Archive of the Category 'Search Engines'

Google Instant

Thursday, den 9. September 2010

A couple of weeks ago we published an article on how Google was testing search results in real time through a video of a user who was able to record and upload it to the internet before Google could make it official. Google revealed Google Instant, this could change everything we know about search engines [...]

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Another new Google Doodle ahead of today’s press conference

Wednesday, den 8. September 2010

Google is well known for it’s Google Doodle’s, different logos that mark an anniversary or certain event, however this week Google have launched two different doodle’s with no apparent explanation, fueling rumours and clues ahead of their press conference later today (9.30am pacific time, 5.30 BST). Google’s first doodle of the week saw the logo [...]

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Google Now Allows One Domain to Dominate Search Results

Wednesday, den 25. August 2010

When a website shows very relevant content for a search query and Google deemed it appropriate for the user, it usually shows what is known as “site links”, allowing users to quickly find the information they seek within the same web site as shown in the image: Now this might change or be extended because [...]

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Yahoo has announced the transition to Bing

Tuesday, den 24. August 2010

Yes, it’s finally done. Yahoo organic searches are been powered by Bing (US & Canada) Try it for yourself… search for any term on Yahoo.com and at the bottom you would see “Powered By Bing”. They are looking at the migration of Adcenter end of this fall.

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Changes at Yahoo – Search Monkey is no more, Site Explorer is staying

Wednesday, den 18. August 2010

Last night Yahoo announced that they will be making changes to it’s Search back-end infrastructure. Unfortunately Yahoo Search Monkey will no longer be supported (although they will continue to index current Search Monkey apps) and as of October 1st 2010 it will be no more. MyBlogLog will also be shutdown. Developers will now also be charged to [...]

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Local SEO: finding regional directories

Tuesday, den 10. August 2010

When searching for regional/local directories in different countries, one of the best ways to proceed is using the Google Maps results and then follow the below steps: Open Google in the specific language (i.e google.es) Type the keyword (i.e Museos en Madrid) Go to Google Maps results Go through the list of websites listed in [...]

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Yahoo and Bing working together

Tuesday, den 27. July 2010

Yahoo announced that they are already running tests on Yahoo’s search engine with Bing’s algorithm, for organic and paid results. They said that these tests will only be seen on a maximum of 25% of the U.S. searches. Yahoo and Microsoft’s mobile services are slowly integrating, same thing will happen with the search engines during [...]

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Google’s Broad Match Modifiers

Wednesday, den 21. July 2010

In the US last week, Google launched  their new match-type the Broad Match Modifier (BMM). This is illustrated in the graphic below: Essentially this means that by adding a “+” in front of any of the words in your search term, that word (or its extremely close alternatives) will become a required word of the [...]

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A few changes for Google Maps

Tuesday, den 13. July 2010

It seems that some users have been experimenting with the appearance and “placement” of Google Maps, advertisements and results in the serps of Google Local. Perhaps they are just tests and that’s it, or maybe they will be implemented, these are some screenshots: We can see in the screenshots that the changes are quite significant: [...]

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AdWords Campaign Experiment – BETA

Thursday, den 24. June 2010

An important part of running a successful PPC campaign is the constant testing of bids, adcopy, keywords etc. However, it is sometimes  difficult to know 100% whether the changes in results that happened during your test were specifically down to the changes you made. For example, if you increased your bids by 10p and at [...]

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