Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
When you write a post at Google Plus, the social network allows you to link a web page and display an image from that page to the post, as well as defining who your post should be seen by. A patent filing published last week describes some of the processes behind adding those features, and … Read more
This past February, Google filed for distributed storage patents that describe aspects of how it might share information from one data center to another, and some of the challenges that entail. Google’s Yonatan Zunger, who revealed on his blog that over the past few months that he was the chief architect for Google’s social systems, … Read more
Can Document Category Keywords Boost Search Rankings? Imagine that Google assigns categories to every webpage or website that it visits. You can see categories like those for sites in Google’s local search. Now imagine that Google has looked through how frequently certain keywords appear on those websites’ pages, how often those pages rank for certain … Read more
Google’s not the only business that’s been driving around making videos of the streets of the United States. Facet Technology, which lists Bing as one of their technology partners, does something similar and offers navigation and location-based services data and software. Back in 2009, Facet Technology and TomTom struck up a deal allowing TomTom to … Read more
Will Facebook someday launch their own search engine that enables you to search the Web? That question surfaces every so often, without any real definitive answers. It’s possible that they might someday, especially since they’ve been hiring a number of people with job experience from some of the major search engines. The last few times … Read more