Category: Search engine optimization

Targeted towards content farms (a name used to describe websites that created low quality content in higher quantities that ranked high in Google’s search results), Google had originally planned to launch updates under the name ‘farmer update’ in 2011. But two years ago on February 24, 2011 Google brought forward these updates by the name…

In a recent interview, Google’s John Mueller was asked a question regarding penguin updates. Answering to that, John replied,” Penguin is updated on a more regular cycle but not always announced.” So, does that mean Google is updating the penguin database without announcing? No, Google has nullified the possibilities of any such confusion. One of…

‘Aliyun’ the brainchild of experts working at Alibaba (a renowned internet company in China) is the newest addition to the list of search engines existing in China. The launch comes as a part of the Alibaba Group’s subsidiary ‘AliCloud’. The search engine offers standard features such as Internet, Images, News, as well as Maps (courtesy…

Following what music, film, television and book publishing industries have been using, to control piracy; Google has also come up with a trick up its sleeve to stop those illegal download sites from having a source of credit with which they can buy advertisements on the internet. As per the story reported by The Telegraph,…

Memorialising near miss of Asteroid 2012 DA14 from hitting the earth, Google had planned to bring a special logo for the same for today. However, respecting the sentiments of Russians (because of the devastation caused due to meteor explosion in the country), the company decided not to go ahead with the logo (so called Google…

Google has come up with a new rich snippet tool for snow conditions searches. Peter Altloft the co-owner of ‘Branded3’ recently made a tweet regarding the same. Mentioning further about his experience while searching for ‘geilo snow report’ on Google, Peter tweeted that the search engine came with a rich snippet that gave detailed information…

Google has once again risen as per the expectations and bagged top spot amongst the list of search engines in the United States (as per the latest survey conducted by comScore). The market share that was reduced to 66.7% in December has again reached to 67% in the month of January. No other search engine…

The recent comments from Bill Gates have heated up the debate as to which is the best search engine of present times, Google or Bing (Microsoft’s own product). Mr. Gates, the non-executive Chairman of Microsoft currently, although has been not working full-time with Microsoft, but is still indorsing the search engine of the company. In…

No one can beat Google search engine when it comes to searching something on the internet. Figures reflect it! If we have a look at the past figures, Google has always been the leader and it’s not different this time as well. Figures from comScore show that Google is by far and large the most…

Until now various software companies like AVG and media company IAC, were having big business from the search toolbars. They were able to make more than $40 million; approximately, in the year of 2011. However, now this money making seems to be in danger as Google is stepping up enforcement of its policies against these…