Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
On July 17th, map API provider deCarta announced the release of their third generation Javascript-based Maps API. Around a week or so earlier, a Search Engine Land article noted that deCarta had been the recipient of a number of defections from the Google Maps API after Google had announced they would start charging for the … Read more
Google is experimenting with including emails in your search results. Of course, the emails you see will be personal to you, and won’t be shared with others. The emails will only be the ones that you received via Gmail, and the service is opt-in only. The announcement was made on August 8th, in the Google … Read more
Will Google Use Social Engineering to Fight Search Engine Spam? If you change your site using what Google may consider spam, Google may not change the rank of your page in response, according to a patent filed by the search engine. It may increase your rankings, decrease those rankings, or make no changes at all … Read more
For many search queries, very recent search results (such as from the last 6-12 hours) are preferred over older and more stale results that might rank well based upon popularity signals, including significant past user traffic that might cause them to have been assigned a high ranking. That may work fine if you think of … Read more
With Google Fiber, Android Operating Systems, and Motorola Phones, the business of Google is becoming as much about moving data across networks as it is in sending search data across networks. I noticed in Google’s patent assignments today a new entry which shows more movement in this direction. Google acquired 58 patents from Proxim Wireless … Read more