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.
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.





