Google still thinks it can change China
By saying it no longer wants to offer censored search results in China, Google hopes it could change the way the country enforces censorship laws, according to its CEO. Originally posted at Relevant Results
Bing Debuts In-Depth Stock Pages
Bing has announced a new “Stocks and Funds page” that offers in-depth information for users following or doing research related to stocks and finances. A sample page looks like this one for Apple:Searching on Bing for a company’s o…
10 Blue Links (and a Bunch of Other Stuff!)
Google announced product listing ads today, a cost-per-action ad program that shows images in the search results:Product Listing Ads is part of our effort to simplify the advertising process for merchants with large product inventories. Some of the …
Local SEO Limitations to Acknowledge Now!
Local SEO is not just something that might help a business anymore, it will. In today’s business space it is absolutely vital for all business to position themselves in search results appropriately so that local visitors can easily locate a bus…
Google Makes Social Search Available in Beta
Sometime last year, Google rolled out its social search experiement with the aim of making search, well, more social. No, specifically to make relevant web content available of Google search results. By relevant Google means contents from your frien…
Google Social Search Goes Live, Adds New Features
Google has begun the rollout of its Social Search product, a way of seeing customized search results based upon the people in your social network. Social Search has been an opt-in Google Labs experiment since its debut in October, but will be availa…
Search Engine Success: Getting Video SEO Right
With search engines now including video content in blended search results, video SEO offers one of the greatest opportunities for companies to cost-effectively drive increased site visitation. …
Collecta Widget Brings Real-Time Search Results To Any Site
Collecta has announced the availability of a new widget that allows any webmaster/blogger to show real-time search results on a web page. The widget builder is available now at widget.collecta.com, and includes several customization options includin…
Ballmer Critical Of Google’s China Decision
At a conference in Houston on Thursday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke critically of Google’s recent decision to stop censoring its search results in China. Paraphrasing some of Ballmer’s statements, Forbes says Ballmer called it an &…
Google Search Now Answers Your Questions
Google’s just rolled out two new features — answer highlights in search results and rich snippets for events — in the ongoing process to improve the underlying technology and functionality of its core product: Search.While the tech…