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My latest column for A List Apart was published today. From The Analog Revolution:

So I wonder. I wonder what would happen if we felt the weight of responsibility a little more when we’re designing software. What if we go into a project as if the product we make might not only be done at some point, but might be something that lasts for a while? Would we make it fit into the web environment better, give it a timeless aesthetic, add fewer unnecessary features, and spend more time...

Google announced they are now making efforts to "aggressively targeting hacked spam in order to protect users and webmasters...

I don't always say this but I think Google misspoke here. Gary Illyes responded to a question from Glenn Gabe asking if "Panda 4.2 is rolling out slowly, but it's manually being pushed (at intervals)."

Gary Illyes from Google said "yes...

September was an interesting month because we had a nice number of ranking fluctuations in Google, all seemed somewhat algorithmic...

So we had this from John Mueller a couple weeks ago, that the next Penguin update that Google plans on releasing will be real-time and hopefully by the end of the year.
Gary Illyes kind of echoed

Yesterday, as I covered at Search Engine Land, Google said at SMX East on stage that the Google Panda 4.2 update that began rolling out around July 18th of this year is indeed still rolling out.

Google announced yesterday at SMX East, as I broke at Search Engine Land yesterday, a new ranking factor (benefit) for those who deploy mobile apps but use the new App Indexing API...

John Mueller from Google announced on the Google Webmaster blog that Google has made the first big change to the first click free program since 2009.

Now, instead of allowing 5 articles for free, Google is dropping that to only 3 articles for free...

A few years ago, I wrote the following about post about Google’s OneBox Patent Application I was brought back to it, with a new Google patent that looks at answering questions within similar answer boxes, and showing rich content, like in the...