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Algorithm updates, product launches, and two decades of covering the company that defines search. 8,722 articles
Mobile

Googlebot for Smartphones & Some Useful Stats

Last week Google announced that Googlebot-Mobile now crawls with a smartphone user-agent in addition to previous feature phone users-agents. The new crawler…

By John Rampton · 21 Dec 2011

Social

Google+ Strategy: 5 Tips to Help Marketers Get Ready for Brand Pages

No one knows where Google+ will land on the social network success matrix, but one thing is for sure: Google will throw…

By Ron Schott · 21 Dec 2011

Industry

US Senators Ask FTC to Launch Formal Anti-trust Investigation into Google

Senators Herb Kohl and Mike Lee have written to the FTC (PDF) about their fears that Google could be abusing its dominant…

By Dave Neal · 20 Dec 2011

SEO

SEO Christmas Wish List

Being a good SEO, there are a few things I’d like to ask for – for all the boys and girls out…

By Simon Heseltine · 20 Dec 2011

Social

Google+ Brand Pages Get Multiple Admins; Adds Stream “Volume Control”

Google announced a number of small changes for Google+ today, including a number of often-requested Page features and a type of volume…

By Miranda Miller · 20 Dec 2011

Social

5 Reasons Google+ Is Not A Facebook Killer

Google+ is an interesting social media experiment, but it is likely to remain just that: another "almost ran" in the social media…

By Dave Davies · 20 Dec 2011

Mobile

Google Updates Movie & Image Search for Mobile Devices

Google has added some fancy features for the hyper-mobile. Those using a mobile device to search for movies will find movie information,…

By Rob D Young · 19 Dec 2011

Industry

One-Word Searches: Search Engines Doing More With Less

We’re seeing one-word search queries’ share of total search activity growing fast. Is this due to mobile search, Google Instant, or something…

By Paul Burani · 19 Dec 2011

Local

Most People Rely on Search Engines to Find Local Businesses [Study]

PEWInternet recently conducted a survey in which 1087 adults (age 18 and older) were interviewed in both English and Spanish about their…

By John Rampton · 19 Dec 2011

SEO

Creating Win-Win Link Building Scenarios

Many link building efforts fail, usually due to misguided approach of thinking in quantity rather than quality. Applying group dynamics is one…

By John Lynch · 18 Dec 2011