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Last night, Google's John Mueller was tasked to announce on his personal Google+ account that Google has dropped support for authorship, completely.

Yes, completely. They simply removed it from their search results interface and from behind the scenes...

I know, the boy who cried wolf, but my job here is to bring to you what the SEO community is buzzing about and they are buzzing about a possible Google Penguin update, or at least Google testing things that may imply Google is pushing out a Penguin update.
Didn't I expect Penguin to be launched...

The title from a Google patent reached out and grabbed me as I was skimming through Google’s patents. It has the kind of title that captures your attention, as a weapon in the war that Google wages against people who might try to spam the search...

@rgomezric spotted a new Bing user interface test, where they moved the navigation bar below the search box.
Bing is testing three different flavors of this test and @rgomezric captured all of them.

Yahoo is testing a new design for their search results page. The new design is drastically different, making the layout much more boxed in, more like a card look...

As usual, Frank Chimero manages to capture what a lot of people in our neck of the woods are thinking in From the Porch to the Street. It’s an interesting, considered lament about how Twitter has changed, but it’s this part in particular that caught my attention:

Have you heard of evaporative social cooling? It says the people who provide the most value to a social group or organization eventually burn out and leave, undermining the stability and progress of the group. Most of my...

As you know, Google is giving a tiny ranking boost to HTTPS URLs.
But I was under the impression the HTTPS URLs must be really secure and that broken/invalid SSL certificates and content mismatch errors would invalidate the ranking boost. I was wrong!

Truth is, this is nothing new, people have been impersonating Matt Cutts since the GoogleGuy days. I've seen many comments here from "Matt Cutts" that were indeed not from Matt Cutts, I've seen people claim Matt emailed them when he did not...

The World Wide Web is a vast resource for information. At the same time it is extremely distributed. A particular type of data such as restaurant lists may be scattered across thousands of independent information sources in many different formats....