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During the busiest holiday shopping season, Google was making ongoing updates to the Penguin algorithm. There is no disputing that, Google confirmed it.

But since the second week of December...

Shortly after Google released the Google Panda 4.1 update, I asked if this site was hit by the almighty Panda algorithm. It clearly looked like it was and I believe it was hit by Panda. Nothing has changed since. Not to this site, not to the content...

Almost a year ago, Search Engine Land published an article titled Google Search OneBox Answers Are Getting More Detailed.

Search Engine Land has been referring to question-answering type results as Direct Answers, since they don’t seem to...

Controversy has erupted this week when news emerged that the Steve Scalise, majority whip of US House of Representatives — the chamber’s third highest post — spoke to a white supremacist group in 2002. Part of Scalise’s excuse? Google wasn’t available to research groups in 2002.

From what Scalise told the New Orleans Times Picayune yesterday:

There is a lot more vetting that goes into setting my appointments. I have a scheduler. I didn’t have a scheduler back then. I was without the...

Part One of this series – Direct Answers – Natural Language Search Results For Intent Queries

One of the most important parts of the “Natural Language Search Results for Intent Queries” patent application is how it describes both queries and...

There is a wonderful thread that is pretty deep right now, going on at WebmasterWorld talking about the 2014 trends in search, and what people expect to see in search in 2015 - mostly on the organic side...

In November, Google published an international patent that describes providing natural language type answers to queries.

Those answers focus less upon finding pages on the Web about those queries, and more on Natural Language results for the...

The Yahoo Directory, the core part of how Yahoo itself began in 1994, officially closed today, five days ahead of when Yahoo had said the end would come.

If you try to reach the Yahoo Directory at its long-standing address of http://dir.yahoo.com. you’ll now be redirected to a new location of https://business.yahoo.com/ with a home page carrying a “Yahoo Small Business” logo:



The new page still has the general look and feel of the old Yahoo Directory, listing categories that are not...

Google's John Mueller said in a Google+ hangout the other day that Google is working on some "fun stuff" around the search query reporting tool in Google Webmaster Tools.

John said this at 25 minutes and 55 seconds into the video...