Right To Be Forgotten Requests Keep Coming, Now 41,000
As of the end of last week there were roughly 12,000 requests that had been officially submitted to Google under Europe’s judicially created “right to be forgotten” (RTBF) rule. Google launched an online form last week to field the requests. According to the Wall Street Journal…
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Bing Celebrates Its 5th Birthday With A Walk Down Memory Lane & Extra Search Reward Credits
To celebrate its 5th birthday today, Bing has posted a retrospective of the last five years and is offering Bing Reward credit perks for any users who search on the site between now and June 9. Going all the way back to 2009, Microsoft’s search engine outlined its initial goals of leveraging…
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At Five Years Old, Bing Has Come Far Yet Has More To Grow
Microsoft’s Bing search engine has turned five this week. There are good reasons for some birthday celebrations at Microsoft. The company has created a solid competitor to Google, grown its market share and created a search platform for other Microsoft products. But when it comes to…
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Google’s Matt Cutts On Assessing Quality Of A Page Without Links
In the latest video by Google’s Matt Cutts, he talks about how Google may determine the quality of a page of content without there being many links. By Matt’s expression, he seemed to give off the feeling that without links, it is really hard for Google to determine the quality of the…
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Mac “Spotlight” Search Drops Google For Bing; Becomes More Siri-Like In OS X “Yosemite”
It looks like Bing has gained another win with Apple, becoming integrated into a new version of Spotlight in Apple’s forthcoming Mac OS X “Yosemite” operating system. Spotlight will also tap into a wide-range of search resources similar to how Siri works on iOS. During…
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Google Comparison Ads Under Fire In UK
The UK financial services industry regulator Financial Conduct Authority is taking a closer look at Google Comparison Ads. UK price comparison sites have complained that Google is unfairly competing with them by placing its own “product” at the top of search results. Comparison Ads,…
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Google To Bring Always-On, “Eyes Free” Search To App
One of the most interesting and talked about features in the Motorola-made Moto X is always-on voice search. Activated by saying “OK, Google,” it permits totally hands-free search. Unfortunately this standout feature didn’t sell enough handsets to keep open Moto’s…
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Google Opens “Right To Be Forgotten” Form For EU Citizens
Google has taken a big step forward with complying with the European Union’s new “Right To Be Forgotten” that was established after a court ruling earlier this month. The company has established a new form allowing those in the EU to request takedown of URLs they dislike. How The…
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Did Google Panda 4.0 Go After Press Release Sites?
Nine days ago when Google released Panda 4.0 – which aims to filter out “thin” content from top rankings – we focused our attention on the big Winners & Losers charts, Since then, some have noted that press releases may have also been hit big time. Using SearchMetrics, I…
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Google Maps Now Has Driving Directions In North Korea
North Korea Tech reports that Google Maps now has driving directions in North Korea. As the site reports, “North Korea has strict controls on internal movement, a scarcity of private car ownership and almost no Internet users.” Despite all of that, Google Maps can give those who do have…
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No, Google Says There’s Been No Penguin Update
This morning, I noticed a lot of buzz around a possible Google Penguin update. The SEO space was noticing huge changes in the search results from perviously penalized sites, many that were impacted by the Google Penguin update. The Google Penguin algor…
Google’s Matt Cutts: One Page With Two Links To Same Page; We Counted The First Link
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted video today answering how does Google handle one page that has two links pointing to the same page. Does it pass PageRank the same way? How does google handle the anchor text, if the anchor text differs. In short, Mat Cutts said: (1) PageRank…
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The Recirculation Gap: Why Google Sends More Traffic Than Its Search Market Share Suggests
How can publishers receive a greater percentage of search traffic from Google than the market share Google has in the US? It’s likely due to what I call “The Recirculation Gap” and how Google probably “recirculates” searches back into itself less than Yahoo and Bing….
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Google Now Testing Knowledge Graph Popups In AdWords Ads
Back in January, Google formally rolled out popups with Knowledge Graph information about certain sites in the organic search results. Now it appears these popups are being tested in ads. Arianna Wolf, a search strategist at 90 Octane, provided screens…
Actress Sues Google For Indexing Porn Search Results Tied To Her Name
Maria Belen Rodriguez is an Argentina-born model, actress and TV personality who now lives and works in Italy. She successfully sued Google and Yahoo in 2006 in her native country, alleging that her likeness was wrongfully appropriated by porn sites and then indexed/republished or disseminated by…
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Google Webmaster Tools Adds Fetch & Render By Device Type
Google has announced they have added a new feature to the Fetch as Googlebot tool in Google Webmaster Tools. Now, you can see how Googlebot renders the page. Instead of using the Fetch as Googlebot to just see an output of code and HTML, Google will sh…
Is Google’s European Antitrust Settlement In Jeopardy?
Widespread dissatisfaction among public and political figures with the existing antitrust settlement between Google and the European Commission appears to be putting the existing settlement in danger. According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the run up to this week’s European Parliament…
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Lawyers Sue SEO firm For Violating Google Guidelines
A law firm in Michigan, Seikaly & Stewart, is suing its former SEO provider — but not for a lack of ranking success. Rather the firm is getting sued for allegedly using “spammy” techniques violating Google’s guidelines. That comes via Eric Goldman. The…
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Bing Maps Makes It Easier To See Map Features & Distinguish Park Trails From Streets
Last Friday, Bing Maps announced new stylistic updates, designed to make its maps easier to read. Among the new style features, Bing has added more color gradient, adjusting the brightness of a land area depending on the zoom level. From the announceme…
Microsoft Offers Skype Promotion For Making Bing Your Default Search Engine
WinBeta reports that Microsoft is offering a promotion to Brazilian searchers to make Bing their default search engine and in exchange, they will get $2 of Skype credit to be applied to your Skype account. When you go to Bing Brazil (clicking this will…