the search engine results in effort to filter out results that are not relevant or considered low quality by mathematical filters. Small business websites are among those that ...

Google Apps: 20 Million Students, Faculty, Staff Are Users
TalkinCloud (blog)
But that may miss the bigger point: Google Apps puts competitive pressure on Microsoft's cash cow business. In theory, that means Microsoft can't focus all of its attention on Bing, the Google Search alternative. Also of note: A Google Apps partner ...

Sorry, Microsoft Surface Users: No Google Search App For You
Got a shiny new Microsoft Surface with Windows RT and want to search with Google? No can do. The Google Search app is only for Windows 8, and it seems ...
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how to add site in Google search engine ? - Google Product Forums
how to add site in Google search engine ? Showing ... JenishParmar.com, 10/27/ 12 1:41 AM, I have created new website how to add in Google search engine ?
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Google is many things -- but not an illegal monopoly

Google is many things -- but not an illegal monopoly | Politics and Law - CNET News: " . . . Perhaps no Internet leader faces as much scrutiny from government as Google, which has been the subject of a Federal Trade Commission antitrust probe for over a year. As this investigation comes to a close, the government is reportedly leaning toward suing Google before year's end. Naturally, its rivals are lobbying the feds to come down hard on the search giant. Yet Google's critics haven't put forward a serious legal case against the company. The world's top search firm may be many things -- some of which aren't pretty -- but an illegal monopoly, it is not. If the feds haul Google to court, they'll send Silicon Valley a powerful message: Washington is open for business and happy to meddle with the Internet economy."

Sorry, Microsoft Surface Users: No Google Search App For You: "Got a shiny new Microsoft Surface with Windows RT and want to search with Google? No can do. The Google Search app is only for Windows 8, and it seems like — amazingly enough — that’s because Google hasn’t gotten around to making one."

Verisign Blames Google For Drop In Domain Registration & Renewal Rates: "I think there is a more serious effort by the search engine algorithm players here to sort of clean up search results and improve the quality, as Pat said, to drive some of the monetization community down further. So we discussed in the last call, the Panda and Penguin programs, for example, that Google utilized where they were targeting content farms, they were targeting keyword stuffers and now, they’re also targeting exact name matches, which typically are monetization names often. So for example, if you search for purple blue widgets, and purplebluewidgets.com happens to be a registered domain, that in the past, would’ve been likely to score very high in the search results. However, if the search engine algorithm is tweaked to go out and consider other factors, the age of the domain, how many pages are on it, how fresh is some of the contents and give it a score, essentially, on how likely it is that it’s truly quality content that the searcher might be interested in versus something that had been set up for monetization purposes, I think the search engine algorithms are essentially targeting that kind of traffic to get it out."

Understanding Google's Algorithm Updates
Practical Ecommerce
The term "webspam" refers to low-quality sites that use manipulative search engine optimizationstrategies to win rankings and traffic. Google's war on webspam has reached an all-time high, with the search ... Understanding these algorithm updates and ...

Google Search App for Windows 8
Solar Panels News
The Search App by Google can be accessed in the Windows Store for free and is offered as an alternative to the default search engine in Internet Explorer on Windows 8, Bing. The Search App for Windows 8 is not just a search app but it also serves a ...

Dead or Alive: Is SEO vs. PPC Really a Debate?
Business 2 Community
It's the age-old debate of whether or not businesses should invest the majority of their online marketing budget toward search engine optimization, pay per click or both. Small businesses understand the fundamental challenges that go hand in hand with ...

Deconstructing The Google EMD Update
Search Engine Land
It is probably worth noting, Zoltán Gyöngyi is a research scientist at Google who went to Stanford and studied with Professor Hector Garcia-Molina, who was the principal investigator for the Stanford Digital Library Project, in which the Google search ...

Search Engine Land

Reach, relevance and ROI: Guiding on the Internet
New Zealand Herald
Their number one port of call is the Google search page. And businesses looking for new leads and customers should take notice of this trend. A successful search engine marketing (SEM) campaign can attract new customers in their droves and raise a ...

New Zealand Herald

Do I need to hire an SEO company to boost my website's ranking?
Retail Week
A It's an enduring myth that search engine optimisation (SEO) is a dark art, or incomprehensible to non-specialists. Google produces a comprehensive SEO starter guide, for example – a great place to start for retailers looking for insight into how it ...

