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Yahoo has confirmed with me that they are testing other search providers to power Yahoo Search, instead of their search partner Bing.

Specifically, they are testing Google powered Yahoo Search results...

The other day I covered the spammy structured markup manual action and asked does it result in a ranking decline. I didn't think so...

Bing announced big news for them, that they took the AOL search partnership deal away from Google and will start powering AOL Search starting on January 1, 2016.

This is a 10 year deal...

At AOL Search, Google is out, Bing is in. Microsoft and AOL have signed a new 10-year agreement for Bing to provide search listings and ads to AOL as of January 1, 2016.

When Google first won the AOL deal back in 2002, it was a huge deal for that company. Google was still up-and-coming; AOL had substantial search traffic. Google managed to renew the deal every time it came up since, such as in 2010. But no more.

That’s no great loss for Google, however. AOL has only about 1% of the...

Google tested red slow labels in the mobile search results back in February. This month Google began testing another form of this label that reads "slow to load."

The slow to load labels are not red, but rather look like yellow hazard signs...

So, one of the big questions in SEO these days is why some queries end up triggering Answer Boxes in search results, and others don’t.

A Recent Bloomberg article explores how Google might use machine learning to answer questions, titled,...

A little over three weeks ago, Google's Gary Illyes said on stage at SMX Advanced that the Panda data refresh is coming soon. He said, somewhere around 2, 3, or 4 weeks...

A couple of weeks ago I did a talk on Enterprise UX at UX Burlington. You can now read a written version of the talk on A List Apart. From Unsuck the Enterprise:

So if you’re someone who works in enterprise software, come a bit closer—I need to tell you something…

I know the work can be difficult. I know there are an infinite number of factors involved in getting product live, and sometimes what gets launched isn’t what you had in mind. I know there are sleepless nights about...

Joe Hall asked on Twitter a question many SEOs are wondering, what triggers Google to conduct a manual review of a web site for a manual action penalty...