May was a busy month for Google as they rolled out 39 changes to their Google search algorithm. Changes include the introduction of the Knowledge Graph, upgrades for Asian users, a retooled search app for the iPhone, and better hacked page detection
If you are trying to base your blog or website’s regularly-updated content around what is hot right at the moment on Twitter, you had better be quick about it. According to a new post published on the Twitter Engineering blog, a full 17% of the most popular Twitter searches change on an hourly basis.
According to a Sunday report from the Wall Street Journal, Google is developing a new suite of services and tools aimed squarely at small business marketers. The new service, which was once known as Business Builder, could be launched as soon as July, according to a “person familiar with the matter.”
Hot on the heels’ of Matt Cutts’ announcement of Penguin Update 1.1, a search algorithm refresh to a major Google update largely targeted at reducing webspam and the rankings of sites that trade in it, search marketing firm iAcquire has announced that it will stop purchasing links for its clients.
Ever since Google shook up the internet with its Penguin update over a month ago on April 24th, bloggers and site developers have been speculating about a “new Penguin update” every time they suspect even a mild alteration to Google’s search algorithms.
Today marks the third day of live trading for Facebook shares after the company’s historic IPO last Friday. The initial public offering itself was plagued with technical problems that prevented the actual shares from becoming available for purchase as scheduled.
It’s been approximately one month since the Google Penguin release shook up the internet with its controversial updates to several key ranking algorithms, which were intended to reduce the visibility of webspam but apparently dragged a lot of worthwhile websites and blogs down along with it.
Sources including AllThingsD and VentureBeat are reporting that Google could be on the cusp of purchasing Meebo, a popular social media platform, for the tidy sum of $100 million. Such a deal would represent the biggest acquisition in the tech world since Facebook purchased Instagram for $1 billion just over one month ago.
