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Bing has launched a new series of articles called “Search Quality Insights” which will give readers a behind-the-scenes look at the happenings of its search engine.
Bing’s Harry Shum says that while Bing’s quality improvements are often subtle they can be improvements that are the results of years of research, so the Bing team want to share their insights into…
Google has devised an interesting game plan which will enable users to access PC search histories on their mobile browsers (Android, iPhone).
Once logged in on both places, with web history enabled, you will easily be able to conduct a local search on your PC and get the information on your smartphone. This is really a good innovation and convenient…
If you are using free web hosting services or provide one, Google has some important tips to avoid penalties and being removed from Google’s index.
Recent Google Panda updates have seen Google on the look out for spamming web site’s which do not add “sufficient value” to its users. Tje introduction of a spam algorithm in the Panda update in…
At the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona Google’s Head of Mobile Sales, Jason Spero, announced some new global Smartphone user survey data and 2012 predictions.
The data was the result of a Google-sponsored survey across countries like USA, UK, France, Germany, Spain and Japan where each country had around 1000 respondents.
The results from the survey show a clear…
Here is some big news from Google – it has announced a new Panda update, 3.3
This launch refreshes data in the Panda system, making it more accurate and more sensitive to recent changes on the web.
As per Google’s announcement, the Panda data update took place on February 27th and it included the discontinuation of a link evaluation signal.…
Before you pay to have your website listed in as many directories as you can find in order to get more traffic, stop for a moment and consider how these paid listings could adversely effect your SEO results.
Luckily, Matt Cutts is back again with his latest video answering the question “are paid directories held to the same standards as…
Google have just released a full list of 40 different search quality improvements launched during February. According to the post in their Inside Search blog, the 40 changes are a new monthly record.
The changes impact all areas of search including algorithm tweaks and the way Google evaluates links.
According to Google,
Each individual change is subtle
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According to a research publication by EMarketer Inc., Google’s display-advertising business is growing in leaps and bounds and is expected to surpass that of Facebook Inc. by 2013.
Facebook inched above Yahoo! to become the leading display ad-selling internet company in the US last year, and is expected to continue leading the market in 2012 with a revenue of $2.58…
Bing recently announced an update to its search results that are set to rival Google’s controversial personalized search feature, Search Plus Your World.
A new feature called ‘Linked Pages’ has been introduced that lets you link websites related to you on Bing. Now your friends looking for you online can find what you want them to find. You…
The 14th Feb 2012 edition of Microsoft’s software security update brought nine security bulletins that collectively address 21 software vulnerabilities, however the update didn’t run as smoothly as planned.
Two of Microsoft’s anti-virus programs, Microsoft Security Essentials and its business-market sibling Microsoft Forefront, mistakenly flagged Google.com as malicious, leaving millions of customers unable to get to the world’s most…