Google announced today they are allowing people to block sites they don’t want to see in the search results. Now, hold your horses, this is a personalized result, not a global block. SEO’s are getting antsy, I can see it now. Here’s how it works: When you search for something on Google, click a link […]
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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How do I go viral? It’s the Holy Grail question of every content provider. The Google Mobile Ads team is trying to help. Enter the official Google Mobile Ads YouTube Channel. If you’re an app developer, get tips from others who have been there before you. Experts in viral apps provide advice and lessons
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In a dramatic shift from everything SEOs hold near and dear, the Webmaster Central blog today posted that Google can now index text inside Flash content.What does this mean? Google can read and index “almost any text a user can see” inside Flash content. Wow. What… really? Does this mean we can tell our clients
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As been widely reported, Google introduced a new feature called Instant Previews. In a nutshell, Google Preview is being dubbed as the next step in the evolution of speeding up search (after Google Instant). However with it comes a new layout that has moved the maps location box info all around. This has two implications:
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Organic results appear unchanged. PPC ads will very likely have more impressions by Google’s own primary data and definition of impression. How will search marketers really be affected by Google Instant?
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