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Algorithm updates, product launches, and two decades of covering the company that defines search. 8,747 articles
Social

Google+ Waiting For ‘Hypergrowth’, Partners With Flipboard

Bradley Horowitz says Google+ hasn't yet reached the intense period of growth that has been experienced by competitors such as Facebook and…

By Rosalie Marshall · 20 Jun 2012

Local

Google Maps UK River, Canal Routes

Google is undertaking the project in conjunction with the Canal & River Trust, which is responsible for the UK's water systems, and…

By Search Engine Watch · 20 Jun 2012

Industry

YouTube MP3 Conversion Website Told to End Download Service

Large Youtube to MP3 conversion website Youtube-MP3.org has been threatened with legal action, and seen its servers blocked from accessing YouTube because…

By Lee Bell · 20 Jun 2012

Social

Facebook Dominates Web With More Home Page Integration Than Google+, Twitter Combined

Of the top 10,000 websites, 24.3% have official Facebook home page integration. If you include all other links to Facebook, almost half…

By Miranda Miller · 19 Jun 2012

Industry

Google Reveals More Government Search Censorship Requests

In the last half of 2011, governments asked Google to remove about 12,000 pieces of content from their search index and attempted…

By Miranda Miller · 19 Jun 2012

Industry

Search vs. Social: The 50 Shades of Gray in Online Information Retrieval

Those who posit Facebook with improved search poses a genuine threat to Google’s search dominance are painting a broad picture with a…

By Nathan Safran · 19 Jun 2012

Local

How Big Data is Fundamentally Changing Local Search

Beyond algorithmic changes that local search is likely to experience in the next few years, we’re witnessing a changing of the guard…

By Jiyan Wei · 19 Jun 2012

Video

Video Ad Views Grow 117% Year Over Year

180 million U.S. Internet users watched nearly 36.6 billion online content videos in May 2012, according to comScore Video Metrix data. Video…

By Greg Jarboe · 19 Jun 2012

Industry

Facebook Chief Technology Officer Bret Taylor Resigns

Facebook's Chief Technology Officer has announced his resignation from the company. Bret Taylor, who in the past also worked for Google, said…

By Shaun Nichols · 18 Jun 2012

Social

Game Over for Bejeweled Blitz & More Google+ Games

You can no longer play “Bejeweled Blitz” on Google+. The popular game has been pulled from Google+ Games, PopCap confirmed. PopCap thanked…

By Danny Goodwin · 18 Jun 2012