Google SafeSearch For Schools Now Supports HTTPS

Google’s Brian Fitzpatrick, Engineering Director, announced on the Google Security Blog that the Google SafeSearch feature that network administrators can force over their networks now supports HTTPS. That means if the network administrators upgrade to the new protocol, all searches over…

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Google: More First Page URLs In Search Results Are HTTPS Relative To The URLs On The Web

At Search Marketing Expo East, Google’s Gary Illyes presented on an HTTPS panel and shared some very interesting data and history on Google’s HTTPS ranking signal. Page One Search Results More Likely To Contain HTTPS Urls Gary explained that while only 10% of the crawled and discovered…

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SearchCap: Bing Lyrics, Google HTTPS Stats & SEMPO Code Of Ethics

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Starts Showing Full Song Lyrics Right In Search Results While SEOs debate Google’s recent addition of structured data in its search results, Bing is making a…

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Bing: No Plans To Give Ranking Boost For HTTPS

At Search Marketing Expo, Bing’s Vincent Wehren, the Lead Program Manager for Bing Webmaster Tools, said they have no plans on ever giving a ranking boost to websites that switch to HTTPS. In August, Google began giving sites that use HTTPS a ranking boost as a bit of an incentive to…

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SearchCap: Google Penguin Coming Soon, Bing No To HTTPS Boost & Nude Celeb Photos Sue Google

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google: Penguin Refresh May Come As Early As Next Week Google’s Gary Illyes, Webmaster Trends Analyst and Search Quality Engineer, said at Search Marketing Expo…

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SearchCap: Google HTTPS Study, Consolidated AdWords Billing & Google Quick Answer Failure

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Quick Answer Fail: NSFW Advice On “How To Eat Sushi” Google continues to expand the number of quick answers it offers in its results, as well…

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SearchCap: Microsoft Catapult, Google HTTPS Factors & Bing Conversational Search

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: BrightLocal Opens Its 2014 Local SEO Industry Survey Local SEO firm BrightLocal has posted its third annual local SEO industry survey, asking SEO professionals to…

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SearchCap: Google HTTPS Algorithm, Bing Tech & Google Management Book

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Starts Giving A Ranking Boost To Secure HTTPS/SSL Sites Google To Give Secure Sites A Ranking Boost Google has announced that going HTTPS — adding a…

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