Archive of April, 2017

April, 28 2017

Google launched more than 1,600 new changes in search last year Google has been busy with 1,653 launches, 9,800 live traffic experiments, 18,015 side-by-side [...] - Search Engine Land
6 key paid search trends from Merkle’s Q1 2017 report Here's a look at what's happening with Shopping ads, expanded text ads, device bidding and more. - Search Engine Land
Is Google testing its own jobs search engine? In the market for a new job? Google appears to be testing a new search feature just for you. - Search Engine Land
Google doodle celebrates Marie Harel, the inventor of Camembert cheese Check out the cheesy Google logo on their home page today. - Search Engine Land
Search Ad Revenue Up 19%, Now 48% of All Digital Ad Revenue [REPORT] According to a report from iab, total revenue from search ads has hit a new high. - Search Engine Journal
Google Mobile Results Tests Dropping AMP Results Completely? Earlier this week, we reported that Google was potentially testing dropping the AMP logo from AMP [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: 1,653 Search Launches With 9,800 Live Experiments & 130,336 Search Quality Tests We all know Google does a lot of testing, in fact, I probably only cover less than 5% of the tests [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Quickly Fixed The AMP Analytics Bug Yesterday... - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 27 2017

IAB: Paid search was 48 percent of total digital spend in 2016 Spending declined on the desktop but grew by nearly $6 billion overall because of mobile. - Search Engine Land
Report: Google Assistant bests rivals for questions answered and overall accuracy Cortana was second for questions answered, Alexa second-best for accuracy. - Search Engine Land
Keyword tiering: A systematic way to juggle your AdWords priorities Columnist Jacob Baadsgaard explains how assigning paid search keywords into different tiers based [...] - Search Engine Land
Facebook Tests Showing More Related Articles Facebook is running a test that shows you related stories before you click on an article in your [...] - Search Engine Journal
Advertisers get claim notices for Google’s $22.5M settlement over ads on parked domains The settlement stems from a case that dates back to 2008 about Google ads showing on error pages [...] - Search Engine Land
What will the future of Google search results pages look like? Recently, we took a nostalgic, infographic-based look back at the history of Google search results [...] - Search Engine Watch
SEO Agencies Spamming Google? Google Would Take A "Fair Look" Did you know that Google is willing to review random SEO agencies to see if their SEO practices are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Building A Better Website Indirectly Helps Google Rankings Google has said time and time again, they want to rank the best and most relevant content and web [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Will Google Start Giving People Social Media Influencer Scores? A patent granted to Google this week tells us about social media influencer scores developed at [...] - SEO by the Sea

April, 26 2017

Google Home now helps you cook over 5 million recipes Google partners with Bon Appetit, The New York Times, Food Network and others to bring millions of [...] - Search Engine Land
Simple tips to get your app indexed, ranked & installed Got an app you'd like to promote? Columnist John Lincoln provides some basic tips for helping your [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Adjusts Ranking Signals to Demote Fake News Google is making serious efforts to filter fake news, which the company says is its “most [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Owl Update Promotes Authoritative Content For Fake News Queries Yesterday, Google officially announced both an algorithm update and procedure changes for managing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Cassini spacecraft’s grand finale at Saturn depicted in Google doodle Google's out-of-this-world doodle depicts the Cassini Spacecraft taking a photo shoot of Saturn and [...] - Search Engine Land

April, 25 2017

Experimental Nighttime Photography with Nexus and Pixel Posted by Florian Kainz, Software Engineer, Google Daydream On a full moon night last year I [...] - Google Research
Google’s ‘Project Owl’ — a three-pronged attack on fake news & problematic content Google hopes to improve by better surfacing authoritative content and enlisting feedback about [...] - Search Engine Land
Google reaffirms 15% of searches are new, never been searched before Google processes trillions of searches every year, and still, 15% of those queries have never been [...] - Search Engine Land
Local search update: ‘Best’ filter invading the local pack We all know good ratings and reviews are important for local businesses, and it seems they're [...] - Search Engine Land
Content and links: It really does take a village Columnist Julie Joyce explains how clients' and other stakeholders' involvement can greatly improve [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Links From High Search Traffic Pages Aren't More Valuable Google's John Mueller responded on Twitter that links from a page that gets a lot of traffic via [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tells Newspapers, Like NY Times, WSJ & Others, To Noindex News Feeds Google's John Mueller said on Twitter this morning that those sites republishing news feeds should [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 24 2017

