The official Google Maps Blog published news yesterday of a significant upgrade to – what else? – the Google Maps application. The new version of the Google Maps application is being released now through Google Play for smartphone and tablet devices that utilize the Android platform.
If you’re an English-language Facebook user in the United States, you should see a new feature appear the next time you log in, if you haven’t already. According to the Facebook Newsroom, Graph Search – which has been in beta status for the past six months or so – is now being rolled out to all U.S. users.
How did the Bing search trends and activity change during the week leading up to the 4th of July holiday celebration? Not much at all, according to a recent post published on the Bing Search Blog that you will either find highly surprising or incredibly predictable, depending on your frame of mind.
If you’re populating your website or blog with images, it’s a good idea to first make sure you’re doing so legally. Just because you find an image on the web through a Google, Bing or Yahoo image search doesn’t mean that that image is free for you to use.
How, exactly, does Google decide the search results rank of a given web page? The simple answer is that nobody knows with 100% certainty except for people like Matt Cutts and other members of Google’s Search Quality Team, but their lips are sealed.
Google’s Search Quality Team posted an informative FAQ on the Google Webmaster Central Blog about filing a reconsideration request to Google for backlinks – something you may need if your site suffers from inbound links from spammers and black hat sites.
