Archive for Google

New Google Algorithm to Detect and Fight Content Spam

Image via Wikipedia Head of Google’s Webspam team Matt Cutts announced last Friday the launch of a new algorithm that is intended to better detect and fight spam in Google’s search results. Google’s main objectives are those sites that copies content then republish them on another websites. Cutts said the change was approved last Thursday [...]

Say Goodbye to Google Real Estate Search

The search giant Google will no longer support properties or real estate listings uploaded to its site on Google Maps and they are taking it off the market on February 10, 2011. In part due to low usage, the proliferation of excellent property-search tools on real estate websites, and the infrastructure challenge posed by the [...]

What You Need To Know About Google Instant

Google released early this month a new feature called Google instant, a new technology from Google that allows faster results. The news got SEO’s talking about it. Though it will make search queries faster, not everyone became a fan of this new feature. Some, indeed, fear that it will kill SEO or worried about the [...]

Google Launches Government Request Tool for User Data

Google launched a new Government Requests tool to give people information about the requests for user data or content removal they receive from government agencies around the world. On the map, you will see the number of request they received between July 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009 and they plan to update it every [...]

Google Now Uses RSS/Atom Feeds to Discover New URLs

Google Webmaster Central has blogged that they are now using RSS/Atom to discover new URLs or webpages.  In short Google is now indexing and crawling not only contents found on websites and blogs but contents that are syndicated from them through RSS/Atom feeds. Whereas before, Google relies mainly on the links provided on website and [...]