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The latest Webmaster Help video from Google takes on a timeless subject: small sites being able to outrank big sites. It happens from time to time, but how can it be done? Do you h...

Are You Buying The Answers Google Is Selling You?

Google is once again displaying some questionable content in its Knowledge Graph-style results, and displaying it as the answer to your question. Have you personally co...

Google Maps Lets You Browse Old Street View Imagery

Google has updated Google Maps to enable users to look at historical imagery using Street View. Users can browse imagery dating bak to 2007. This shows you how:...

Rufous Hummingbird Gets Top Billing In Google’s Earth Day Doodle

Google has an interesting doodle up for Earth Day. It's animated, and it shows several different animals as you click. You can click the search icon to learn more about each one. T...

Bing Now Shows Predictions For The Voice, American Idol & Dancing With The Stars

Microsoft announced announced that it is adding predictions to Bing search results pages for some queries. These are based on data from searches that have taken place and social in...

Google’s ‘Rules Of Thumb’ For When You Buy A Domain

Google has a new Webmaster Help video out, in which Matt Cutts talks about buying domains that have had trouble with Google in the past, and what to do. Here's the specific questio...

Yahoo Appears To Be Testing Its Own Version Of Knowledge Graph

Yahoo appears to be testing a new type of search results that resemble Google's Knowledge Graph and Bing's version of that. The test was spotted...

Google Starts Weekly Trends Roundup

Google announced that it will be sharing "a regular look back" at some of the top trending searches each Friday. We'll see if this lasts longer than the monthly lists of algorithms...

Schema.org Enters Its ‘Next Chapter’

In 2011, Google, Microsoft (Bing) and Yahoo, the big three search engines (Yandex later joined), teamed up...

Google Trends Adds Email Notifications

Google just announced that it's adding email notifications to Google Trends. You can subscribe to any topic, hot searches for any country, or any U.S. monthly top chart. You ca...

Cutts Talks SEO ‘Myths,’ Says To Avoid ‘Group Think’

In the latest "Webmaster Help" video, Matt Cutts talks about SEO "myths". He responds to this question: What are some of the biggest SEO Myths you see still being repeated...

Should Apple Replace Google Search With Yahoo On iPhones And iPads?

Rumor has it that Yahoo is focused on trying to convince Apple to switch the default search experience on iOS to Yahoo rather than Google. Would you like to see this ha...

Bing’s Answer To Google Now Comes To The Desktop

Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it is launching personalized cards on the Bing Homepage, which will let users keep track of news, weather, flights, stocks, and eventually mor...

Cutts On 404s Vs. 410s: Webmasters Shoot Often Themselves In The Foot

Google's latest Webmaster Help video, unlike the one before it, is very webmaster oriented. In it, Matt Cutts discusses how Google handles 404s versus how it handles 410s....

Google Considers Making SSL A Ranking Signal

About a month ago, Google's head of webspam Matt Cutts said at the Search Marketing Expo that he'd like to see Google make SSL site encryption a signal in Google's ranking algorith...

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