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Google is being accused of employing a double standard for its handling of web spam and enabling one penalized site to recover speedily from a manual action. While the search giant...

Pinterest Acquires VisualGraph And Its Visual Search Technology

Pinterest announced today that it has acquired VisualGraph, an image recognition and visual search technology startup. "VisualGraph’s two employees -- founder Kevin Jing and co...

Cutts On What You Might Not Have Noticed About Google’s ‘How Search Works’ Site

Google has put out a new Webmaster Help video featuring Matt Cutts talking about some things "you might not have noticed" about the company's...

Rap Genius Climbs Out Of Google Penalty Box

As you may have heard, lyrics site Rap Genius was hit with a big Google penalty around Christmas time for unnatural linking practices. The site was telling people they could be...

Google Has A Lot To Say About Duplicate Content These Days

Duplicate content has been an issue in search engine optimization for many years now, yet there is still a lot of confusion around what you can and can't do with it, in terms of st...

Should Apple Move On From Google Search?

Could Apple take on Google in search? Apple has been making some rather interesting moves of late, and some of them are search-related, and lead one to wonder if Apple could legiti...

Crossword Inventor Arthur Wynne Gets A Google Doodle

Arthur Wynne, inventor of the crossword puzzle, is the subject of a doodle on Google's homepage today as it honors 100 years of crossword puzzles. It's a fun one. It transforms...

Google Says It’s Now Working To ‘Promote Good Guys’

Google's Matt Cutts says Google is "now doing work on how to promote good guys." More specifically, Google is working on changes to its algorithm that will make it better at pr...

Google’s Santa Tracker Goes Live On Christmas Eve

Earlier this month, Google revealed its new Santa Tracker for 2013...

Google: Your Various ccTLDs Will Probably Be Fine From The Same IP Address

Ever wondered if Google would mind if you had multiple ccTLD sites hosted from a single IP address? If you're afraid they might not take kindly to that, you're in for some good new...

Google Trends Gets A Few Updates

Google announced that it has made some updates to Google Trends, including a new homepage, more countries for top charts and hot searches, and a faster mobile experience. The c...

Webmasters Think Google Has Eased Up On EMD Sites

Back in 2012, Google launched the EMD update, which the company described as...

Google Improves URL Removal Tool

Google has launched an improved version of its URL removal tool in Webmaster Tools, aimed at making it easier to requ...

Bing And OneNote Can Work Together To Help You Learn How To Cook

Back in November, Microsoft released a new version of OneNote for Windows 8 devices wi...