George Bush is a Miserable Failure Again, in Google’s Knowledge Base
I’ve written about Google Bombs in the past, and how a bio page featuring President George Bush ranked highly on a search for “Miserable Failure” as a result of a Google Bomb, in a post from 2011 titled How a Search Engine Might Fight Googlebombing.
In a post from earlier today, Nemek Nowaczyk wrote a […]
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Google Structured Data Dashboard Beta
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, announced at SMX Advanced a new beta application is testing within Google Webmaster Tools named the Structured Data Dashboard. The new dashboard will show webmasters more errors and reporting based on their schema, rich snippet and structured data…
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Google: Site Speed Penalty Coming To Mobile Web Sites
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, announced at SMX Advanced that Google is likely going to roll out a version of the site speed ranking factor for mobile sites. Back in 2010, Google said site speed is a ranking factor. Google’s Matt Cutts said expect something similar to come to…
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Google Webmaster Notifications Now To Show Example URLs
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, announced at SMX Advanced that starting in the next day or so, Google Webmaster Tools notifications will now include example URLs of problem areas. For example, if you receive a manual penalty for unnatural links, Google will provide a few sample…
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Google’s Panda Dance: Matt Cutts Confirms Panda Rolls Out Monthly Over 10 Of 30 Days
At SMX Advanced, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, announced that the Panda algorithm is still being updated roughly every month but that update is rolled out slowly throughout the month. It is like a Google Dance, but in this case, a Panda Dance. What happens is Google will run the…
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Market Share: Bing Continues Gains, Yahoo “Stabilized,” Google Flat
Financial analysts are releasing May comScore search market share data to their clients, which means we’re getting an early look at what the metrics firm will be generally exposing in the next 24 hours. Here are the numbers — comparing April and May of 2013 as well as May 2012: Google:…
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Google Pay Day Loan Algorithm: Google Search Algorithm Update To Target Spammy Queries
Google has officially launched a new search update to target “spammy queries” such as pay day loan, pornographic and other heavily spammed queries. Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, announced this on Twitter saying “We just started a new ranking update today for some…
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SMX Advanced Live Blog: You&A Conversation With Matt Cutts
Day one of our SMX Advanced show is almost over, but there’s one last session still to come: the traditional “You & A with Matt Cutts” keynote session. Search Engine Land’s founding editor, Danny Sullivan, will be sitting down for a lengthy chat with Matt Cutts, the…
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Ding Ding. Google v Payday Loans SERPS in the UK
Google has declared they are rolling out more changes to combat ‘spammy’ SERPS (Search Engine Results Pages) like “payday loans”. What’s interesting is Google doesn’t often tell us a specific SERP is getting cleaned up. It’s a bit like a fight after school. It’s worth watching I think if you are interested in SEO. We just started a […]
Bing Maps Adds New Bird’s Eye Imagery, Venue Maps & A Report A Problem Feature
Bing Maps announced a number of new additions today, including a more expansive collection of Bird’s Eye Imagery locations, new Venue Maps and a Report a Problem feature. According to Bing, the search engine has published 1,452,948 sq km of Bird’s Eye images from around the world with…
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 11, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: DuckDuckGo Passes 2 Million Daily Searches DuckDuckGo, the upstart search engine that hangs it hat on protecting its users’ privacy, hit a new milestone on…
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SPONSOR MESSAGE: 2013 Digital Trends Report
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SPONSOR MESSAGE: 2013 Digital Trends Report
This white paper discusses: 2013 plans for 700 top digital marketers Making personalization valuable, not intrusive Balancing inspired content with smart algorithms Download now »
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DuckDuckGo Passes 2 Million Daily Searches
DuckDuckGo, the upstart search engine that hangs it hat on protecting its users’ privacy, hit a new milestone on Monday: its first day with two million direct searches. According to the company’s traffic page, DuckDuckGo saw 2,211,203 direct searches on Monday — up about 400,000…
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DuckDuckGo Passes 2 Million Daily Searches
DuckDuckGo, the upstart search engine that hangs it hat on protecting its users’ privacy, hit a new milestone on Monday: its first day with two million direct searches. According to the company’s traffic page, DuckDuckGo saw 2,211,203 direct searches on Monday — up about 400,000…
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Google Officially Buys Waze, Will Integrate Technologies
Google announced they’ve officially acquired Waze, the popular app based social driven mapping technology. This was expected and the rumors are Google paid $1.3 billion for the Israeli startup company. The big questions are (1) will this acquisition be allowed and if so (2) will Google allow…
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Branded Videos Shared More Than 500,000 Times Every 24 Hours
New research demonstrates that social video recommendations significantly impact traditional brand metrics. Enjoyment of a video correlates positively with all tested brand metrics in the sales funnel, including favorability and purchase intent.
Google: Pages With Bad Mobile SEO Won’t Rank As Well In Future
Google announced this morning they are rolling out search ranking changes to help recognize common mistakes webmasters make with their mobile configurations and auto-correct them in the search results. Google’s Yoshikiyo Kato and Pierre Far said: To improve the search experience for…
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Big AdWords Auction Insights Update: Now Get Competitive Data On Campaigns, Ad Groups, Keywords
In the biggest update since the Auction Insights Report last year, Google AdWords advertisers now have the ability to run reports on more than just a single keyword to learn how their ad performance compares to the competition. The Auction Insights Rep…
3 Reasons Why Deploying Hreflang Shouldn’t Be An Auto-Reflex!
I apologize for talking yet again about hreflang — but there is an important point I really want to make for those working in geo-targeting. For some, “hreflang” is becoming an auto-reflex, and that’s definitely not helping their international success. Allow me to explain…
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