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.
Just over a week ago, we reported that indie search engine DuckDuckGo had passed 2 million searches in a single day. Impressive, given that they finally passed 1 million daily searches in February 2012 after struggling far on the margins of the search engine competition for several years.
When you’re choosing images to put up on your site, who are you mostly concerned with – search engines, or the people actually visiting and looking at your site? Although you might be inclined to place a lot of importance on the former, a new video from Google web spam head Matt Cutts may have you rethinking your strategy.
Apple made their highly anticipated appearance at the Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, and while they introduced
If you’re among the many who feel that Google digs a little too far into your personal life and violates your privacy, you’ve probably heard of DuckDuckGo, the search engine whose most-touted feature is the fact that they fully respect user privacy.
If you have ever struggled to find the old photographs that you had previously pinned to Pinterest yourself, the photo sharing website has a new feature that it has added that is designed to make your life a little bit easier from this point forward.
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.