About ten days ago, Rob Ousbey posted a video on his blog showing Google streaming updates to search results as he typed letters into a search box. As he typed out his query, not only did he see a dropdown of suggested queries, but the search results t…
Read the rest of this entry »Interested in finding a blog about a particular topic or place, rather than individual blog posts? A recent change with Google’s blog search is intended to make it easier to do so. The timing of the change interestingly corresponds to the grantin…
Read the rest of this entry »Might Google rank links to pages differently based a perception of how related or affiliated those pages might be to each other? For instance, if three pages authored by the same person link to a fourth page, and two other pages, each written by other …
Read the rest of this entry »Does Google favor big brands when showing search results? That question has been bandied about on the Web for a while, but the answer may be more complicated than just a matter of brands. The question arose this morning on Malcolm Coles’ blog, i…
Read the rest of this entry »A simple look at search market share in Europe shows that Europe is a Google continent. Though the search giant’s headquarters are physically based in Silicon Valley, a huge part of their community is based in Europe. Only Yandex in Russia and Se…
Read the rest of this entry »Your website may be invaded by robots at any time. If you’re lucky that is – at least if you want people to visit you from places like Google or Yahoo or Bing. And, if the visiting robots are polite. In the early days of the Web, automated …
Read the rest of this entry »Google’s recent purchase of Metaweb, who run the Freebase directory left many wondering at the motivations behind the acquisition. Did Google buy the company for its technology, for its Freebase directory, for the expertise of its employees? A G…
Read the rest of this entry »When you enter a set of keywords into Google, the search engine attempts to find all the pages that it can which contain those keywords, and return a set of results ordered based upon a combination of relevance and importance scores. But it’s possible that many of the pages that could possibly be returned [...]
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