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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Apple Adds Yandex As Safari Search Choice In Some Countries

Apple is giving its users more search choices with its upcoming operating system releases -...

Yelp Now Uses More Data For ‘Nearby’ Suggestions

Yelp has made some changes to its Nearby feature to make it more useful and show suggestions for places that are near you. Suggestions are based not only on location, but also on p...

Bing Talks New Siri Integration

As previously reported, Apple unveiled some new Siri features for iOS 7...

Matt Cutts: Here’s What You’re Doing Wrong With ‘Disavow Links’ Tool

Google's Matt Cutts recently talked about Google's Disavow Links tool in the comments of a blog post, in which he suggested using it more like a machete than like a fine-toothed co...

Siri Gets More Knowledge Graph-Like With Wikipedia, Bing

While demonstrating iOS 7 at the Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced some new Siri features. Among them, integration of Bing web search results. Siri has a new int...

Google Can Predict Movie Sales With 94% Accuracy

Google this week released a new whitepaper that claims Google searches can predict...

Maurice Sendak Honored with Animated Google Doodle

Today, Google lets the wild rumpus start with an animated Doodle honoring famous American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak. Sendak was best known for his classic 1963 chil...

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