Half of Google’s First Page Results are HTTPS, According to Moz Moz reports the number of HTTPS results on Google’s first page has risen from 30% to 50% over [...] - Search Engine Journal
Moz report: 50% of page one search results are HTTPS Based on the trend of sites switching to HTTPS and what is ranking in Google, we may see 70% of the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google to Automatically Display Local Reviews in Your Native Language Going forward, Google will automatically translate local reviews into your native language. - Search Engine Journal
4 ways brands are losing store traffic — and how to use location marketing strategies to reverse course Many national franchise stores are failing to appear in Google Maps search results. Columnist [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: No Plans To Boost HTTPS Ranking Factor As you know, back in 2014, Google released the HTTPS ranking boost to give a little ranking boost [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New: LinkedIn Launches Matched Audiences LinkedIn Matched Audiences gives advertisers three new targeting tools: website retargeting, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Shopping Campaigns Adds Search Term Reports at Product Level Bing Ads is rolling out new features to Bing Shopping Campaigns designed to enhance feed management [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Tests Dropping AMP Logo From Search Results When Google took AMP live in their search results, they were accompanied by the AMP logo in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing: Changes to Copyright Removal Process Bing announced it has streamlined its copyright removal process. - Search Engine Journal

April, 21 2017

5 must-dos for SEO beginners If you're new to SEO, or if it isn't your primary focus, you might be neglecting tactics that will [...] - Search Engine Land
How to add schema markup to your site using Google Tag Manager Want to add strucured data markup to your site, but don't have the access or the coding skills? No [...] - Search Engine Land
Images: Your easiest page speed win Page speed is important for both rankings and user experience, yet columnist Kristine Schachinger [...] - Search Engine Land
Earth Day Google doodle offers up conservation tips to help save the planet Google is using today's doodle to promote conservation efforts and support the World Wildlife Fund, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google sets machine learning loose on new ‘Smart’ display campaigns Automation take over essentially every aspect of this new campaign format. - Search Engine Land
Bing updates its DMCA take-downs and copyright removal process Bing Webmaster Tools gains a content removal section for viewing and appealing DMCA take-downs. - Search Engine Land
Google: Why Do You Want To Rank For Competitors Keywords An SEO asked Google if they can rank in Google for a competitor's keyword. John Mueller responded [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Earth Day Logo - A Day Early Tomorrow is Earth Day and Google has already started to push out their special Google Doodle, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 20 2017

PhotoScan: Taking Glare-Free Pictures of Pictures Posted by Ce Liu, Michael Rubinstein, Mike Krainin and Bill Freeman, Research Scientists [...] - Google Research
Google to Include Built-in Ad Blocker in Chrome Browser Google, a company which sells digital ads, is working on a feature for Chrome which would block ads [...] - Search Engine Journal
SEO & intelligent content: Discovery, connection and improved performance Jim Yu explains how search data can be used to better understand your customers, allowing you to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google tests ‘suggested clip’ in search results where video jumps directly to the answer Google wants to help you skip video introductions when searching for "how to" queries and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google My Business Now Reports on Returning Customers Two new reporting insights have been spotted in some users’ Google My Business dashboards. - Search Engine Journal
Google Home can now support and distinguish up to six separate users The new feature, which rolls out today, enables multiple users to receive personalized results. - Search Engine Land
What’s new with Earth? First impressions of the relaunched Google Earth Google has just re-designed, revamped and re-launched its Earth product. What's new, what's [...] - Search Engine Watch
Bing Ads Editor Now Supports Review Extensions Bing Ads Editor has been updated with support for Review Extensions, and other new features. - Search Engine Journal

