In a deal with LyricFind, Google is now displaying lyrics in search results starting immediately. LyricFind is the world’s largest lyric licensing service with over 4,000 publishers in its catalog. Lyrics will be seen both in Google’s search results and…
Google Introduces Rich Card Mobile Search Results
Attention webmasters, you now need to make sure that your site is Rich Card friendly so that you can gain more Google search referrals. Google has already launched Rich Cards for two search categories, recipes and movies. More content topics…
Bing, Like Google, Will Now Yank Revenge Porn Results
Microsoft has joined Google in taking a stand against revenge porn. The company has announced that upon request, it will pull search results from Bing that direct users to sexually explicit content shared without the subject’s consent. It’ll also remove…
Amazon Search Results Could Be ‘Confusing’ Says Court
If you head over to Amazon and search for MTM watches, you’ll find plenty of results … for Casio watches, Luminox watches, and Suunto watches. Amazon doesn’t sell MTM watches, yet it returns over 50 results for that search. According…
Google Adds Revenge Porn to Short List of Things It Removes from Search Results
Google’s philosophy about what it surfaces in its search results has always been pretty laissez-faire. For the most part, Google prefers to “organize the world’s information” and “reflect the whole web”. To that end, Google only removes content from search…
As Google Begins to Forget, Do You Really Have a ‘Right to Be Forgotten’?
The internet doesn’t forget. Ask anyone who’s been punished by the brutal truth of the web. The internet doesn’t care that you didn’t really mean what you said in that tweet. The internet doesn’t care that you were super drunk…
Bing Adds Timelines To Search Results
Timelines are like the cliff notes of history. They give us a succinct look into the events that shaped the lives of the people around us. Now they’re coming to Bing. Bing announced today that its adding timelines for famous…
HBO Asks Google To Remove VLC Player Link In DMCA Filing
In what appears to be a case of either mistaken identity or guilt by association, in one of their recent DMCA filings, HBO included a takedown request link pointing to the VLC media player. For those who are not aware,…
Kim Kardashian And What Google Thinks About Her
Week after week, Kim Kardashian, love or hate her fame, dominates popular culture and interest from web searchers. She regularly appears as a trending topic on various sites across the web, and many people just can’t seem to get enough…
Cutts: Last Time I Checked, Bing Was Still Using Google As A Signal
Microsoft unveiled its big “Bing It On” campaign this week. Part of that is a site, which allows users to perform a search query, and choose which results they prefer. After five rounds, the tool reveals whether your picked Bing…
Google Wants To Know How Satisfied You Are With Its Results
Google is testing a new way for users to give feedback on the quality of search results. In light of algorithm updates like Panda and Penguin (along with their subsequent data refreshes), people have plenty of feedback to offer (at…
Is Google About to Give Results While You Type Your Query?
Google is holding an even later today in which it is expected to unveil some new search-related product. Yesterday’s highly publicized Google doodle, which had the Google logo turning into a bunch of balls flying around as your mouse got closer to it, is presumed to be a clue to the new product launch.
Google Now Indexes SVG Files
Google is now indexing SVG files. SVG, which stands for scalable vector graphics, is a widely-deployed, royalty-free, XML-based format for vector graphics and support for interactivity. The format was developed and is maintained by the W3C SVG Working Group.
Google Officially Rolling Out the New SERPs
Update 5: Now Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience has officially announced the new design, and included the following video: