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Should Google and Facebook Be Filtering Our Content For Us?
Is the personalization of the Internet a step backwards? Is the wealth of information that is accessible to us being reduced because the products we use are filtering it all so hea...
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Google on Duplicate Content Concerns Regarding Blog Posts on the Home Page
As you may know, Google's Matt Cutts often posts videos on the company's Webmaster Help YouTube channel, answering us...
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Google Shows Gay Pride With Search Rainbow
If you didn't know the history, you might think that Google was trying to be funny today. When you search the word "gay" or "lesbian," your search results are adorned with a curve...
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Google Panda 2.2 Goes Live
Update: A Google spokesperson tells WebProNews, "We're continuing to iterate on our Panda algorithm as part of our commitment to returning high-quality sites to Google users....
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Google AdMeld Deal Draws DoJ Scrutiny
Earlier this week, Google officially announced that it has agreed to acquire ad optimization firm AdMeld, and now, as expected it appears it will draw government scrutiny. Pretty s...
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Should Google Display Click Counts on Ads?
Google is testing an AdWords feature that displays how many clicks an ad has received for a particular advertiser. It's unclear how widespread the testing is, and whether or not Go...
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Google Adds HTTP Header Support to rel= “canonical”
Google is now supporting link rel="canonical" relationships specified in HTTP headers. Evidently this was heavily requested, as the feature is in response to webmaster feedback....
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Google Brings Organized Lists to Search
Google has had a busy week of launching features. Today, the company announced that it is now showing collections of top referenced items for some topics that are searched. Pro...
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Google Launches “Me on the Web”
Google has released a new feature called "Me on the Web." It's a reputation management tool accessible from the Google Dashboard, underneath the Account details. Google says th...
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Panda Victim Xomba “Dances on the Bones of Content Farms”
Earlier this year, we had a conversation with John Citrone, editor of the online wr...
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Yahoo Does App Search
Who says Yahoo doesn't care about search anymore? The company has introduced two new ways to search for mobile apps: Yahoo App Search for the PC and the AppSpot mobile app for iPho...
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Google City Pages – Company Continues Cranking Out Local Features
Google has launched new city pages for Portland, Austin, San Diego, and Madison, but will continue to add to the list. City Pages are essentially a place users can go and see infor...
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Google on How Instant Pages Affect Analytics
Yesterday, Google introduced Instant Pages (among several other things), which is a new upcoming feature of...
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Google Launches My Places Tab on Google Maps
Google announced the launch of a new tab on Google Maps, called "My Places," which gives users a place where they can see the places they've starred on Google Maps, rated on Google...
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25 Ways to Get Another Site to Link to Yours
This guest post was co-authored by Ken McGaffin and Susan Payton There are many ways to get other sites to link to yours, which helps in boosting your ranking on search...
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