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Rob D Young

2011

Industry

Google Adds New List Snippet Format

Google has released a new snippet format that extracts details from long lists and displays them in a bullet-point on…

31 Aug 2011

Industry

Yandex Buys Social Newspaper The Tweeted Times

Russia's top search engine Yandex has bought social newspaper service The Tweeted Times, which compiles content shared by those you…

31 Aug 2011

Industry

DuckDuckGo, Google+ Among TIME’s Top 50 Best Websites of 2011

DuckDuckGo, the startup search engine that emphasizes user privacy, has been named as one of TIME's Top 50 websites of…

30 Aug 2011

Industry

U.S. Attorney: Larry Page Knew About, Allowed Pharmacy Ads

Documents, emails, and witnesses confirm that Google CEO Larry Page knew about and allowed ads from online pharmacies for years.…

30 Aug 2011

SEO

Google Panda Update in Europe: Winners & Losers in Switzerland, Italy, Spain

With the early August release of the Panda algorithm update on a global scale we saw substantial changes in several…

30 Aug 2011

Industry

Google News Content Now Crawled via Googlebot

Due to an infrastructure change, Google News is now using the Googlebot instead of a dedicated crawler to examine web…

29 Aug 2011

PPC

Google AdWords Editor 9.5 Released

Google has launched version 9.5 of the Google AdWords Editor for Windows and Mac computers. The latest version streamlines several…

29 Aug 2011

Local

Google Wants to Get More Local Businesses Online

Google is extending its offerings for small, local businesses with the addition of city pages highlighting Google Places pages and…

29 Aug 2011

Mobile

Google Makes All AdWords Phone Numbers Clickable for Mobile

When AdWords advertisers place a phone number in their ad copy, the phone number will be clickable by default, Google…

29 Aug 2011

Industry

34% of Referrals to Facebook Pages Come from Google, Yahoo, Bing [Study]

Despite the Bing-Facebook alliance, Google sends Facebook the most traffic. More than a third of external referrals to Facebook pages…

29 Aug 2011