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Bing revealed in a blog post this week that it rolled out an update to its algorithm a few months ago that targets URL keyword stuffing. They had alluded to such an update in anoth...

Netflix Unveils Instant Search Feature

Netflix announced the launch of a new search experience for its website, which includes an "instant search" tool, which gives users faster access to titles as well as actors. T...

Google Webmaster Academy Expands To More Languages

Google launched Webmaster Academy in 2012 as a way to help small businesses i...

New Google Panda Update Refresh Suspected

Google hasn't confirmed that it rolled out a new Panda refresh, but signs point to one hitting on September 5th (Friday), according to Search Engine Roundtable and SEOs. Barry...

Leo Tolstoy: Russian Author Celebrated with Google Doodle

Today, Google is honoring famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy with a Doodle documenting some of his most important works, novels like Anna Karenina and War and Peace...

EU: Google Must Make Additional Concessions

It's starting to look like the EU's antitrust probe into Google may never end, as the European Commission has now said that Google must once again make more concessions. Google...

Bing Takes Image Product Offline After Getty Suit

As reported last week, Getty Images is suing Microsoft over a tool the latter r...

Google’s Schmidt: We Built Google For Users, Not Websites

Google has said it before, but now it has said it again: "We built Google for users, not websites." Think you got a raw deal from a recent algorithm change? Sorry, they built G...

Microsoft Gives MSN A Big Overhaul

Microsoft announced a new rebuilding of MSN, which is geared toward a "mobile-first" and "cloud-first" experience. The top of the page includes quick access to what Microsoft i...

Google Settles Photographer Copyright Suit

Google announced that it has settled with a group of photographers, visual artists, and affiliated associations over a lawsuit related to copyrighted material in Google Books....

Google Makes It Easier For People To Search For Your Content

Google announced that it's now showing a new and improved sitelinks search box within search results, which will make it easier to find specific content on third-party websites fro...

Getty Images Sues Microsoft Over Bing Image Tool

Getty Images is suing Microsoft over a tool the latter recently launched enabling people to embed slideshows of images from Bing Image Search on their websites. The tool is cal...

Were Your Google Authorship Efforts All For Nothing?

Google introduced authorship support over three years ago, leading webmasters and anyone concerned with...

Google Blog Search Goes Away (Kind Of)

Google Blog Search is no more - at least as a standalone offering from the search engine. Search Engine Land...

Google Just Killed Authorship Entirely

Google announced that it is no longer using authorship markup or displaying author information in search results, saying that it just wasn't as useful as expected. Actually, it...

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