Big changes came to Yahoo today, as the company has totally reinvented the appearance of their search engine results pages, also known as SERPs. At first glance, the new look is cleaner, easier to scan and more focused on the results themselves.
If you’re at all concerned with watching what you eat, a new feature being added now to Google search should make it easier. In short, Google will now allow you to see detailed nutrition information for a wide variety of foods, including whole foods like bananas and tomatoes as well as meals like burritos and macaroni and cheese.
According to Search Engine Land, the latest instrument of destruction in Google’s battle against web spam – Penguin 2.0 – is now live. There may be confusion among the SEO media about what exactly to call the update; Google is going with Penguin 2.0, as we will as well, while Search Engine Land is calling it Penguin 4.
While a recent comScore report indicates that Bing and Yahoo are slowly chipping away at Google’s dominance of the search industry, a new study by WebpageFX tells a slightly different story.
Bing’s piece of the United States search market share pie grew bigger than ever before in April, all at the expense of Google, according to a new report from comScore. The company already set a personal record for search market share in March, when it climbed to 16.9%.
Matt Cutts, Google’s chief of web spam, is back with a new video, this time answering the question of what types of SEO changes to expect from Google over the summer.
Just barely over one year ago, we discussed how a string of layoffs could mean the end of Yahoo search. However, it now appears that Marissa Mayer’s leadership has changed all that, as Yahoo is redoubling its efforts by adding new upgrades, tools, and features to its search engine.
According to Microsoft, Google isn’t the only search engine in town. That being said, Microsoft is designing another advertising plan in an effort to gain market share in the competitive world of search engines by relaunching their Bing It On Challenge.
The local business online review industry is absolutely booming, if the most recent earnings report from Yelp is any indication. An online urban guide and business review site founded in October of 2004, Yelp brought in an astounding $46 million in the first quarter of 2013, up almost 70% from the same quarter in 2012.