Search Engine News

Google has done it again. It is not done with slapping sites with Panda. It will now go after sites that have too many ads above the fold. Let’s face it. We are all tired of spam-looking websites with too many ads before you get to see any decent content. Google plans to change that: [...]

By now, everyone has seen the latest changes that Google has made to its search engine. The company has deeply integrated its Google+ network into its search engine, giving its users the chance to do more complete searches (search + social). Of course, not everyone has liked the recent change. Twitter is certainly not happy [...]

The RIAA and their buddies are not only after censoring the Internet and going after independent sites and online businesses, they are not too happy with Google either. The RIAA is claiming that Google has a special responsibility to fight copyright infringement. The entity agrees that Google has taken some modest steps to fight piracy [...]

Content is king. No matter how many people try to deny this very fact, your best bet as a SEO is to develop fresh, valuable content for your websites on a daily basis (sometimes twice a day). Google’s freshness algorithm is slowly but surely affecting queries that we all search for. Of course, the quality [...]

Anyone who has been following the recent changes to Google knows that the search engine results are currently a mess. Google is adding new improvements to its algorithm all the time. Unfortunately, the rise of Google+ and the “freshness” algorithm recently launched by Google have not improved the quality of the search results. In fact, [...]

Google has been making changes to its algorithm for months now. We have seen a good number of Panda updates in the past couple of quarters. Google has announced that it has made further changes to its algorithm to give priority to fresh content for certain queries. This changes is expected to affect about 36% [...]

The reign of Yahoo! search engine as an independent engine is fully over. We all know Yahoo! was going to be fully served by Bing sooner rather than later.  When you search on Yahoo.com, you won’t be getting Yahoo! exclusive search results. The process is complete everywhere around the globe except in Korea. That will [...]

Since Google+ was launched a while ago, Google+ users have been searching for ways to search through all the content added to G+. Google has already added a neat search feature to this community. Topsy has introduced a new tool that lets visitors search through Google+ content. Topsy already has a real-time search engine for [...]

Google has been dominating the search engine world for quite some time. The company still holds a huge lead over its rivals. But Bing is slowly rising in marketshare. One has to give Microsoft credit for trying its hardest to make Bing competitive against Google. The recent report by Hitwise shows Google losing 1% marketshare [...]

The internet landscape was not always as competitive as it is today. More people are trying to make money online by publishing their own content these days. Unfortunately, not all of these people play the game ethically. I have seen many publishers who just lift content ideas from their competitors. It is always discouraging to [...]