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Hey Search Engine Land readers — you get search. You know how important it is. That’s why you’re here. That’s why many of you also come out to our SMX conferences that we organize, to keep up with search. But we also know you deal with folks who don’t live, breathe or love search the way you do. We’re here to help with that.

Our SMX East conference comes to New York City at the end of this month, September 30 to October 2. We’ve got a great agenda with over 50 sessions of interest to any...

For the readers here, this is probably very obvious, but @Marie_Haynes tells me, that it is not so obvious and it is "an issue many people argue about." You cannot recover from a Penguin penalty (algorithm) if Google did not run the algorithm again.
The only way to recover from an algorithmic issue is for the algorithm to run again

At Google and Bing, both search engines have been experimenting with relevance and search. Both have shown profile photographs of people whom you may be connected to at places such as Google+ (for Google) and at Facebook (For Bing) in search results...

We all know that Google tells us to serve a 503 error code when your server and web site is having temporary issues. Like a period of time where the server is getting way too much traffic for it to handle...

In earlier days at Google, when you used to ask a question, you could sometimes get a response providing answers to questions such as: “When was George W. Bush’s birth-date?”. We knew that Google could answer some questions like that, even if it...

Google announced a new AdWords extension named callout extensions.

Callout extensions let you add additional text that shows with your Google search ads, highlighting specific information about your products and services...

The New Scientist reports that Google is building a version of the knowledge graph that expands its knowledge through algorithms at mass scale - Google calls it the Knowledge Vault...

Not everything we read in a paper or in a patent from a search engine is something that happens in real life; but sometimes it is. I like coming across a patent now and then that is dated but does a good job of describing something that happened as...

I’ve done quite a bit of writing here on architecture and design (see this, for example), so I really enjoyed Melissa Mandelbaum ‘s Applying Architecture to Product Design: Lesson 1 – Circulation:

As an architect, I learned circulation systems including stairs, hallways and elevators are very important in helping people navigate buildings. Similarly, as a product designer, I’ve learned circulation systems such as list menus and tabs are necessary for helping people navigate products....