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Tracking User Interaction With Search Results
1st September 2010
Results of a recent eye-tracking study conducted at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona sheds light on interesting user behavior on a universal search results page. More »
Vatican Google Bombed
23rd July 2010
It has been reported that over the last weekend, the Vatican had been Google Bombed. More »
3-Word Queries Send Most Traffic
30th June 2010
Online ad network, Chitika, conducted a study to find out the ideal number of words in a search query to drive the most traffic. More »
Bing Socialises Shopping Search
10th May 2010
After having made it possible for users to share their opinions on search results relating to news and entertainment, Bing is now encouraging users to make the online shopping process more social. More »
Yahoo! Reports Changes In Search Behaviour
7th May 2010
A white paper released by scientists from Yahoo! Labs sheds light on the changes in search user behaviour. More »
Google Mobile Updates Search, Latitude
6th May 2010
Following the updates made to the Google Web search results interface, Google has also updated the mobile search results pages. More »
Google Local Business Center Becomes Google Places
21st April 2010
Last September, Google launched the Local Business Center to help business owners to reach out to a larger audience. They have now renamed the service ‘Google Places’ in an attempt to help users understand the connection between Google and the Local Business Center. More »
Twitter Claims More Searches Than Bing, Yahoo!
16th April 2010
Evan Williams, the co-founder of Twitter, said at the Chirp conference recently that Twitter users carry out about 600 million searches per day. Twitter’s director of search Doug Cook added that the number of queries reaches the 750 million mark on certain days and he expects it to cross 1 billion fairly soon. More »
Google Enables Twitter Archive Search
15th April 2010
Ever since the introduction of real-time search last December, Google has added content from sites like MySpace, Facebook and Buzz. The data is now available in 40 different languages. Google has also added a links feature to help people find the most relevant information with updates from Twitter. More »
Organic v Paid Search: Which Is More Likely To Convert?
13th April 2010
Recent research from sources such as comScore and Nielsen indicates, in a fairly decisive manner, that visits to a website that convert are more likely to come through a paid or sponsored link rather than from an organic or algorithmic link. More »
Going Back To Nofollow
1st April 2010
For the past few years, the Search Daily News has refrained from slapping the rel=”nofollow” attribute on to links associated with comments on the site. This is now changing. More »
How Social Is Google Social Search?
1st February 2010
Google has now released Social Search in beta for all users. While this could mark the start of an exciting new era in organic search engine optimisation, there is one severe limitation to this feature. More »
Google Caffeine Readying For Launch
4th January 2010
While everyone has been talking about how Google is integrating more and more real time search results with the help of sites like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, there is the less visible algorithm that powers search results, which Google has been working on making more real time. More »
Google Doesn’t Practice What They Preach For Open Source
24th December 2009
Just this week Google’s V.P. of Product Management Jonathan Rosenberg published a memo declaring that Google is an open source company. An insightful article on the Silicon Alley Insider points out how all Google’s talk about opennes is really just “empty posturing”. More »
Google Real Estate Search In U.K.
9th December 2009
According to reports from the Financial Times, Google is planning to start a property portal on their site by early 2010. More »
Google’s All For Making The Web Faster
8th December 2009
Google has just introduced 2 new services that will help make the web faster for their clients. One of them is a tool for webmasters to monitor their website’s speed and the other is a public DNS service. More »
View Pages As Googlebot Via Webmaster Tools
12th October 2009
Two new tools went live on Google Webmaster Tools today under a new section called ‘Labs’. The new tools are called Malware details and Fetch as Googlebot. More »
Google Trends In Google Search
1st October 2009
With millions of users all over the world using Google search everyday, certain topics are bound to be very popular or ‘Hot’ among searchers at any given point of time. Google will now inform users about the popularity of such topics when a user searches for them. More »
Digg Adds Nofollow To All Stories That Aren’t Popular
7th September 2009
Digg recently added the rel=”nofollow” attribute to some links on their site, whose quality and veracity they are not sure of. This move comes hot on the heels of Twitter, who did the same for all their links last week. More »
Yahoo! Tests New Search Interface
28th August 2009
Now that both the leading search engines Google and Microsoft have made innovations to the way their search results are presented, it was only a matter of time before Yahoo! did the same thing. More »
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