April, 19 2017

SEO & website design: Everything you need to know SEO is important to any business that operates online, but many don't realize that search engine [...] - Search Engine Land
4 tips to maximize content marketing performance Many SEOs are turning to content marketing to replace or supplement their link-building efforts, [...] - Search Engine Land
Was There A Google Algorithm Update On April 17th & 18th? So, while I was offline, there seems to been a Google algorithm update. Not at Fred, Penguin or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Ripoff Report is apparently subverting Google take-downs Previously de-indexed Ripoff Report pages are reappearing and ranking prominently again in Google. [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Brings ‘Your Timeline’ to iOS: A Searchable History of Your Life Google is bringing ‘Your Timeline’ to Google Maps on iOS for the first time, a feature [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: We sent 9M web spam messages in 2016, more than double 2015 total While more messages were sent, Google said they received less than half the 2015 number of [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Approved Over 50% of User Submitted Spam Requests in 2016 Google has released its Webspam Report for 2016, which provides insight into the top webspam trends [...] - Search Engine Journal

April, 18 2017

5 ways your merchandising strategy is affecting SEO performance How does your merchandising strategy affect SEO? Columnist Stephanie LeVonne describes the various [...] - Search Engine Land
6 types of negative SEO to watch out for The threat of negative SEO is remote but daunting. How easy is it to for a competitor to ruin your [...] - Search Engine Land
How we fought webspam - Webspam Report 2016 With 2017 well underway, we wanted to take a moment and share some of the insights we gathered in [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google did not ban Infowars; did rescind quality example using an Infowars article Infowars article was used to help illustrate how quality raters might judge content, but raters [...] - Search Engine Land
New Google Earth delivers guided tours, 3D images & an ‘I’m feeling lucky’ feature It's currently only available on Chrome and Android, but Google says its latest version of Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Esther Afua Ocloo Google doodle honors co-founder & chairman of Women’s World Banking Ocloo spent her life helping the women of Ghana -- and, eventually, the world -- start and run [...] - Search Engine Land
Part 2 of 2: How Google learns to guide purchasing decisions In a follow-up to his last article, columnist Dave Davies explores a Google patent on guided [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Posts from NBA, NHL & MLB teams will now appear in Knowledge Panels According to Google's latest update, a quick search will bring up an "all-star lineup of [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Maps Timeline finally comes to iOS Feature available on Android and desktop since 2015 hits iOS; Google's main iOS search app also [...] - Search Engine Land
90% Of SEOs Achieve Ranking Success Within A Year A few months ago, I covered the topic of how long does it take to rank well in Google. In a Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 17 2017

Google Launching a Job Search Service Called “Google Hire” Google is preparing to launch a new jobs service, which is already sparking controversy. - Search Engine Journal
Local search ranking factors: What’s working in 2017 [Podcast] In our new episode, we chat with Darren Shaw about the just-released Local Search Ranking Factors [...] - Search Engine Land
YouTube Allows Live Streaming for Channels with 1,000 Subscribers YouTube has significantly reduced the threshold that must be met for users to initiate live streams [...] - Search Engine Journal
[Reminder] Webinar — National Brands & Local Search: Use Insights to Drive Actions With nearly one third of all mobile searches now related to location, the competition for [...] - Search Engine Land
Data-driven attribution delivers better results than last-click There are more moments throughout the day for businesses to connect with consumers than ever [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Mobile-First Index Will Have Some Affect On Link Graph Google is still working hard at switching over to their mobile first index and we are hopeful that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Search Ranking Factors From Moz Moz released their local search ranking factors study results for 2017. They do these studies every [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
When Google Rankings Drop After Submitting a Disavow File When submitting a disavow file, oftentimes people also disavow great links that help rankings, and [...] - The SEM Post
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 17, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 14 2017