Search Engine Academy Blog | Google Authorship & SEO | Search ...
Search Engine Academy introduces you to Google Authorship. This helps boost your SEO efforts - especially if you are an online news reporter or diligent ...
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FTC misguided in Google Antitrust Case

Searching for A Real Antitrust Problem
Wall Street Pit
The FTC is believed to be in the process of preparing an antitrust complaint against Google, on the grounds that it uses its dominance in the search engine market to promote its other services by altering its algorithms to boost their prominence in its ...Looking at who filed the complaints in these two cases yields a valuable lesson. In the case of the NCAA, the complaints came from the student athletes, the ones who have been deprived of choice. In the case of Google, the complaints came from competitors. These companies’ real problem, it seems, is not that customers do not have choices, but rather that customers aren’t choosing them. If Google’s competitors are right, and Google really is altering search results for its own advantage, users will soon defect on their own. The FTC would do a greater public service by protecting the interests of student athletes who have nowhere else to go.

5 Ways to Beat Your Competitors at SEO
Entrepreneur
As anyone who's ever struggled to achieve and maintain high search results rankings can attest to, search engine optimization (SEO) is a constant race to stay one move ahead of your competitors. To win that race, you need to continually improve your ...

Entrepreneur

A Visit to Google Land The Intransparent Methods of an Internet Giant
Spiegel Online
Nine out of 10 Germans searching for information online -- a number roughly consistent to Google's global presence -- now use the search engine that Sergey Brin and Larry Page launched in 1996 under the name "BackRub." Since 1997, their baby-turned ...

Spiegel Online

Google Rolls Out Top Heavy 2 Update
Equities.com
Google's head of spam Matt Cutts via his twitter account announced the Top Heavy 2 update. The Top Heavy 2 update focuses on removing sites from the search engine, which have too much advertising or imagery above the fold. Users of Google had ...

SEO industry gets in a spin over online content marketing
Internet Marketing News
In light of Google's Panda and Penguin updates, designed to target content and link spam, in favour of rewarding fresh, unique content, quality content represents one of the few SEO strategies to produce consistently good results. Despite content being ...

The Changing Economics of Google AdWords (Infographic)
Business 2 Community
Offsetting those declines are an impressive growth of ad impressions and clicks (clicks were up +21.6% for Google Search, +29.1% for Google Display Network), which more than made up for lost revenues. It's hard to say for certain ... It also opens up ...

In Web Search, Be Efficient in the Terms You Use
New York Times
“We really try to make Bing a place where you can go to get stuff done in the real world,” said Stefan Weitz, senior director of Bing, Microsoft's search engine and chief rival to Google. “People expect search now to actually do a better job connecting ...

New York Times

How free tools can turn you into a web diviner
Sydney Morning Herald
... site and your competitors'. Setting aside the clunky industry standards – GoogleKeywords and Google Analytics – here are five alternative no-cost tools that can help you become an SEO seer as dollars move from offline to online in a shift that ...

Sydney Morning Herald

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Will Google ever lose its crown as the most popular search engine?

Will Google ever lose its crown as the most popular search engine?
ZDNet
Using Bing as an example of a competing search engine, according to recent advertisements of theirs, Microsoft is claiming that people prefer Bing over Google nearly 2 to 1. As one might expect, there's a choice selection of fine print to follow up ...

Google launches dedicated Windows 8 Search app
TechRadar UK
Google has released a dedicated Search application for Windows 8 prior to the global launch of the operating system Oct. 26. The free touch-friendly app, available to download from the Windows Store, will give Windows 8 users an alternative to the ...

10 Post-Panda/Penguin Era Link Acquisition Strategies
Search Engine Journal
Then, in April of 2012, the Penguin update hit 3 percent of the search results, knocking out sites with link profiles that looked suspicious. In the wake of the Panda and Penguin updates, I have dug into the data and found some of the most common ...

Google releases Google Search for Windows 8 app
TweakTown
Google Search for Windows 8 is available right now in the Windows Store for free as an alternative to Microsoft-owned Bing, the default search engine in Internet Explorer on Windows 8. Google Search for Windows 8 isn't just a search app either, it is a ...

