Apple Maps Showing Restaurant Menus From Yelp
Apple Maps both on iOS devices and desktop seem to now be showing menus from some restaurants. The menus seem to mostly come from Yelp, a partner of Apple.
Apple Lists Its Search Ranking Factors
Apple has updated the “about Applebot” help documentation page the other day and in that document it lists information about how Apple ranks web results. It also updated information around Applebot.
Google Reacts To DuckDuckGo On Why Not To Use Google Search
Danny Sullivan of Google responded to the claims and allegations from DuckDuckGo around Google’s biased search results.
Yandex Webmaster Tools: SEOs Should Check It Out
Have you ever checked out the Yandex webmaster tools? Yandex is a huge Russian search engine but you don’t need to care so much about your rankings in Yandex to use the tools. It also has link reports and other nice chunks of data that may be useful to…
Ahrefs To Compete With Google Search & Share The Wealth With Publishers
Yesterday, Dmitry Gerasimenko the CEO of Ahrefs – a beloved SEO toolset provider, announced on Twitter his company will be building a search engine to compete with Google. He knows it sounds crazy, he said that, but he said he wants to do it for two r…
DuckDuckGo & Other Search Providers Respond To Google Site Search Closure
Google announced the other day they are closing their Site Search product, which is a paid internal search service. Keep in mind, the free version is still available and is not closing.
But DuckDuckGo and Cludo jumped on the news to promote their sit…
Yandex Palekh Algorithm Catches The Long Tail With Machine Learning
Yesterday, Yandex announced that they launched something similar to the Google RankBrain – well, they didn’t say that, I am.
They launched what they call Palekh which is name of a Russian city, the flag of that city is of a firebird, which you can see…
DuckDuckGo Adds New Jersey Transit Searches
DuckDuckGo announced on Twitter that they have added some New Jersey Transit schedule data to their search results.
So if you search for various routes in DuckDuckGo, the schedules may be returned…
Apple Search? Apple Starts Crawling The Web?
Moesen noticed a new spider crawling through his HTML files on his web site and checked to see who this new spider was. The IP range seems to resolve to Apple’s servers, named APPLE-WWNET…
DuckDuckGo Blocked In China
DuckDuckGo, the privacy search engine, that was also recently added as a search option on iOS 8, has been blocked by China.
Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of DuckDuckGo, confirmed it on Twitter yesterday when Steven Millward asked him.
Using the block…
DuckDuckGo Coming To A Safari Browser Near You
Yesterday at the Apple WWDC, Apple announced quietly (actually, I don’t even think they said it…
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…
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…