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Update: It turns out that Google launched a Panda refresh a few days ago, and Matt Cutts says this is more likely the culprit for Searchmetrics' lists....

Can Your Site Lose Its Rankings Because Of Competitors’ Negative SEO?

Rand Fishkin, the well known SEO expert and Founder/CEO of SEOmoz, has challenged the web to see if anyone can take down his sites’ ranking...

Google Analytics Gets New Site Speed Report, User Timings

Google announced today that it has added a new site speed report to Google Analytics, called User Timings. The report lets users track custom timings, and shows the execution speed...

Harvard to Offer Book Metadata for Search

Harvard University is set to release the metadata of over 12 million boo...

Will Google Add Google Drive Content To Search?

Google finally announced the official launch of Google Drive today, after years o...

Gideon Sundback Google Doodle Unzips Your Search Results

Hey Google, your fly's open! Today's Google Doodle is a fun interactive celebration of Swedish-American engineer Gideon Sundbäck, best known for his work in the development of t...

How Google Ranks Content, According To Matt Cutts

Google's Matt Cutts has put out a new Webmaster Help video. This one is particularly interesting and nearly 8 minutes long - much longer than the norm. It goes fairly in depth abou...

Google AdWords For Video: Will This Help Those CPC Numbers?

Video advertising just got a lot better for small business with Google'...

A Different Take On Google Social Search (Coming to Yahoo And Bing Too)

If you don't like Google's approach to social search with Search Plus Your World, you may or may not like...

Wajam Makes Personalized Results Less Obtrusive On Google

Some people like personalized search results based on their social connections. Some don't. Google thr...

Facebook Ads Reportedly Destroying Google Ads In CPCs

Facebook and Google are competitors. Make no mistake. It’s easy to view one as a social network and one as a search engine, but it is much, much more complicated than that. Both co...

Auxiliary Search? New Google Search Feature Spotted In The Wild

Is Google about to make it easier for users to find relevant information without ever leaving the search page? Reddit user philos...

New Google Near Match Types For AdWords To Be Available In May

Last week, following a report from GroupM Search CEO Chris Copeland, published by AdAg...

Major Google Update Suspected, Yet Again, By A Bunch Of Webmasters

Once again, webmasters are complaining about what may have been a major upd...

Google Rich Snippet Updates Announced, Author Stats Go Missing

Update: A Google spokesperson tells WebProNews, "We’ve currently disabled the experimental ‘Author stats’ feature in Webmaster Tools Labs as we work to fix a b...

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