TweakTown

How Website Load Times Affect Google Rankings
Business 2 Community
As the most popular search engine in the world, Google has a lot of influence over how companies run their websites. You've probably heard something about Google's Panda and Penguin search ranking algorithms and how to please them, but how does ...

Google Search app launches for Windows 8, and it's a gateway to all other ...
The Next Web (blog)
And now, the mighty Google has thrown another one of its digital hats into the ring with Google Search for Windows 8. ... This actually works better for me than Microsoft's own Windows 8 Bing Search app, which has separate apps for the likes of Maps.

The Next Web (blog)

SEO Seminar Announced: Panda, Penguin, Google Algorithm ...
SEO Seminar Announced: Panda, Penguin, Google Algorithm Changes. Search engine optimization (SEO) is still the most valuable source for website traffic.
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Google Showing Google+ Profile In Search Results On Third Party Sites

Google Showing Google+ Profile In Search Results On Third Party Sites: "It is not uncommon these days to (1) see author pictures in Google search results and (2) to see them when the author and publisher did not set anything up specific for them to show up. By that I mean, they didn't do the necessary work to set up authorship on the site."

By the numbers: The black and white of Google's Penguin
ZDNet
As if search engine algorithms wouldn't spot such a thing and consider it a phoney way to raise your profile. Yet, many big companies follow a similar approach. Let's take Telstra as an example. A Google search for "link:http://telstra.com" shows that ...

How social signals influence SEO: 5 things you need to know
Econsultancy (blog)
2012 has been a time of great transition in SEO. With Google's Penguin update in May, we saw a concerted move away from it being duped by black hat techniques, and a move towards beginning to incorporate social signals into its algorithm. The water's ...

13-inch Retina MacBook Pro And Pricing Leaks Through Google Search Before ...
Cult of Mac
This time Apple search engine hasn't spoiled any of the announcement, but the world's most popular search engine has one of the main products of today's announcement. This morningGoogle search was pulling results from Apple.com that revealed Apple ...

'Horses and Bayonets' Becomes Top Google Search For Debate
International Business Times
After the third and final presidential debate of 2012 the most popular search on Googlewas "horses and bayonets," according to the search engine giant, which referred to President Barack Obama mocking Mitt Romney for saying that the Navy needed more...

International Business Times

Google's Death Spiral In China
Seeking Alpha
Those who said earlier this month that Google will go up further have just overlooked the fact that the exit of its search engine from China early in 2010 has already crippled its long-term share performance and will hurt its revenue growth in a few ...

Google releases search app for Windows 8
CNET
On Windows today, people reach Google's search service with a browser. But when Windows 8 arrives this week, the company evidently hopes people will use a dedicated search app, ... Microsoft may not be happy to see people using Google over its own Bing ...

Big Patent Suit Against Google Over Quality Score Goes To Trial
WebProNews
The search engine system also employs a collaborative/content-based filter to make continuing searches for information entities which match existing wire queries and are ranked and stored over time in user-accessible, system wires corresponding to the ...

Here's What The Google Windows 8 App Looks Like
WebProNews
Search Charm – By installing the Google Search app, you can easily access Google from the Search Charm. Instant Previews mode – Browse search results without having to visit each page. View Your Searches – Swipe from the top to see the sites you ...

Google threatens to ban French newspapers
Zee News
London: Web giant Google has threatened to ban French newspapers from its search engine, if the country passes a law that will make it pay for the right to use the paper's news articles online. The new law, dubbed the ''Google law,'' has been ...

Zee News

Is Ask.com Continuing To Play The Google ... - Search Engine Land
By Pamela Parker
We recently received an email from a reader who'd made an inquiry with Google AdWords support. Why, this reader had asked, is Ask.com allowed to buy AdWords and rank for certain surprising terms, when its landing page features mostly ...
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Bing vs. Google: Webmaster Tools Challenge ... - SEO Software
On October 16, 2012 Google finally put an end to the annoying ... SEO PowerSuite Hot-new version. Supported ... Search Engine Optimization · Link- Assistant.
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Bugreport of google search engine - Google Product Forums
Bugreport of google search engine, Ritesh.agile, 10/22/12 1:24 AM, Hi, I have found one bug in Google search engine,I want to discuss with Google team.but i ...
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Ex-Google Employee Says “Forget About SEO”

Ex-Google Employee Says “Forget About SEO”
Search Engine Marketing (blog)
Over-optimization, or over-saturating websites and/or web content using SEO tricks of the trade leads to penalization by search engines, most notably Google. As an attempt to combat these websites,Google's Penguin algorithm decreases search engine ...

Google threatens to ban French newspapers from its search engine in row over ...
Daily Mail
The owners of many French newspapers are in favor of the tax, believing their revenue and copyrights are compromised when Google's search results display their content.Google has threatened to remove French newspapers from its search engine if a new...

Daily Mail

Google, Penalties & the Disavow Links Tool: The Big Game Theory
Search Engine Watch
I'm here to argue that the opposite could actually be true and that those using it are being gamed byGoogle. Google has never had an issue with the quality of search engine results pages (SERPs) per se. Yes, there were areas that they weren't ...

New Google Search Appliance released
ITWorld Canada
In recent years, Google has been developing more and more efficient search algorithms, and is conducting research on using natural language in queries. But the barrier to developing a better search engine is often related to mushrooming amount of data ...

ITWorld Canada

24 SEO Browser Extensions
Practical Ecommerce
There are many search engine optimization plugins available for a variety of browsers, putting freeSEO tools right at your fingertips. Here is a list of ... Compare link metrics for Google, Yahoo! andBing with search-engine-results-page overlay ...

PRESS REVIEW -- Global search engine giant acts unfairly to websites
thenews.pl
GAZETA WYBORCZA writes that, Allegro, one of the largest e-commerce websites in Poland is arguing that the Google search engine giant picks and chooses which links appear where. /. “Unfair practices related to Google's search engine is now the biggest ...

SEO Orlando and the Bing v. Google Debate | Orlando Marketing ...
The Bing v. Google debate is a long running debate that encompasses the effectiveness of both of the major search engines. For a marketing firm Orlando, the ...
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Government shouldn't regulate Google searches

Government shouldn't regulate Google searches
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines
How can people who use Google's search engine be harmed if they are not paying for the service? Search is a free good. If the searcher is dissatisfied, try a different search engine — with a single click. Government investigators must think clicking ...

The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines

Experts predict Google Search to Expire, Mobile Apps to Outpace
The Droid Guy
Moments after its third-quarter earnings report was inadvertently published earlier than scheduled on Thursday, various speculations about Google's future expiration as the world's lead Internet search engine quickly began to blowout. The early release ...

The Droid Guy

Diageo eyes Google searches in bid to corner cocktail market
The Australian
If the site generates enough traffic, the search-engine marketing spend, which will be live for at least six months, will decrease as Google's search algorithm begins to prioritise the website in its organic, or unpaid, search rankings. "It's by far ...

3 Steps to Protecting Your Website's Search Rankings
Terra.com
You've worked hard to follow search engine optimization (SEO) best practices to earn high rankings for your website in the search engine results pages (SERPs). After weeks or ... So far, the specific criteria to qualify are known only by Google. You ...

Webmasters Reeling over Latest Google Algorithm Updates
Equities.com
Google recently released the 20th version of the Panda update along with their Exact Match Domain (EMD) update. However, they did not mention the new Panda update when they announced the EMD update. This caused confusion among webmasters ...

Google Penguin Update: Severely effects SEO strategies – Search ...
Search Engine Optimization - What You Need to Know' ... Google Penguin Update come into existence on April 24, 2012, with the purpose of grueling spam ...
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Could Google disappear? Analysts predict the search engine's demise on the ...
Daily Mail
As Google suffers a catastrophic nose-dive in its market value, analysts are already predicting its demise as the world's lead Internet search engine. '[Google] could disappear in five to eight years and disappear in the sense that Yahoo used to be the ...

10 things Google won't tell you
MarketWatch
Google, the giant search-engine company, has looked unusually vulnerable lately: It rattled financial markets on Thursday when it announced a 20% drop in third-quarter profits — and it accidentally released the results prematurely, to boot. Yet ...

MarketWatch

Accusation by an algorithm / No relief yet for victims of 'libelous' Google ...
The Daily Yomiuri
The distress of people who are labeled as criminals by the autocomplete function of Internet search engine Google is likely to continue for some time, in light of recent developments in their lawsuits against the company. U.S. search engine giant ...

Google loses another $5BILLION as internet giant's shares are hammered again ...
Daily Mail
'The only conclusion l can look at is - search is happening more and more outside ofGoogle, meaning people are searching more through apps than through Google search. That could indicate a secular change, especially when it comes to e-commerce ...
 
