Google revealed RankBrain to be its third most important ranking factor last year, but there appears to be a good deal of confusion within the company about just how it works....
Google made mobile-friendliness a ranking signal about a year ago, and the company just announced that it's about to have even more significance. Long story short, if you haven't g...
Google has been using one of its most important ranking signals for going on a year, and apparently it has so far helped improve search results on over half of queries....
Google is trying out a new social media-like experiment in its search results. We all know how the whole Google+ thing has gone, and now it looks as though the company is trying a...
Microsoft announced some new tracking parameters for URLs in Bing Ads. There are three new tags - {Campaign}, {AdGroup} and {Network}. Advertisers can add these to their landing p...
There's no telling when Google will finally launch the next, much-anticipated Penguin update. Now, Google's Gary Illyes, who has been hinting at dates over the past year (only to h...
We knew it was coming this week, but Google seems to be rolling it out a day earlier than expected.
We've known since early December that Google would start sending search traf...
Google announced that it has integrated the Places API with Google Maps search in an effort to offer more consistent search results across Google Maps and the API and provide bette...
Microsoft announced some updates to its Android and iPhone apps. While they company describes both updates as major, this is especially the case for Android.
There's a new mobi...
Well, the Yelp "extortion" (or lack thereof) narrative is back in the news. For years, the company has been accused by business owners of burying positive reviews when the owners d...
The much anticipated Google Penguin update has been expected this month, but from the sound of it, that's unlikely at this point. Google's Gary Illyes mentioned on Twitter (via...
Microsoft announced some enhancements to the Bing Ads Keyword Planner tool to give advertisers more insights into their campaigns. There are four new capabilities.
First is new...
Last summer, Instagram made some big changes to its search functionality including the addition of Places Search and some other new discovery avenues. It also expanded search from...