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The GIF Turns 26 Years Old On Saturday, Continues To Attract A Lot Of Searches
Saturday, June 15th marks the official 26th birthday of the GIF. Yahoo has pulled together some GIF search stats to celebrate. According to the company, 71% of searches for [gi...
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Google Makes More Changes To Image Search
Google has been making quite a few changes to Image Search lately. Earlier this year, they launched a major redesign, which webmasters and photographers have been less than thr...
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Facebook Is Killing Its Sponsored Search Results
Facebook is getting rid of sponsored search results as it cuts down on the available number of ad units. Facebook has been giving news outlets the following statement: In k...
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Google Adds 1,000 New Street View Destinations To Google Maps
Google announced a huge update to its Street View imagery today, with the addition of over 1,000 new locations around the world, including locations in Asia, Europe, Latin America,...
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Google Updates Messaging For Manual Webspam Actions
Google announced that it is now including examples of problems in its messaging to webmasters who have been hit with manual webspam penalties. Google's Matt Cutts actually mentione...
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Mobile Site Speed To Be A Google Ranking Factor?
Google has clearly had it with sites that have lackluster mobile experiences. This week, the company took to its Webmater Central blog to discuss "several ranking changes" it's pre...
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Google Tests Structured Data Error Reporting In Webmaster Tools
Google's Matt Cutts revealed in a Q&A at SMX Advanced on Tuesday night that Google is rolling out a test of a "structured data dashboard,"...
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Google: We Haven’t Updated Panda For A Month And A Half
Back in March, Google launched a Panda refresh. This is something they've done numerou...
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Here’s The Matt Cutts Discussion From SMX Advanced
Matt Cutts participated in a Q&A session with Danny Sullivan at the SMX Advanced conference. SMX has now made the video available to all via its YouTube channel, so if you couldn't...
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Google Goes After ‘Payday Loans’ And Other Spam With New Algorithm Update
Google's Matt Cutts announced that Google has "started" a new ranking update to help clean up some spammy queries. It's one of the changes that Cutts warned us about in that big vi...
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DuckDuckGo Has Doubled Its Daily Searches Over The Past Year
DuckDuckGo announced on Monday that it has broken its all-time high for traffic, reaching two million searchers per day. div.twitterditto344443049826480...
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Google Prepares ‘Several Ranking Changes’ For Sites Not Configured For Smartphone Users
Google announced on Tuesday that it plans to roll out "several ranking changes" in the near future, which address sites that are "misconfigured for smartphone users." Essential...
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Bing Maps Gets Tons Of New Bird’s Eye Imagery
Bing announced today that it has made some updates to Bing Maps, including the addition of its biggest batch of bird's eye imagery to date. They've added about 270 terabytes of dat...
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Can Bing Put A Bigger Dent In Google Searches?
Bing has been struggling to make a significant dent in Google's share of the search market since its launch, but Bing's share has been slowly growing over that time. While Bing sti...
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AdWords Now Lets You Do More With Auction Insights
Google has added some new functionality to the Auction insights report in AdWords. Now, in addition to running the report for a single keyword, you can run it for groups of keyword...
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