Daily Mail

Google threatens to drop French media links over fees plan
The Guardian
For example, if a Google search about the French president, François Hollande, returned a list of articles by the newspapers Le Figaro or Les Echos, Google would have to pay a commission fee for displaying those links. Google executives met government ...

Google Gives Update On Shopping Going Full Paid Inclusion, Hints At
By Pamela Parker
Now that Google's new pay-for-play Shopping is in full swing (the changeover took place October 17), the company used its earnings call to share thoughts o.
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Search Engine Optimization: Did Panda and Penguin Affect Your ...
Even if you haven't heard of Google Panda and Google Penguin, as a website owner, ... Search Engine Optimization: Panda and Penguin Cause Some Website ...
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Google's Disavow Links Tool and "Negative SEO"
Along with Google's Penguin update, they also released a Disavow Links Tool ... 2012 at 10:03 am and is filed under Resources, Search Engine Optimization.
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Russian search engine Yandex targets Google in international expansion

Russian search engine Yandex targets Google in international expansion
San Jose Mercury News
DUBLIN -- Russia's leading Internet search engine, Yandex, will take the fight to Google (GOOG) in emerging markets like Turkey in a bid to offset the inroads made by the U.S. giant in its home market. Yandex founder and chief executive Arkady Volozh ...

Is Your SEO Agency Any Good?
Search Engine Watch
SEO may be a little different in that there's no dedicated industry regulatory body or code of conduct as such; but if your SEO agency is using poor quality tactics that contravene a search engines' guidelines, then your business presence in the search ...

Why Does Marissa Mayer Consider Siri The Perfect Search Engine?
Forbes
While Yahoo! was once a major player in search – even as late as 3 years ago – they essentially outsourced their search know-how to Microsoft (MSFT) Bing in a deal that former CEO Carol Bartz signed with Steve Ballmer 3 years ago. The deal hasn't ...

Bing Spokeswoman and Former Hills Star Kristin Cavallari Swears She No ...
Betabeat
Kristin Cavallari descended on Silicon Alley this morning to judge a Halloween costume contest at Spirit Halloween. Why was the former Hills star jumping around the alley judging silly contests in the middle of the day? Well, the ghoulish competition ...

Betabeat

L'État, C'est Google? Search Giant Threatens to Stop Indexing French Media Sites
The Atlantic
Several years ago, the French government commissioned a report proposing new ways to accomplish something France has been trying to do for centuries: protect French culture against the many outside forces that stand to threaten it. The requested report...

The Atlantic

5 Basic SEO Tips For Beginners
Business 2 Community
Visitors can come from word of mouth like when your friend tells his other friends to visit your site, others from article directories or in most cases from search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo.SEO or search engine optimization is the most ...

Search Engine Google Says Profits Fall
Voice of America (blog)
Search Engine Google Says Profits Fall. Posted October 18th, 2012 at 3:25 pm (UTC-4). Internet search giant Google says its profits declined 20 percent in the last three months, which prompted a sharp sell-off of the company's stock on Thursday. U.S ...

SolarCure: Generating Business with Solar Powered SEO™
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Each press release will be enhanced for Search Engine Optimization (SEO), which has been proven to increase Internet traffic, improve search engine listings and bring other benefits associated with green branding. Such brands greatly appeal to ...

Here's What I Meant When I Said 'Microsoft Is Throwing Money Down A Rat Hole'
Business Insider
One of the questions that came up was whether Microsoft's ongoing investment in its search engine, Bing, made sense. My answer was the same as it has always been: No. Specifically, I said I thought Microsoft was just 'throwing money down a rat hole.' ...

Business Insider

Facebook search engine: good or bad idea?
VatorNews
In September, Mark Zuckergberg gave his first interview since Facebook's IPO. He talked about a lot of different topics, from Facebook's mobile strategy, to his biggest mistake. There was one thing he spoke about, though, that I was sure would gain ...

