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Recently I wrote about Google’s Enriched Results Patent, where Google looked at query terms searched for, and for some of them the search engine returned special “enriched” search results that showed off things such as financial information when the...

Want to search for something using popular emoji characters? Microsoft’s Bing search engine now supports this.

Bing announced the news in a post today, sharing some examples of why you might want to do this. For one, perhaps you want to know what exactly a particular emoji means. Enter that into the search box, and Bing will tell you:



More interesting is that you can combine emoji with words. Don’t want to type out “donut?” Use that character along with others to find the best local...

Remember we reported that during all the Penguin and Panda madness, Google said they will be pushing out a DMCA Algorithm update...

Google announced they made a change to their Webmaster Guidelines specifically telling webmasters, what they've been saying for years, but more strongly the past few months. Do not block us from crawling your CSS or JavaScript!
Google's Pierre Far wrote, "Disallowing crawling of Javascript or CSS files in your siteâs robots.txt directly harms how well our algorithms render and index your content and can result in suboptimal rankings."

Google was granted a patent last week that looks like it might have been among one of the earliest patents filed by the company. It involves showing television programs (News Programs to be more exact), and showing web pages that might be relevant...

I recently revisited a web site that I worked on almost a decade ago, and one of my favorite pages on the site no longer exists, but its spirit and inspiration remains. The site was Baltimore.org, at the time for the Baltimore Area Convention and...

My latest column for A List Apart is called How to Do What You Love, the Right Way, and it’s out today. It’s a response to that mantra we hear so often, and loosely based on a rant by Merlin Mann on one of his Back to Work podcasts. Here’s the gist:

Doing what you love doesn’t necessarily mean quitting your job and starting a coffee shop. Most often, it means building your own platform, and crafting your own work, one step at a time.

Google launched Penguin 3.0 late Friday night and we have a lot more detail on it now, including that it should be rolling out for the next few weeks now.
It seems that some savvy SEOs are noticing an uptick in ranking changes yesterday...