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Google put out a pretty interesting Webmaster Help video today with Matt Cutts answering a question about a topic a lot of people would like to understand better - how Facebook and...

Yahoo Search Is Now Encrypted By Default

Yahoo has switched to secure search by default, meaning that the search traffic your analytics program is painting for you is even less complete than it already was. As you may...

Can Search Improvements Make Pinterest More Valuable To Businesses?

Pinterest is becoming a better search engine, and it's likely only getting started. Have you ever used Pinterest specifically to search for something? Do you think it i...

Stone: Jelly Will Probably Get A Search Feature, And Search Is Probably How It Will Monetize

Biz Stone appeared on Bloomberg Television today to talk about Jelly. Bloomberg is sharing the interview, which gives us some insight into some possible directions Stone and his te...

Expedia Apparently Penalized By Google For Linking Practices

It looks like Google has penalized travel site Expedia, one its competitors, which is part of the FairSearch Coalition, which regularly lobbies for antitrust action to be taken aga...

Martin Luther King, Jr. Google Doodle Tradition Continues

Google regularly features a doodle for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and that tradition continues today. This is the tenth year that Google has run a doodle for the day, but act...

Dian Fossey (Of ‘Gorillas In The Mist’ Fame) Gets A Google Doodle

Dian Fossey, the famed zoologist and gorilla researcher known for her book, Gorillas in the Mist (which was turned into a movie starring Sigourney Weaver as Fossey), is th...

Matt Cutts Discusses The Google Algorithm

Google has released a new Webmaster Help video in which head of webspam Matt Cutts discusses the Google algorithm and how it ranks results on a page. More specifically, he responds...

The British Museum Honored With A Google Doodle On 255th Anniversary

Google is celebrating the 255th anniversary of the British Museum with a doodle on its homepage in the UK. The museum, established in 1753, opened to the public in 1759, and cu...

Google Appeals Fine Over Privacy In France

Last week, CNIL, France's data protection watchdog, fined Google as much as is in its power...

EU Gives Google ‘Weeks’ To Offer New Concessions

The big European Google antitrust probe continues, but may be getting closer to a resolution. Either that or we may be getting closer to formal charges being brought against the In...

Secure Search Is Now On Bing, But It’s Completely Optional For Now

In September of last year, Google began to enabl...

Microsoft Scroogles Danny Sullivan Out Of A Scroogled Mug

It looks like Microsoft is "scroogling" the people that are actually buying into its "Scroogled" campaign. Back in Nov...

This Is How Dumb We Must Sound To Google

College Humor has put out a pretty humorous video pointing out how stupid search queries would sound if you spoke them aloud to a person. In this case, Google is a person,...

Detroit Lions Head Coach Hire Highlights Google’s Struggle With Real Time

Once again, Google is showing that its Knowledge Graph does not update fast enough. During the World Series last fall, somebody vandalized the Wikipedia page for the St. Louis...

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