Pay To List French News Sites? "Non," Writes ... - Search Engine Land
By Barry Schwartz
The best thing for French media outlets to do is work with Bing to display their content exclusively through Bing for a reasonable payment and block Google from indexing it. ... How To Turn (Not Provided) Into Useful, Actionable Data · Search In Pics: Blue Google Win, Googlers At Dreamworks & Google Sand Mandala · Why Changed Goals Require Changed Metrics · Google Searchers 3x More Likely To Be Logged-in Than Bing · 6 Underrated Content Marketing Assets For B2B SEO ...
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Today In APIs: Google Maps building footprints, Bing Ads V7 to retire ...
By Romin Irani
Bing Google Maps now covers over 25 million building footprints across United States. Developers using Bing Ads V7 need to migrate to V8 by early 2013. Plus: Facebook announces SDK 3.0 Beta for Android, Twistory becomes another ...
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Site traffic, lead generation top SEO marketing objectives for next 12 ...
By Joe Meloni
MarketingSherpa reported that greater site traffic and lead generation are two primary goals for SEOmarketers. ... An additional 62 percent indicated that improved lead generation with SEO is a priority objectives as well. Looking back at the ...
Brafton

SEO Your Joomla! Website in 11 Super Easy Steps | SEOmoz
Is simply not quite as search engine friendly right out the box. In fact, I have found ... Your nerves and the SEO components you're going to install will thank you.
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Google Reports Practically 100% Of Manual Actions

Google Now Reports “Practically 100%” Of Manual Actions
Search Engine Land
Wondering if some human at Google has reviewed your web site and decided it deserves to be penalized in Google's search results? Google's now reporting such cases nearly 100% of the time. “We've actually started to send messages for pretty much every ...

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The Most Ingenious Way To Shop For New Furniture Is The One You'd Least ...
Business Insider
That's when I got the idea to try Bing. MSN's search rival has caught its fair share of flak for having fewer "plugged-in" users, a clunkier system and a bad habit of turning up irrelevant information. And while that's all true, the site's Image ...

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Google's Search for a Second Act
Yahoo! Finance (blog)
At it's core Google is a search engine ad company, "everything else is just an afterthought." Bullish Catalyst: YouTube. The most promising of the assorted under-the-headline business lines at Google is YouTube. Acquired in 2006 for about $1.8billion, ...

10 Reasons SEO Is Harder for Small Businesses
Business 2 Community
SEO is the same way. If you can devote more money to your search engine optimization efforts, you'll see better returns. Bigger companies have bigger budgets they can allocate towards hiring more employees, bringing in top-notch consultants, investing ...

NKF Awarded SEO Grant from the Conductor Foundation
Renal Business Today
NEW YORK—The Conductor Foundation, an initiative supported by enterprise SEO technology leader, Conductor, Inc., to increase the online visibility of nonprofit organizations through training workshops and grants, announced that the National Kidney ...

Leveraging The Brand-Building Powers Of SEO
MediaPost Communications
When marketers consider branding, search engine optimization typically doesn't come to mind.SEO has long been used as a vehicle for driving highly qualified visitors to brands' Web sites. ButSEO is no longer just about driving traffic; it's about ...

Five Go-To SEO Tools You Should Use Immediately
NBC Chicago (blog)
Search-engine optimization is a discipline practiced by people halfway between creative marketing roles and technical developer roles. SEO folks need to understand and be able to communicate with both sides of an organization. These five SEO tools are ...

NFL Week 7 Picks: Insert search engine optimized title here (something catchy!)
SB Nation Seattle
Managed a meek 8-6 last week, now 45-31 on season, so yeah, there's that. Week Seven is muddy waters, my friends. Some of these games don't have an up or down. If the NFL season were a lifeboat adrift at sea, right about now is when we'd start having ...

Qihoo Search: Dead on Arrival?
Search Engine Watch
Launched August 16, Qihoo Search was the latest search engine to hit China and became one of the largest traffic sources in only a matter of days but where do they sit now as the dust settled? Just a little background for you, Qihoo 360 Technology Co ...

