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Yelp announced some big news late on Tuesday. They've increased the call limit on their API to 25,000 per day, and made it easier for developers to use, in addition to opening it u...

Google To Note When Pages May Not Work In Mobile Results

Google is going to start letting mobile searchers know when results include pages that may not work on their devices. On a device that doesn't support Flash, for example (which inc...

Google Maps For iOS Gets An Update

Yelp has been complaining about trying to compete with Google for years now, but recently, it...

Latest Google Search Quality Rating Guidelines Leaked

As you may know, Google has a group of people called quality raters, who evaluate the quality of sets of search results. Here's a video of Matt Cutts discussing how Google uses the...

Should Google Be Regulated Like A Utility?

The idea of tech giants like Google being regulated like utilities isn't a new one, but the topic is back in the public conversation this week, as Germany is considering treating G...

Google Webmaster Tools Gets New rel-alternate-hreflang Feature

Google announced on Monday that it is adding a new feature to Google Webmaster Tools to make it easier to debug rel-alternate-hreflang annotations. These are the attributes Google...

Google Acknowledges What A Mess This Is

The whole "right to be forgotten" thing is an absolute mess, and Google knows it. Google always knew it would be, which is why it always opposed the concept, but now it has no choi...

Google Glass Was Made For Search

Babak Parviz, known as the creator of Google Glass, who led the project until Google replaced him with Ivy Ross recently, spoke at the Wearable Technologies Conference this week. H...

Groupon Finds ‘Direct’ Traffic Is Really Organic Search

Groupon ran an experiment to try and figure out where "direct" traffic that appears in analytics programs is really coming from. Gene McKenna, director of product management at Gro...

Apple Continues To Distance Itself From Google

Apple has taken one more step towards distancing itself from Google. The company has now started incorporating its own Apple Maps on the iCloud.com beta site and for the "Find my i...

‘America’ Director Sends Legal Letter To Google Over Search Results

Google has reportedly received a letter from the lawyers of Dinesh D'Souza whose film America is not showing up in search results how they'd like. The Hollywood Reporte...

Google Has a Jesus-Shaped Hole in Its Graph

We already know that Google hates America, so it should be no surprise that the larg...

Google Adds Street View Imagery Of Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship

Google continues to add Street View imagery to more places yet to be mapped. It's had Street View-style indoor imagery for many places for quite some time, but now it's doing cruis...

Matt Cutts Is Disappearing For A While

Just ahead of the holiday weekend, Google's head of webspam Matt Cutts announced that he is taking leave from Google through at least October, which means we shouldn't be hearing f...

Google Continues Link Network Attack

It would appear that Google's attack on European link networks is not over (if it ever will be). Google has been penalizing link networks on the Internet with a vengeance over...

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