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It is truly the end of an era. Yahoo officially announced that it's killing off the Yahoo Directory. Okay, maybe that era technically ended a long time ago, but it's really over no...

New Google Panda Update Should Help Small Sites

There's officially a new Panda update rolling out. If you have a small or medium-sized site, Google is suggesting this could potentially help you, though we've heard that before....

Google Flight Search Gets Better Interface

Google announced some changes to its Flight Search offering on mobile devices to make it easier to see your options by grouping together similar flights. Google explains in a...

Bing Adds A Couple Features For iOS 8

Apple released iOS 8 last week, and many apps are adding features that take advantage of its specific capabilities. These include Microsoft's Bing app, which has added a new transl...

New Google Feature Could Keep Traffic From Websites

Google introduced a new feature for search results pages this week, which displays so-call...

First Day Of Autumn Celebrated With Google Doodle

The first day of autumn is being celebrated by fans of the season and Google alike. The search engine is displaying an animated doodle in honor of the occasion....

EU Still Waiting On Google To Come Up With New Proposal

Google has offered a handful of proposals in the years-long antitrust probe in Europe to avoid having to pay as much as $6 billion in fines, but continues to have to go back to the...

Google Introduces Structured Snippets

Google announced the launch of "structured snippets," a new feature that puts "facts" in the snippets of web results. As with Google's Knowledge Graph, these facts may or may not b...

Google Could Use Your TV Viewing As A Ranking Signal

It seems almost crazy to think that Google could deliver your search results based on what you're watching on TV at any point in time, but it's not out of the realm of possibility,...

FairSearch Shares Panel Videos About Google Probe

The FairSearch coalition convened this week in Washington D.C. for a panel to discuss U.S. and EU competition policies, and the next steps in the European Google investigation....

New Google Penguin Update Coming, Will Refresh Faster

Google's Penguin update is notorious for taking an extremely long time to get refreshed, leaving sites negatively impacted by it out of luck until Google finally pushes a refresh t...

Bing Reveals URL Keyword Stuffing Spam Filtering

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...

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