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Jennifer Slegg got her hands on the latest version of the Search Quality Raters handbook and published an incredibly detailed summary of what is new in the guidelines. Of course, for legal reasons...

Facebook has long opened up some of its walled garden to Google, in order to gain Google traffic. Now Facebook is stepping up its search engine optimization game by implementing Google App Indexing to ensure it continues to get that traffic as the shift to mobile continues. Facebook Loves Google Traffic

Facebook has allowed Google to index some of its content going back to at least 2007, when Facebook profile pages were opened up to Google and other search engines. “Indexing” means that...

As many of you know, many are waiting patiently on Google's next Penguin release. We know it is still not ready for prime time and we hope that when it is, it will be the real time version.

But if it is not ready, Google will not release it, even by the end of the year...

Bing has finally released their own version of a mobile friendly testing tool at this URL. It works pretty much like the Google mobile friendly test tool, which Google released just about a year ago...

Google is now sending out new Google Search Console messages for SSL/TLS certificate does not include domain name...

I just published my first article on UX Booth. For The Next Step for 3D Touch I did some digging on where we might be headed with the 3D Touch feature in the new iPhones. I got particularly fixated on the idea of reducing an app’s UI to only the icon on the home screen:

So what would happen if 3D Touch became an app’s main UI? What could happen if we created apps solely comprised of shortcut actions and dynamic actions—and nothing else?

Read on for more…

Google announced major news yesterday by open sourcing TensorFlow, Google's very own machine learning system. Matt Cutts of Google said it was probably the biggest announcement in technology news that day - he was right...

This is neat, now Google will show you how bad it is when you block specific content, assets or resources from GoogleBot in the Fetch and Render tool within the Google Search Console.

A Google patent was granted on October 20th, 2015 titled Producing a ranking for pages using distances in a Web-link graph. It presents some changes to Google’s original PageRank.

I wrote about the very first PageRank patent in my post The...