Category Archives: Search Engine News

Top SEO News: Week of March 5, 2012

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Check out the top SEO, search engine and Internet marketing industry news stories from around the Web this week.

Google is Watching You (Or Not): New Privacy Policy Takes Effect Today
Google’s new privacy policy is now in effect. Google states that the new policy will “simplify privacy across Google’s many properties and make it possible for the company to build a range of new products and services for consumers, including on mobile.” Read more details here.

Localeze/15miles Fifth Annual comScore Local Search Usage Study Reveals SoLoMo Revolution Has Taken Over
According to a recent study, social, local and mobile (SoLoMo) is currently dominating the search marketplace. Read more about the study here.

Bing Testing New, Google-y Local Search Results
Bing’s new display for local search results looks very similar to Google’s local search results. Compare the two, read the full article here.

comScore Releases January 2012 U.S. Search Engine Rankings
comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, released its monthly analysis of search. View the findings of the study here.

Foursquare Co-founder Naveen Selvadurai is Checking Out
Naveen Selvadurai, the co-founder of the social network, Foursquare recently announced that he will be leaving the company to pursue new projects.

Top SEO News: Week of February 6, 2012

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Google’s January Search Update: Panda in the Pipelines, Fresher Results, Date Detection and More
Check out the latest updates from Google, including a new Panda algorithm update, fresher results, autocomplete, date detection and more.

Facebook Turns 8, and Together We’ve Grown
In honor of Facebook’s 8th birthday, Mashable takes a look back at the evolution of the social network.

Latest Google Search Revamp Brings Opportunities for Local Businesses
Google’s newest updates will likely allow local businesses to combine their SEO and social media strategies using Google+.

Social Media Ad Spend: 89% on Facebook, 39% on Twitter and 18% on Google+
See which social media networks advertising agencies plan to use in 2012 with this report from Strata.

Google Instant: Only On When Your Computer can Handle It
Google Instant now has a new default preference, it’s only enabled if your computer can handle it, otherwise Google will automatically disable the application.

Top SEO News: Week of January 30, 2012

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Study: Reviews and Images Drive Clicks in Mobile
According to a study conducted by Mediative, a Canadian digital agency, images and reviews are very important to people using the Google app on their mobile phones.

Google, Yahoo Form Group to Tackle Phishing
The top search engines, Google, Yahoo!, Bing and AOL recently joined forces to create DMARC.org, an organization to battle phishing.

Pinterest Becomes Top Traffic Driver for Retailers
Pinterest, the social bookmarketing website that lets users share photos they like online is driving a significant amount of traffic to retailers’ websites. The site’s popularity is quickly growing and the traffic Pinterest is sending out to other places on the web is steadily increasing.

Yahoo! Shutters 10 Mobile Apps
Yahoo! recently announced that 10 of its apps will no longer be supported on both the Android and iOS platforms.

Report: Twitter Will Begin Enhanced Profile Roll-Out in February
According to BusinessInsider, Twitter’s enhanced profile pages for brands may launch as early as February 1.