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How search engines work, compete, and change. 2,752 articles
SEO

53% of Organic Search Clicks Go to First Link [Study]

When it comes to paid search, 55 percent of search engine results pages have ads. Although 61 percent of paid search ads…

By Miranda Miller · 10 Oct 2012

Local

Making Big Data Smart: A 360-Degree Online View of a Business

The lack of online business identity consistency via a universal repository is making it difficult for local search players to reap the…

By Jeff Beard · 10 Oct 2012

Mobile

Google Crisis Response: From Search Engine to Information Provider

SEW met the people behind Google Crisis Response at I/O 2012. The work of this small, relatively unknown, team is indicative of…

By Jonathan Allen · 05 Oct 2012

SEO

SEO 101: Meet the White Hats, Gray Hats, Black Hats & Asshats

On the heels of yet another “SEOs are just gaming the system and taking advantage of poor users” article, it’s time to…

By Kristine Schachinger · 04 Oct 2012

PPC

Top 10 High Impact Google AdWords Innovations to Watch Now

In the future world of Google AdWords, ads will contain dynamic features and ads will create themselves. Searchers can become more interactive…

By Lisa Raehsler · 03 Oct 2012

SEO

Google Warns of Upcoming Exact Match Domain Algorithm Change

A tweet from Google’s head of web spam spells trouble for webmasters who have relied on keywords in their domain name to…

By Miranda Miller · 02 Oct 2012

Social

Twitter Ad Revenue Play: Now Allowing More Search Engine Indexing

Twitter made a change to their robots.txt file this month that will allow search engines like Google to crawl and index Twitter…

By Miranda Miller · 27 Sep 2012

Industry

Google Birthday Doodle Gives Power to the Poople

By now, most Google users are accustomed to seeing Google celebrate the birthdays of famous artists, scientists, and holidays or events. Today,…

By Danny Goodwin · 27 Sep 2012

Development

Google Rich Snippets Testing Tool Gets New Name, Design, Languages

Google announced changes to the rich snippets testing tool late last week, including new languages and a new name, the Structured Data…

By Miranda Miller · 24 Sep 2012

Social

Facebook Adding Search History to Activity Log

Facebook has announced that it will be rolling out a personal search history record within the Activity Log over the coming weeks,…

By Miranda Miller · 24 Sep 2012