Google Introduces New Look for Blog Search Results Google has quietly rolled out a new look for blog search results. - Search Engine Journal
The 8 time- & money-saving SEO tools I pay for (& 17 more I use for free) With all of the tools available in the SEO space, it's tough to know the best software to apply to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google image search adds ‘style ideas’ after ‘similar items’ goes live Google says with the new image search feature, they can "help boost your search style IQ." - Search Engine Land
Now You Can Find ‘Style Ideas’ With Google Image Search Google has introduced a new feature called “style ideas” for image searches on the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Now you can log into multiple Google Merchant Center accounts with the same email The change greatly simplifies user access for Shopping feeds and other Merchant Center programs. - Search Engine Land
Test your knowledge! The Search Engine Watch Easter trivia quiz Happy Easter, Search Engine Watch readers! In honour of the season, we have put together a [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: There Is No CAPS Search Ranking Penalty We know capital letters in URLs don't necessarily hurt your rankings and we also know that using [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Enables Multiple Merchant Center Account & Access Google community manager, Cassie, announced in the Google Advertisers Help forums that you can now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Featured Snippets Showing More Images Now Yesterday we reported that featured snippets can source images from different content sources, so [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Tweeting At Googlers Likely Won't Land You In The Google Bird House There are some really paranoid folks out there, those that think if they post anything publicly [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Title Tag Keywords in CAPS Do Not Impact Google Rankings If you are using CAPS in your title tags, either to highlight keywords or perhaps to follow brand [...] - The SEM Post
Using Nofollow for Siloing Will Not Cause Google Penalty Using nofollow on internal links has been a technique to silo pages within a site for crawl budget [...] - The SEM Post

April, 13 2017

Teaching Machines to Draw Posted by David Ha, Google Brain Resident Abstract visual communication is a key part of how [...] - Google Research
Are AdWords advertisers about to get a lot more Quality Score reporting metrics? A short-lived blog post indicates useful changes are coming to help advertisers analyze Quality [...] - Search Engine Land
2017 Local Search Ranking Factors: Proximity to Searcher is Number One Here are the top local search ranking factors of 2017, according to dozens of local search experts. - Search Engine Journal
Google: Domain Age Doesn't Matter For Search Rankings Google's John Mueller responded with a resounding "no" when he was asked if domain age [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Your flexible SEO strategy: Creation, execution and measurement in an ever-changing environment Columnist Janet Driscoll Miller discusses some of the top challenges SEOs are facing today and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Use As Many H1 Tags As You Want Some of the responses I am seeing from John Mueller of Google are funny this week. In response to a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
1,000 ways to redirect What's in a redirect? Columnist Patrick Stox provides a primer on redirects, showing why this [...] - Search Engine Land
Now Image Search can jump-start your search for style Image Search is full of pics to help you find inspiration—whether it’s places to [...] - Inside Search
Google My Business Lets You Enter URL Attributes For Other Business Information Google quietly added a feature to the Google My Business spreadsheet uploads to enter URL [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Featured Snippets Now Sourcing Different Image From Content Source Google's featured snippets are now capable of using a different image source from the article [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Interview: Why marketers shouldn’t waste their time with Google Posts Michael Bertini, Online Marketing Consultant and Search Strategist at iQuanti, told Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Watch

April, 12 2017

The complete guide to optimizing content for SEO (with checklist) Google has stated that "content" is among its top three ranking factors, but what makes [...] - Search Engine Land
4 mistakes to avoid during a website audit A good website audit is important for getting a holistic view of your site's SEO health. Columnist [...] - Search Engine Land
Here’s a script to stop ads from showing next to offensive videos Wondering how to avoid embarrassing or controversial video ad placements on YouTube? Frederick [...] - Search Engine Land
Facebook Makes 5 Changes To Video Metrics Facebook is making five changes to video metrics in Page Insights, adding a couple new metrics and [...] - Search Engine Journal

April, 11 2017

Just released: 2017 Local Search Ranking Factors survey results After taking a year off, latest version of survey again features educated opinions from almost 40 [...] - Search Engine Land
Link building: Preliminary research and analysis Columnist Andrew Dennis outlines the research necessary to provide a solid foundation for your [...] - Search Engine Land
Introducing tf-seq2seq: An Open Source Sequence-to-Sequence Framework in TensorFlow Posted by Anna Goldie and Denny Britz, Research Software Engineer and Google Brain Resident, Google [...] - Google Research
Is Google really keeping fake listings off Google Maps? A recent study released by Google claims that fewer than 0.5% of local searches lead to fake [...] - Search Engine Land
Patent 1 of 2: How Google learns to influence and control users Columnist Dave Davies does a deep dive into a recently granted Google patent that describes how [...] - Search Engine Land

