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Just when you thought you were out, they've pulled you back in. Google has updated its data for Toolbar PageRank, after giving indication that it likely wouldn't happen before...

Google Takes Action On More Link Networks

Google has been cracking down on link networks, penalizing the networks and the sites that take advantage of them to artificially inflate their link profiles, all year. Google'...

Major Search Engine Stops Using Links For Ranking (For Commercial Queries)

Yandex, the top search engine in Russia, has reportedly announced that it no longer counts links as a ranking factor when delivering search results for commercial queries. Thi...

Bing Maps Preview Is Now Available On Windows 8.1

Bing Maps continues its journey of constant self improvement today with the release of the la...

Google Now Searches Across Apps On Android

About a month ago, Google announced that it would start indexing deep links in Android apps just like websites, so it could return results from apps in search results for mobile us...

Matt Cutts Talks Content Stitching In New Video

Google has a new Webmaster Help video out about content that takes text from other sources. Specifically, Matt Cutts responds to this question: Hi Matt, can a site still do...

Google’s Knowledge Graph Now Includes Car Knowledge

Google has added cars to the Knowledge Graph. It will now show you info about vehicles you search for just like it will for actors, musicians, food, medicine, etc. "You may alr...

Consumer Watchdog Complains About Google Again

Frequent Google critic Consumer Watchdog (the ones behind the legendary E...

Google Adds Smartphone Crawl Errors To Webmaster Tools (This Is Important Considering Recent Ranking Changes)

Google announced that it has expanded the Crawl Errors feature in Webmaster Tools to help webmasters identify pages on their sites that show smartphone crawl errors. This is go...

Google May Have Lost NORAD, But It’s Still Tracking Santa This Year

After years of collaboration with Google, NORAD decided to partner with Microsoft instead last year to release its Santa Tracker app exclusively on Windows 8. That's not going to c...

Google Trends Becomes More Intelligent

Google has introduced new topic reports in Google Trends aimed at giving users smarter information about the search queries they are seeking. Google gives the examples of "rice...

Apple Acquires Topsy, Which Recently Launched A Twitter Search Engine

Apple has acquired social media analytics firm Topsy Labs for over $200 million, according to a...

Yahoo And Ron Burgundy Reveal Top Searches, Tumblr Blogs Of 2013

It's that time of year. Yahoo has released its 2013 Year in Review, and revealed its top searches o...

Yelp Gets Friendly With Amazon And The Kindle Fire HDX

Yelp has been working with Amazon on a new Yelp app for the Kindle Fire HDX, and it's now available on the device right out of the box. Yelp compares the partnership to those i...

Here Are Your Top Bing Searches Of 2013

A person's search history can tell a lot about that person so it only stands to reason that a nation's search history can do the same. While not everybody may use Bing,...

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