Amp-what: A Unicode & HTML Entity Search Engine
Who doesn’t love HTML Entities, unicode characters and the like…
DuckDuckGo Adds Carousel, Auto-Complete, Local Results & More
DuckDuckGo announced the next version of their privacy search engine at https://next.duckduckgo.com/.
Note, this is where users like us can play around with it and give them feedback. DuckDuckGo wants to switch over to the new version in about a mont…
Yandex Dropped Link Factors From Their Search Ranking Algorithm
Back in December, Yandex announced they will be dropping link factors from part of their search ranking algorithm. They made that decision because the links were being abused so much that it ruined the overall relevancy of the search results…
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Googlers Wonder Why It Can’t Convert Bitcoin Currency
I spotted a thread by a Google+ Community manager named Aygul Zagidullina on Google+ stating…
Link Spammers Beat Yandex, Forcing Yandex to Change Algorithm
Andy Atkins-Krüger posted an awesome news story at Search Engine Land covering how Yandex is changing their algorithm for some types of queries to no longer count links as a ranking factor.
Yandex is the leading Russian search engine…
Goodbye AltaVista
Late Friday, Yahoo announced they are shutting down AltaVista for good on July 8…
Yandex Islands: Interactive Snippets: A Webmasters Worst Nightmare?
Yandex, Russia’s most popular search engine, announced the launch of a beta of their Yandex “Islands” or as they describe it “interactive snippets,” yesterday in Turkey.
In short, interactive snippets lets searchers complete their goals directly in …
Blekko Dazzles Search Results Design But Does That Improve Relevancy?
Blekko announced a major redesign yesterday – from their logo color schemes (dark red to light blue) to pretty much everything you see…
Samuru: A Search Engine Designed By An SEO
Brandon Wirtz, an SEO who started his own search engine named Samuru…