April, 10 2017

Announcing the 2017 Google PhD Fellows for North America, Europe and the Middle East Posted by Michael Rennaker, Program Manager Google created the PhD Fellowship program in 2009 [...] - Google Research
Submit URLs to Google in Google’s search results Google has added a new location to submit URLs to their index. Where is it? In the search results. - Search Engine Land
Google to hold annual livestream of AdWords, Analytics, DoubleClick announcements May 23 Says updates will touch on simplified measurement, improved targeting and ways brands are starting [...] - Search Engine Land
Google announces similar items schema for image search on mobile New search feature covers small group of product types now, but Google says it will expand in the [...] - Search Engine Land
New Facebook Instant Articles CTAs: Page Likes & Email Sign-Ups People who read your Facebook Instant Articles will now be able to like your page or sign up for [...] - Search Engine Journal
Similar items: Rich products feature on Google Image Search Image Search recently launched “Similar items” on mobile web and the Android Search [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google working on fixing bug with the links to your site report Google Search Console reporting bug leads webmasters to panic over ranking issues. There is no [...] - Search Engine Land
Google to Personalize Gboard Search Results Using Cloud-Based Machine Learning Google is currently testing a new way to train its artificial intelligence algorithms using Android [...] - Search Engine Journal
Submit Any URL To Google For Indexing Within The Search Results Interface Go to Google and search for [submit URL to Google] and Google will place a box at the top of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Strategies for capturing ‘made in the USA’ searches Does your company or client sell American-made products? Columnist Dianna Huff kicks off her [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Image Search Introduces “Similar Items” Suggestions Google Image Search has launched “Similar items” suggestions on mobile and the Android [...] - Search Engine Journal

April, 8 2017

Mary Pickford Google doodle marks 125th birthday of the ‘Queen of Movies’ A celebrated actress, director, and producer during the silent film era, Pickford remains one of [...] - Search Engine Land

April, 7 2017

Fact Check now available in Google Search and News around the world Google was built to help people find useful information by surfacing the great content that [...] - Inside Search
Google expands fact checking effort to all searches worldwide Is some claim true or not? Google hopes special callouts for fact-checking articles will help [...] - Search Engine Land
YouTube Channels With Under 10K Views Can No Longer Display Ads Google is ramping up its efforts to ensure ads do not appear alongside questionable YouTube videos. - Search Engine Journal
E-commerce companies can improve revenue by following these 5 tips Looking to take your e-commerce business to the next level? Columnist Trond Lyngbø has some [...] - Search Engine Land
5 quick SEO wins for new clients Columnist Christian Sculthorp surveyed industry experts to find out where they look for easy wins [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Continues to Crack Down on Fake Google Maps Listings Google has released new data which details its recent efforts to keep fake listings off Google Maps. - Search Engine Journal
Google: Bounce Rate Is Not A Good Ranking Signal Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter that bounce rate is simply not a good ranking signal for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Predicting Properties of Molecules with Machine Learning Posted George Dahl, Research Scientist, Google Brain Team Recently there have been many exciting [...] - Google Research
Ask.com exposing real-time user queries to the public Ask.com left its server status Apache page open to the public, exposing private search data to the [...] - Search Engine Land

April, 6 2017

What the data tells us about the death of exact match and its impact Following Google's recent changes to exact match in AdWords, many search marketers were concerned [...] - Search Engine Land
Siri is Google’s nearest mobile search competitor [Report] According to a survey from Fivesight Research, Siri had a larger share of mobile search than Bing [...] - Search Engine Land
Google says it has reduced fake Google Maps listings by 70% since 2015 Company cites machine learning and new business verification techniques as main reasons for the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google hopeful the mobile-first index will launch by year’s end But Gary Illyes says it might not go live until 2018. - Search Engine Land
Google Maps Now Lets You Review Continents and Oceans You can find virtually anything on Google, and it appears that now includes reviews for [...] - Search Engine Journal
6 Ways You Can Use Social Listening Now Social media listening has many benefits for companies. Monitoring what your customers say on [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google is Cooler Than Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook — According to Google Survey A new Google survey reveals what today's teens think are the coolest brands. - Search Engine Journal

