Google Autocomplete Under Fire in Defamation Suit
Most individuals would probably agree that the Google autocomplete feature, which automatically guesses the next
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Wikipedia Appears on First Page of Google Less than Half the Time
Most site owners and bloggers are eternally envious of Wikipedia, if for no other reason than the online encyclopedia’s apparent knack for showing up at or near the top of search results so frequently.
Google Developing Over-Optimization Penalty
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.”
Yahoo Suing Facebook Over 10 Patents
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.
February Search Market Share: Google/Bing Up, Yahoo Down
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.
Beware of Pinterest Phishing Scam
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.
Google to Launch Siri Competitor This Year
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.
Google+ Users are Less Active than MySpace Users
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.