Yesterday marked the inauguration of Microsoft’s new “Bing For Schools” program, intended to support digital literacy (or at least how to use a search engine, a crucial skill for any student) among kids in elementary, middle and high schools across the country.
The lines between desktop and mobile devices continue to blur with a new post published on the Google Official Blog announcing the arrival of Google Now-like quick answers in Google Search, not just on smartphones, tablets, and mobile devices but on desktop PCs and laptops as well.
New comScore data is now available with insights on search engine market share data in the United States for July of 2013. Google was the month’s big winner at the expense of Yahoo, Ask and AOL. Bing was immune to Google’s gains, however, were flat.
Google’s new quality guidelines may have you feeling a little frustrated, especially if you trade in rich content that can take a few moments for users to load, even on a 4G connection.
Old-school SEOers will still tell you that a blog post, or any page of content on the internet, should be comprised of no more than 300 to 400 total words – maybe 500 words at a maximum and only 500 words if the subject matter that is being discussed really calls for it.





