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Google+ Business Pages – Should You Care?
9th November 2011
Google Plus, the social side of Google has recently opened up for business accounts. The new feature, known (unsurprisingly) as Google+ Pages, went live on Monday and the verdict on them is not very encouraging so far. More »
Google Flight Search Takes Off
14th September 2011
Google has just launched a flight search facility, which as the name suggests, helps users to find out more about flight times and availability and to book them. More »
Movie Searches Nearly Double
5th September 2011
For some time now, Google has been studying the way users conduct searches for movies online. A whitepaper detailing the results of this study shows that movie search patterns have changed considerably in the past 3 years. More »
Google +1 Button Turns Social
30th August 2011
Users of Google Search and Google Profiles have been using the +1 Button for some time now, to help recommend content to others. Google has now announced some improvements to this button, to make this process of content recommendation more social. More »
Google Launches Hotel Finder
1st August 2011
Google has just launched a new service called Hotel Finder, which should be of great use to travelers. The site is easy to use, simple and could definitely compete with the current top hotel booking sites, which it currently relies on. More »
Bing Testing Ads Within Organic Search Results
25th July 2011
Bing is testing a new format of advertising inter-mingled with their organic search results. This could have serious implications in the search market across the board. More »
Spelling Mistakes Affect Online Sales
20th July 2011
Spelling mistakes in shopping websites are proving to be very costly for the marketers, according to an article recently published on the BBC. More »
Google Peaks UK Market Share
18th July 2011
The latest report released by Hitwise reveals that Google Search has crossed all its previous records as far as market share in the U.K. is concerned. More »
Yahoo! Site Explorer To Shut Down Soon
13th July 2011
Yahoo! has recently announced that they have decided to shut down one of their popular SEO tools Yahoo! Site Explorer. More »
Schema.org Unites Three Search Giants
6th June 2011
The three major search engines, Google, Bing and Yahoo! have decided to come together for a common purpose. They have jointly introduced a collection of HTML tags called schemas, which will help webmasters to markup HTML pages in order to improve their website optimisation. More »
Google Launches +1 Button. Webmasters React: “Meh!”
3rd June 2011
Google has once again tried to break into the social market, this time by launching the much talked-about +1 button. Not quite surprisingly, the launch was devoid of the usual fanfare accompanying a Google product launch and the results so far might give a clue why. More »
Google Panda Update Seriously Affects Popular U.K. Sites
19th April 2011
Google launched the Panda update recently in the U.S. in order to improve search result quality. Now they have rolled it out for all English searches Worldwide. This has had serious ramifications in the U.K. More »
Common Search Query Modifiers
21st March 2011
While people can search for almost everything through the search engines, a recently conducted study has found that certain terms are used very commonly with each query. More »
Google Launches Chrome Extension To Block Sites On SERPs
15th February 2011
Google announced the availability a new tool on the Chrome browser that lets users block low-quality websites from their search results pages. More »
Google Accuses Microsoft Of Search Results Plagiarism
2nd February 2011
Google has publicly claimed that the Microsoft search engine, Bing, is copying Google’s search results. More »
Google Fights Self-Promo Claims By Harvard Professor
24th January 2011
2011 has started with Google having to face multiple attacks of self promotion and invasion of privacy from a number of fronts. Claims of bias in Google’s organic search results have risen time and again. The latest one comes from Harvard University. More »
Advancing Google Place Search
2nd November 2010
A new search feature called Place Search was introduced by Google last week. After a rather unobtrusive start, local search is now looking like it might drastically change the presentation of results for organic search. Is this being done at the expense of other search services? More »
Google’s New Image Format – WebP
8th October 2010
Over the last few months and indeed over the last few years, Google has been introducing new features and tools to help speed up and improve a website. However, the one area in which progress seems to have been deficient, is images. More »
Popularity Of Navigational Searches
4th October 2010
A recent post on the comScore blog indicates that when people wish to visit a particular brand’s website, they are likely to search using the site address rather than typing the URL in the browser’s address bar. More »
Google Provides Instant Search Results
9th September 2010
A super-fast new search interface on Google.com, known as Google Instant, has set the Internet abuzz. While the idea seems cool, many are worried about the ramifications of throwing so much information at users. More »
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