April, 5 2017

In the age of RankBrain, these foundational SEO issues still matter Search engine technology has evolved, algorithms have become more advanced, and SEO tactics and [...] - Search Engine Land
Why the future is all about PASO — personal assistant search optimization Have you started considering voice search in your SEO strategy? Columnist John Lincoln explains why [...] - Search Engine Land
Contributor, beware of PageRank-hoarding publishers So you've found a great site to contribute content to -- or have you? Columnist Stephan Spencer [...] - Search Engine Land
SEOs Not Hot on Website Chatbots? [POLL] How many marketers are using chatbots on their websites? Find out what our Twitter community said [...] - Search Engine Journal

April, 4 2017

Now You Can Become a Google Certified Mobile Site Developer Google has launched a Mobile Sites certification program. Become an accredited mobile site [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Introduces Verified Customer Reviews, Retires Trusted Stores Program Google is retiring its Trusted Stores program while introducing a brand new way to gain [...] - Search Engine Journal
Please take Search Engine Land’s SEO Success Factors Survey Your feedback helps us update The Periodic Table Of SEO Success Factors. Please lend us a few [...] - Search Engine Land
The problem with obsessive rank tracking Search engine optimization (SEO) is often focused on achieving high rankings in search results [...] - Search Engine Land
New: LinkedIn Launches Lead Gen Forms LinkedIn has launched Lead Gen Forms. This new feature in Sponsored Content campaigns removes a [...] - Search Engine Journal
SMX West: Solving SEO Issues in Google’s Post-Update World Now that Google no longer regularly announced algorithm updates, it can be hard to tell when your [...] - Search Engine Land
Content Marketers: Organic Traffic Is The Key Success Metric How are content marketers measuring the success of the content they create? Organic traffic is the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Taking the brand/agency partnership to the next level Contributor Laura Scott recaps a session from SMX West that focused on how to strengthen the [...] - Search Engine Land

April, 3 2017

A deep look at Google’s biggest-ever search quality crisis Under fire for months, can Google reverse the drip-drip-drip of criticism as incorrect, absurd or [...] - Search Engine Land
Google testing ‘tags’ label in search results snippets A new Google experiment updates the search results snippets to show tags related to the page. But [...] - Search Engine Land
SEO and social: 1 + 1 = 3 Columnist Eric Enge recaps a session from SMX West detailing fresh ideas for how search engine [...] - Search Engine Land
Fazlur Rahman Khan doodle honors architect behind Chicago’s famous skyscrapers Khan designed Chicago's 100-story John Hancock Center and the Willis Tower (formerly known as the [...] - Search Engine Land
5 easy ways to launch a local email marketing strategy If your company's email marketing campaign isn’t seeing success, you might want to rethink [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: There Were Other Updates Around The Release Of Fred When I reported on the Fred update that hit on March 8th and came up with my analysis, I said [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google" Sitemap Priority Field Is "A Bag Of Noise" Google has always downplayed the importance of priority and chance frequency in the XML sitemap [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Bulk Quality = Low Quality In Search Rankings Some of the questions SEOs send to Google seem to always amaze me. Basically people asking Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Consistent Hashing with Bounded Loads Posted by Vahab Mirrokni, Principal Scientist, Morteza Zadimoghaddam, Research Scientist, NYC [...] - Google Research
A Major Google Update On March 30th? I Don't Think So. Late last week, most of the automated tracking tools that monitor the Google search results [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 1 2017

How It’s Done: Animals on the Bing homepage How does the Bing team get all those amazing animal photos? Take a peek inside Bing Studios. - Bing Search
Google April Fools' Day 2017 April Fools' Day should probably be called Google Fools' Day, since there are so many Google [...] - Google Operating System