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This summer, Google was granted a patent that describes how the search engine might rank events based upon data that might indicate the popularity of those events, without relying on things such as the number of links pointed to pages about those...

It looks like Google is or has worked on tweaking the top stories algorithm to filter out fake news sites, or rather, promote higher quality news sites from showing in that box...

Google's Gary Illyes said this morning that he is "hunting" for spammy EMDs, exact match domains...

Many of your probably read the Search Risk - How Google Almost Killed ProtonMail story from a month ago - it has been something I've been tracking since August. In August...

I’ve seen posts from SEO by the Sea show up in search results with an “In the News” heading above them, even though my site hasn’t officially been accepted in Google News. Some blog posts that have been given that “In the News” treatment have...

Last week, Google pledged to fight “fake news” in its search results yet offered up no solutions to the problem. That’s likely because Google has no easy fix.

Google especially came under fire after it listed a site with incorrect “final” US presidential election counts as the top listing for searches such as “final votes” or “final election count.”

Media outlets soon picked up on this. In response, Google said that it would block advertising to sites that mispresent themselves and...

It seems we may have had a Google algorithm update yet again over the weekend. You can actually see all our confirmed and unconfirmed Google updates...

On Monday, we reported about the ongoing chatter around a potential Google search algorithm update that touched down on November 10th of last week. Some of the...

On Thursday, November 10th, I saw some random chatter in the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread about zombie traffic and potential algorithmic updates to Google - but the chatter was pretty weak...