According to Search Engine Land, Google is working on a new algorithm that will penalize sites that attempt to “over-optimize” or “over-SEO” their on-site content.
The announcement was delivered by Matt Cutts, the head of the webspam team at Google, at a South by Southwest panel named “Dear Google and Bing: Help Me Rank Better.”
If you are a company that recently filed for a $100 billion IPO, the last thing you want on your hands is a lawsuit. Unfortunately, that is exactly what Facebook is now faced with, and the plaintiff in this case is not some small internet start-up company looking to cash in on the success of Facebook, but rather Yahoo, one of the world’s largest and most popular search engines.
The recently published comScore data regarding search market share for February of 2012 has now been made available to the public, and the big news is exactly what you’d expect.
Whenever a new website happens to attract the attention of the general population, it has a way of attracting a few seedy characters as well. I’m talking, of course, about internet con artists, and their tendency to latch onto whatever happens to be popular in order to launch an attack and make a quick buck. In this case, the site-of-the-moment is Pinterest, the popular social media site that has amassed a user base exceeding 13 million individuals despite legality concerns and reports that the site was covertly adding affiliate links to user submissions.
As reported by the International Business Times and other sources, Google is looking to release its own version of Apple’s Siri by the fourth quarter of 2012, giving Android users access to a virtual assistant that will answer questions and keep digital assets organized using intuitive voice commands. Siri was the “killer app” packaged with the iPhone 4S, an app that helped Apple move over 4 million units just a few days after that phone was released in October of 2011. Google’s Siri alternative will likely mimic Apple’s current app with the usual Android touches.
Yes, I said “MySpace,” not Twitter, not Facebook, or some other social networking website that’s actually relevant in 2012. Things were looking up for Google+ in January when Larry Page (Google’s CEO) said that over 90 million users were now registered on the search engine giant’s social network.
SEO headlines have been ablaze with news and controversy regarding Pinterest, the hot new image-based social media site that has been growing very quickly and is now competing with Google and Twitter in terms of referral traffic despite its beta status.
As reported by BetaBeat and other sources, the public’s desire for greater privacy when performing search engine queries took another blow yesterday when Daniel Brandt, owner of the non-profit search engine Scroogle, announced that his website would be taken down and “gone forever” due to a number of crippling DDOS attacks and relentless pressure from Google.
Thanks to upcoming changes to Google’s privacy policies, everyone from consumer advocates and government