Archive for "search results"

Searchers in the US using Google may have noticed a change in the layout of search result pages. The layout now has a simpler and cleaner design that allows users to quickly hone in on the information they are searching for. This simplified layout now works on a variety of devices including phones, tablets and personal computers. Until now, when users searched Google, the layout …

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Google and Bing have been doing battle for search engine supremacy for a long time now. However, although Bing has a lot of catching up to do to even get close to the popularity and market share of Google, it still has managed to pull off a blinder of sorts with its latest Bing It On Challenge.

Bing launched the Bing It On Challenge to …

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Have you ever had a problem finding something, and no matter what you typed into the search engine box, you just were not getting the results you wanted? How frustrating was it to not find what you needed, and how much extra time did you spend trying to use the exact keywords in an effort to find the information? Well, you can say goodbye to …

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Google has been busy this past week making improvements to their rich snippet testing tool including changing the name to “The Structured Data Testing Tool”.

The tool has been improved so as to better reflect what the search result will actually look like and has expanded the types of structured data supported.

According to Google’s official announcement, there are three major changes:

We’ve improved how

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Did you notice the Google algorithm update last week?

It was released last Friday (14th September) with very little fanfare. It wasn’t as serious as a Panda or Penguin update, but webmasters still found it had quite an effect on their rankings.

Here is some of the chatter from a WebmasterWorld forum post on the topic:

We saw a 50% increase in our Google referrals

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Bing has laid down a challenge to searchers who use Google’s search engine – a blind test to see which search engine performs best.

Called “Bing It On”, the test allows searches to compare search results side by side. Bing vs Google style. Microsoft claims that results from the test so far show that people prefer Bing by 2:1 over Google. Do you believe this …

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Google search results will now be “fresher” after the search giant released changes to its algorithm recently.

The update, which seeks to build on the Caffeine web indexing system, has said to be affecting approximately 35% of all search queries. For example, if you search for “upcoming Brooklyn theater shows” Google understands that the search results should not include shows from last year.

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Google recently launched a new Chrome toolbar, Google Related, which shows you useful and interesting content related to your search while you browse the web.

As you roll the cursor over the thin bar along the bottom of your screen, Google will provide videos, maps, reviews and other information relevant to the search. Users can also share their search results with friends by using …

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Back in 2009 when Google users wished to receive live news from around the world in a Google search, the company launched ‘Realtime Search’. Most of the results (real time news) was aggregated from social networking channels like Twitter, Facebook and a few other such sites.

However, after failing to reach an agreement with Twitter last month, Google had to pull the pin on Realtime …

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Google Instant Preview, a feature that was till now limited to desktop searches, is now available for Android and iOS devices enabled devices also.

Google’s launched the instant preview feature for their PC users last November so that searchers could view snapshots of the web sites in the search result page without having to enter each page individually. This feature is useful for those who …

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