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Google is now releasing imagery from skyscrapers. The company announced today that it now has imagery from the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the world's tallest manmade structure. It's 82...

Google Said To Be Under FTC Review For Waze

Google acquired Israel-based navigation company Waze earlier th...

Should Google Penalize Content For Using Stock Images?

Use stock images on your site? Soon, you may find that it is hurting your rankings in Google. Maybe. Do you think rankings should suffer when content utilizes stock ima...

Google Adds Inventory-Aware Campaigns To DoubleClick Search

Today, Google announced the ability to automatically create and optimize DoubleClick Search campaigns based on Google Merchant Center feeds. "We know that keeping your search c...

First Day of Winter 2013 Celebrated With Google (21 Days Late In Australia)

It's the first day of winter in some parts of the world, and Google is showing a doodle where appropriate. Well, almost. Google is showing this doodle in Brazil, Australia, Chi...

Summer Solstice 2013 Celebrated With Google Doodle

Today is the Summer Solstice (or the official first day of summer) in many parts of the world, and Google is showing a doodle on its homepage in the appropriate countries to celebr...

Bing Launches ‘Bing Boards’ Search Experiment

Bing announced a new search experiment today called Bing Boards, which it describes as a way for people to create "highly specialized" content specifically for search. Bing notes...

Google Declares That It Does Not Hate Albania

Today's Webmaster Help video from Google is an interesting one. It's essentially Matt Cutts saying that Google does not hate Albania, after a user asks if this is the case. Mor...

Google Kills ‘Links’ In Its Ranking Message To Webmasters

Google has a help center article in Webmaster Tools specifically about "ranking". It's not incre...

Google Outlines What It Is Doing To Fight Rogue Online Pharmacies

Google posted a big update to its Public Policy blog today about its continued efforts to combat rogue online pharmacies. The update comes after...

Blekko Launches Izik For Smartphones, Adds Local Search Feature

Blekko has just launched a new smartphone version of its mobile search product izik, which until now was only for iPad and Android tablets. The app, now available in Apple's A...

Arrested Development May Have Helped Google Clean Up Its Search Results

Mitch Hurwitz, creator of the hit show Arrested Development, participated in...

Bing Improves Voice Search On Windows Phone

Bing has made some improvements to its voice recognition capabilities to make voice search on Windows Phone devices more accurate and faster. "Voice search is supposed to be se...

Wow, A Lot Of Stuff Just Happened In SEO

It's been a pretty big week for search and SEO news. There have been a lot of announcements, not only from Google, but from Google competitors. Let's recap, and discuss in the comm...

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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