In what appears to be a second move to counter Blekko’s content farm exclusions, last night Google their “pretty big algorithmic improvement” to their ranking. I performed typical searches to check ranking on various sites I watch, and it would appear that Google has removed many of the same sites Blekko already had. Specifically, I’ve noticed the lesser placement of 123people.com and experts-exchange.com. A bunch of other scrapers also appear to be missing from the first page of the SERPs. [...]
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Categories: Google, Search Engine Optimization
Beck has been on a rant against Google this past week, accusing the search giant of being a “shill” for the US government. Now he’s claiming “not leading a boycott” but he’s “not so sure” that he wants “to use their products any more than” he has to. He even has a featured story on his site titled “From the show: Reduce your Google use.” While he won’t call it a boycott, he is certainly advocating to get his faithful [...]
Both Google and Bing put out toolbars of sorts. Bing’s announcement had an accompanying video created by the Bing project manager in everyday clothes, similar to a Google project manager video. But neither is copying the other, right?
Lately, there has been a lot of discussion on search neutrality and whether or not Google’s results favor its own products. There’ been even more discussion on whether or not search engines should be regulated by some government agency, both domestically and all over Europe. Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land has been covering this story at great length. His most recent coverage actually tested the waters, comparing search queries and Google’s results against that of a relatively recent search bias [...]
Categories: Google
If you have Android 2.2, you may have noticed an update to Google Voice Search. The big change is an opt-in service that allows Google to help recognize your patterns of speech. Like Dragon Naturally Speaking and other speech recognition software that have come before, you can train the speech engine – in this case Google – to recognize the nuances of your dialect or manner of speaking. If you’re not familiar with Android’s speech recognition, you speak to your [...]
