It's been a crazy couple of years for SEO. We've seen the rise of unnatural links manual penalties. The infamous algo updates like Panda and Penguin, and some lesser talked about ones like the page layout algorithm.
Ever wanted to craft art on Google's homepage? Today is your lucky day – if, for some reason, your mother really likes Google's logo. Google celebrates Mother's Day 2013 with an extravagant interactive Google Doodle that lets you craft, print, and...
YouTube recently announced that the video-sharing website created in 2005 is now was getting more than 1 billion unique visitors every month. And this week Robert Kyncl, Vice President, Global Head of Content Partnerships for YouTube, announced...
Today's Google Doodle for Earth Day 2013 has a lot to experience. So much, in fact, Google created a "sightseeing checklist" to make sure you don't miss anything. All four seasons, animals, and weather that you control are among the natural wonders...
Smells like April Fools' Day. You know, immature and cheesy, with a quick, bright finish. At least according to Google Nose, one of the latest additions to Google's long line of new technologies that never seem to quite make it past April 2.
Google is wishing users a happy St. Patrick's Day today with a cute animated Google Doodle featuring a group of six Irish step dancers (five girls and a boy) all dressed in green, with each bearing one of the letters making up Google's name.
Citing declining usage and a focus on fewer products, Google today gave notice to its loyal (but apparently too few in number) users that its RSS platform is going away permanently via a message in Google Reader (“Google Reader will not be...
Today's interactive Google Doodle featuring the famous words "DON'T PANIC" (in large, friendly letters on the cover) is in tribute to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and author Douglas Adams, who was born on this date in 1952.
Forgoing the traditional Valentine's Day Doodle, Google has produced a new interactive Doodle primarily honoring American engineer George Ferris. Today's Google Doodle depicts a carnival scene with the traditional Google letters illustrated as rides.
Google has been cleared of charges that it failed to adequately distinguish paid search ads from organic search results. Australia’s High Court ruled that Google didn’t engage in misleading or deceptive conduct because Google didn’t create the ads.
Yahoo has announced a new image search. Images are now also pulled from Flickr, the photo sharing service owned by Yahoo since 2005. The new image search allows you to find photos that are available for re-use using the Creative Commons licensing...
Exactly a year ago today, you may have spotted the relaunch of HitTail… or you may have totally missed it - like I did. New CEO, Rob Walling's plan was to quietly relaunch his new acquisition with as little fanfare as possible.
SEW met the people behind Google Crisis Response at I/O 2012. The work of this small, relatively unknown, team is indicative of the future of information retrieval on connected devices and their journey illustrates why search must continually evolve.
Apparently Google jumped the shark this week, punched some nuns in the face, and clubbed some baby seals by introducing an obtrusive new element to their home page. No, not the new Google+ birthday reminders.
Didit has acquired SEO, social and comparison shopping engine management company Inceptor from SuperMedia (formerly Verizon Information Services). The deal will result in the two remaining standalone brands, while incorporating their complementary...
It was announced on Aug 8 that the New York Times is in talks to sell its Internet property About.com. The New York Times acquired About.com in 2005 for $410 million dollars from Primedia Inc. News of this sale propelled New York Times' stock to...
Happy Fourth of July to all of our readers in the United States! Just as barbecues and fireworks have become tradition on this date, so too have holiday Google Doodles. Today, Google has checked in with its 13th Independence Day themed logo...
Happy Father's Day! Google’s tribute to dads in more than 70 countries – from Japan, to India, to the UK, and most of North America – for Father's Day 2012 comes in the form of an animated logo. On landing on the Google homepage, visitors are...
Social platform Meebo has announced their acquisition by Google. The deal, reportedly worth $100 million, is designed to help Google attract and keep users active within their social network, Google+.
Google has no obligation to “police (YouTube) content before it is put online as long as it informs users that posting television shows, music videos, concerts or advertisements without prior consent of the owner is not allowed.
