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Google's Gary Illyes confirmed on Twitter last night that the Penguin update is still not at a point of being released where you cannot take the steps necessary to cleanse your links...

Bloomberg reported yesterday about a new method Google uses to interpret a "very large fraction" of the search queries they see every day. The new method is called "RankBrain" and has already been live in Google for months now...

Move over Google search algorithm, hand-crafted by hard-working Google engineers. RankBrain has moved in, a machine-learning artificial intelligence that Google’s been using to process 15% of search results per day.

Bloomberg has the scoop, a long interview with Greg Corrado, a senior research scientist at Google involved with RankBrain.

It’s not really a complete replacement of the Google search algorithm — also known as Hummingbird — however. The algorithm is the system that...

I believe that the Google Search Console would not show you the older messages in the Google Search Console, if you just recently verified the site...

Google's Gary Illyes said on Twitter, in response to my reports of the Google Halloween Zombie update that Google does not confirm core ranking algorithm updates and this may have been one of those...

Ted Geisel, who wrote under the name Dr. Seuss, Authoritative for Green Eggs and Ham?

An authoritative user is a user of one or more computer-implemented services (e.g., a social networking service) that has been determined to be authoritative...

On Tuesday, I covered signs up an upcoming update touching down that morning, as well as some Panda signals hitting around October 14th.

Well, the chatter in the community over the past few days, starting around October 20th throughout October 21st and this morning...

Danny Sullivan put it well in his Yahoo & Google Together Again In New Search Deal. This month, Yahoo said they reached an agreement with Google to have Yahoo Search powered, in part, by Google search and Google ads...

Duane Forrester, referred to as the face of Microsoft's search engine, Bing and the Webmaster community, announced on his blog that he is leaving Bing.

He was not fired like he was back in October 2014, when Microsoft had mass layoffs and he was on the chopping block...

Reunited, and it feels so good. Well, we’ll see if that line from the classic song plays out for Yahoo, which has revealed it wants to be together with Google again in a deal for search results. The deal excludes Europe and India, almost certainly to avoid anti-trust issues there. It also will depend on US Department of Justice approval. The Deal, In Summary

As part of today’s Yahoo earning news, it revealed a new search deal with Google:

In October, the Company reached an agreement...