Facebook is driving large amount of traffic to news sites but Google remains the top referring service, according to a study. The study examined the 25 most popular news websites in the United States, looking at how users get to the sites, how long they stay there, how deep they explore a site and where [...]
Archive for the ‘Search Engine News’ Category
Bing to Overtake Google in 2012?
April 16th, 2011
Comments Off
We’ve long had competition in search and I call it search engine war, stretching back to when search engines as we know them started to emerge in 1994. A search engine is a program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found. And we know [...]
Google’s Tribute to Sundaes
April 3rd, 2011
Comments Off
After three days marking April Fools’ Day with its Gmail Motion gag the search engine king, true to its notorious April Fools’ Day tradition of jokes and hoaxes, Google “officially announced” the availability of Gmail Motion for all to see, and for some to believe. Gmail Motion is allegedly “a new way to communicate” via [...]
Google Crackdown on “CONTENT FARMS”
February 26th, 2011
Comments Off
Google launched the clean-up after users urged stronger action against so-called content farms. Now maybe this the first time you heard of “Content Farms“. What really is a Content Farms? A content farms is a company that employs large numbers of often freelance low-paid writers to generate large amounts of textual content or videos which [...]
Google Targets Webspam Sites
January 25th, 2011
Comments Off
Well after a massive Google PageRank update recently there has major changes on Google algorithm. Most blogs and websites have increased their PR and most of them also decrease its PR. But that’s not all. You might also wonder that some of your blog post or blog suddenly gone in search results rankings? Google last [...]
