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Google Brings Back Zagat App for Nightlife and Restaurants

July 30, 2013

A post published yesterday on the Google Official Blog reveals that Google is bringing back the Zagat mobile application for both iOS and Android mobile devices.

Is Expandable Text OK With Google?

July 25, 2013

Matt Cutts, head of web spam at Google, is back with another video Q&A session, this time focusing on and tackling the topic of whether expandable text sections will negatively impact your search engine optimization efforts.

Customer Satisfaction Down for Search Engines and Social Networks

July 23, 2013

A new customer satisfaction survey published by ForeSee Results does not bode well for most of our beloved search engines and the most popular social network sites, according to a new report by Search Engine Land.

7+ New Categories Come to Bing Autosuggest

July 18, 2013

A new post published yesterday on the Bing Search Blog indicated that seven new categories are going to be released on the Bing Autosuggest application – a functionality in which Bing provides you with a list of predictions as to what you might be searching for based on the text you have entered so far.

Search Market Share Remains Stagnant from May to June

July 16, 2013

Most months, all the major search engines trade at least a few percentage points of market share, but from May to June of this year, all of the Big 3 (Google, Yahoo and Bing) and even the lesser-remembered two (AOL and Ask.com) remained essentially stagnant.

New Google Maps is First Dedicated for Tablets

July 11, 2013

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.

Facebook Graph Search is Now Live

July 9, 2013

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.

4th of July has Little Impact on Bing Search Trends

July 5, 2013

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.

Bing Adds Image Search Filter for Usage Rights

July 2, 2013

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.