It has been a tumultuous month for Facebook and Google, as the world watched with interest while Australia threatened to make them pay for any local news content they displayed, Google threatened to pull out of Australia completely (to Microsoft’s delight, as Bing was touted as a replacement) and Facebook simply banned the posting of […]
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As pervasive as Google has become for almost everybody, there are still a few tricks you can use, to make sure that Google can give you the result you’re looking for. According to Daniel Russell, senior research scientist for search quality at Google, these are the best tips he can give for getting optimum search […]
In an announcement made earlier this month, Google reported that the latest update to its search engine algorithm is intended to increase the relevance of original reporting. Media outlets have frequently accused Google of costing them online traffic, and contributing toward a decline in their industry, with the search engine tending to show only the […]
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this month, Karan Bhatia, Google’s VP of Public Policy, admitted that the company’s controversial plan to re-launch its search engine in China while complying with the country’s restrictive internet censorship laws had been underway, but said that that it had been cancelled. The new Chinese version of Google […]
20 years ago this month, and two years after it was launched internally at Stanford University by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google was officially incorporated as a company. At first, they didn’t get much attention, being only one of a large number of competing search engines and “web portals,” but within a few months […]
Search engines, and especially Google, are always working to improve the user experience. In essence the whole point of search engine is to provide relevant and accurate information as quickly and as effectively as possible on request. Over time Google has developed advanced ways to deliver information to users almost instantly. One of the ways […]
For years now, (since 2008) Google has made it possible for website owners to use their powerful search functionality on their own websites. Now, according to a recent announcement, they will no longer be licensing this function as of the 1st of April this year. Existing customers can continue using the product until their license […]
When Google first broke onto the scene in 1998, one of the things that really set them apart was their clean, simple look. Compared to other search engines of the day, cluttered by ads and options, the plain white page with a straightforward list of potential results was a metaphorical breath of fresh air. In […]
In a surprising change, Google has rolled out a new ad display layout, that has significantly changed the ad real-estate landscape on search engine results pages. According to their spokesman, these are supposed to be for commercial and high value queries, but so far I’ve been seeing them for a quite a few queries that […]
Using the internet as a tool for finding out what’s ailing you is a tried, but not-very-well-tested, online tradition. We’ve all heard those jokes. Maybe we’ve even gone onto WebMD ourselves, typed in our symptoms and then poured through the results in horror, convinced we have Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, or Ebola. Then you come across […]
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