Google search manipulation starves some websites of traffic – PCWorldHarvard Business School associate professor Ben Edelman, who is a paid Microsoft consultant, puts out another anti-Google study, this time on flight search, and reports an "85...
Following a scandal involving one merchant (who eventually was sentenced to 4 years in prison) who used negative publicity to rank higher in Google's search results in 2010, Google Fellow Amit Singhal, in announcing an algorithmic change, stated...
A Google Penguin data refresh rounds out a trilogy of algorithmic updates that also included Panda and Exact Match Domain updates (not to mention those other 60+ Google updates from August and September).
However, the feedback from Google's human raters no doubt play some part in the roughly 500 algorithmic tweaks that occur every year. As a reminder, Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts insists that these ratings don’t “directly” affect the...
Though the black and white animal was a coincidence, Cutts said it may become a theme for algorithmic updates. Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts was the headline attraction this morning as SES San Francisco 2012 Day 2 kicked off.
In theory, this would be hard to detect with a purely algorithmic approach. Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts confirmed this with me in a recent interview: One of the great things about this is that it causes the author of a piece of...
With major algorithmic updates like Panda and Penguin fresh in everyone’s mind, as well as the giant batch of unnatural link warnings sent out in March, the panic was immediate. After successfully scaring the crap out of many business, along came...
Once those URL ratings are assigned, engineers can test proposed algorithmic changes within Google’s internal corporate network and have the new results evaluated. Matt Cutts, Google Distinguished Engineer and head of the web spam team, tackled the...
Google has named its latest web spam algorithmic update Penguin. On the form, Google asks you to provide details about the page impacted by the algorithmic update, which launched on April 24 and was intended to better detect websites using tactics...
Except Google called it an algorithmic update that’s targeting web spam – a.k.a.keyword stuffing and link schemes, in the process causing some big search ranking upheavals. Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts, head of the web spam team...
Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts, in a blog post, reported that the “Page Layout algorithmic improvement” will effect 1 percent of searches globally – which is no small number considering Google powers at least 3 billion searches per day...
