Archive for "Google search"

Bing has done it again. According to the latest figures released by ComScore Microsoft’s Bing search engine continues to gain upon its rivals in the U.S. search marketplace.

ComScore’s monthly qSearch report revealed that in comparison to a market share of 65.7% in March, Google sites accounted for 65.4%(loss of 0.3 percentage points) of the explicit core…

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A recent study by BrightEdge has revealed that the social profiles of most leading brands don’t rank well in Google.

While most of the leading consumer brands are investing a lot of time and money to increase their presence on the search engines they are doing very little to increase their social media presence by correctly optimizing their Facebook and…

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The team at Google has been busy this past week with two new product announcements: Instant View for Places Search and Google Search app for iPhone.

The latest product to be instant-tized by Google is ‘Places’ allowing users to view real time results for the place as they type.

With ‘Instant View for Places ‘, Google promises to display results…

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Unbeknown to many people, Google offers a wide range of “search operators” to help streamline and refine your search results.

When you consider that Google contains billions of web pages in its index, search operators are an important way to ensure your query will deliver relevant results.

Search operators also provides some great info and research for SEO purposes.

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It’s been a busy week in the Google camp, with a range of tweaks, new releases and enhancements.

The first range of enhancements involve tweaks to Google’s web search engine results pages (SERPs).

Users will now be greeted with 2 new navigation options integrated directly into the listings area.

• 1. Brand Refinement in Search Results.

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Personalized search was a Google enhancement released a couple of years ago which promised to provide a more relevant and useful search experience to users. The only catch was you had to be signed in and have web history enabled.

Late last week, Google extended the personalized search offering to everyone – removing the need to be…

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As the end of 2009 draws to a close, everyone starts sharing their predictions for the year ahead. So to get the ball rolling, Google’s Matt Cutts has weighed in with his predictions for search over the next 3 years.

In true Matt Cutt’s style, he has used video to provide his insights to a viewer’s…

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