White Ribbon On Google’s Homepage Helps Raise Awareness For UN’s Campaign To End Violence Against Women

Today’s white ribbon on Google’s homepage is in support of the United Nation’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The ribbon image links to the www.UNWomen.org End Violence Against Women webpage, offering visitors a brief overview of the…

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Search In Pics: Duck Duck Go Flags, GoTo.com Swag & Google’s Winter Wonderlab

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Google’s Winter Wonderlab: Source: Google+ Glowing Google Book:…

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Testing, Testing, Testing: A Recap Of Google’s Latest Search Tests

Google is known to run hundreds of experiments a year and often we pick up on some of those experiments and report back on them over here. Many of those experiments have to do with the user interface and how Google makes small tweaks to the layout, design, fonts and colors to see what type […]

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Court Finds Google’s Book Scanning Is Fair Use: Highlights From The Ruling

Nearly ten years after it began and eight years after Google was sued over it, Google’s program that scans books in order to make them searchable has been found legal. A judge found fair use, especially in that “Google Books does not supersede or supplant books because it is not a tool…

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Google’s Matt Cutts: When Commenting On Blog Posts, Try To Use Your Real Name

In a recent video published by Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts talks about are blog comments with links spam? In short, most of the time, commenting and leaving links to your site or resources is not directly spam but like anything, it can be abused. Matt offers some tips on how to…

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Search In Pics: Google Monorail, Android Land & Google’s Patio

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Google Monorail: Source: Google+ AndroidLand Grand Opening In India:…

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“100% Not Provided Is Not The End Of SEO” Insider Opinions On Google’s Move To Withhold Data

Earlier this week, Google revealed it would be encrypting all search data, rendering website owners unable to see search term information previously offered through the “referrer” system. While Google had encrypted the data two years ago for searches performed by users signed in to…

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For Google’s 15th Birthday, Search “Google In 1998″ For A Flashback

Google turns 15 this week — celebrating its official birthday on Friday. But it already is gearing up for the celebrations with a special easter egg. Search for “google in 1998,” and you’ll see how Google used to look back then, in the year of its birth. The head of…

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Google’s Matt Cutts: Google Does Not Penalize For Broken HTML

In a video published today by Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts – Google confirmed that they do not penalize sites that have broken or invalid HTML. Matt Cutts said, “so Google does not penalize you if you have invalid HTML, because there would be a huge number of web pages…

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Two Years Later, BitTorrent Back In Google’s Auto Completions After Piracy Removal

Over two years ago, Google removed BitTorrent from the instant search auto-complete search suggestions. Now, it appears that when you begin typing [bit...] into the Google search box, Google now shows BitTorrent as a search suggestion within Google Instant search. Here is a screen shot of the…

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