HTML5 and SEO | Webdesigner Depot
By Ben Moss
Since the advent of the first web search engines, designers and developers have struggled with issues of how to increase their placement on a search engine results page. With the major search engines (Google, Bing, etc.) unwilling to reveal ...
Webdesigner Depot

Blekko Releases New Premium SEO Tools | Search Engine Journal
By Michelle Stinson Ross
Unlike other search engine analytic tools which only show general data on inbound links, our premium SEO tools provide full data reports that can be used to compare SEO stats between sites and direct SEO access from Blekko search result ...
Search Engine Journal

Blekko SEO Tools: Get Unparalleled Data to Help Drive Traffic | blekko
By ann
The new features include page analysis and SEO report cards, inbound links based on category, full link reports, and instant SEO access from blekko's search engine. As a subscriber, you can look up as many urls as you want, including SEO ...
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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: A new tool to disavow links

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: A new tool to disavow links
By Gary Illyes
Much like with rel=”canonical”, this is a strong suggestion rather than a directive—Google reserves the right to trust our own judgment for corner cases, for example—but we will typically use that indication from you when we assess links. Q: How soon after I upload a file will the links be ignored?..... It has happened to me (on a much smaller scale) where I was just starting out as an amazonaffiliate and was getting 150 hits/day with 3-6 sales/day. Then some bright spark hit my site with ...
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Google's Search Lead Can Become Apple's Advantage In 5 Years
Seeking Alpha
It is important to note that Siri at this time is not a fully fledged search engine. As a matter of a fact Siri can be instructed to use Google, Bing or Yahoo in retrieving its results. Furthermore, Google has also developed its own voice powered ...

SEO Positive Reviews The Release of Disavow Link Tool.
Equities.com
SEO Positive was established in 2007 in Chelmsford, Essex with the aim of bringing effective yet affordable online marketing services to companies from all industries and backgrounds. The company offers a huge range of services including search engine ...

Blekko Launches New Suite Of SEO Tools
WebProNews
The suite includes page analysis, SEO report cards, inbound links organized by categories, Blekko crawler sections reports and domain reports, instant SEO data and direct SEO access from Blekko'ssearch engine, AdSense and IP hosting information, a ...

Stop Selling SEO Short
Search Engine Journal
Google's changes over recent years, such as Caffeine and Google Panda updates, are mostly concerned with content and relevancy issues. Google's SSL changes are ...Yahoo and Bing have also moved away from “technical SEO” in favor of content marketing ...

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Should You Accept Guest Posts?
Search Engine Journal
It's no secret in the SEO world that Google's recent Panda and Penguin algorithm updates have killed off a number of backlink building techniques that were effective in the past. And with the elimination of these low-value tactics, SEOs have turned to ...

WebmasterWorld Sold To Jim Boykin's Internet Marketing Ninjas
Search Engine Land
One of the more popular Webmaster and SEO forums, WebmasterWorld, has been sold today to Jim Boykin's Internet Marketing Ninjas. Jim Boykin has been acquiring several forums this year, including all of the Developer Shed network including SEOChat ...

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IMN Explores Whether Auto Dealers Can Replace SEO with Social Content at ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
The impact of recent search engine changes on making informed SEO decisions. How to examine the intersection of search engines and social media and its impact on user engagement. How to structure marketing campaigns to encourage social sharing ...

3 SEO Expert Blogs You Should Be Reading Right Now
Business 2 Community
For too many marketers, SEO is something that other people do — it's either outsourced or perhaps relegated to an in-house specialist. That's unfortunate because SEO should really inform your overall marketing strategy in addition to vice versa. The ...

SEMPO Appeals to FTC for Updated Search Engine Disclosure Guidelines
Search Engine Watch
Search marketing industry association SEMPO has appealed to the FTC for a review and revision of the 2002 guidelines for search engine disclosure of paid advertisements in search results. ... Should the FTC undertake such a review, in addition to ...

The Democrats Prank Romney With Clever Search Engine Fun
By Fruzsina Eördögh
Manipulating key terms in Google search to display a message isn't new by any means - George Bush and the words "miserable failure" is one of the earliest, most successful examples of "Google bombing." And Rick Santorum's "Google ...
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Google's Link Disavow Tool And Negative SEO | WebProNews
By Chris Crum
Negative SEO also came up during the PubCon session in which Google's Matt Cutts revealed the tool. Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable has a liveblog from that. Here is his account of what Cutts had to say about the subject: ...
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Google Releases Disavow Links Tool For SEO | WordStream
By Larry Kim
After months of downplaying the impact of Negative SEO, Google launched a disavow links tool that proves Negative SEO is a real issue and creates a dangerous moral hazard for SEO.
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Cutting edge tactics and advice from SEOgadget to enhance your SEO strategy. Keep up to date with the latest link building, SEO tricks and strategies from ...
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