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Newly Launched Google Instant: Is it Good or Bad for SEO?

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:09:13 +0000

Google Instant, the latest offering from Google, has created quite a buzz, as expected. Google Instant predicts search queries and instantly shows results as the user types.

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Newly Launched Google Instant: Is it Good or Bad for SEO?

It’s Official- Bing Now Powers Yahoo!’s Search Results!

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:50:11 +0000

Yahoo! had started the transfer of the back – end technology of its search to the Microsoft Platform, in the US and Canada, last week. “Keep an eye out for the “Powered by Bing” indicator at the bottom of our search results page, which will indicate that you are viewing listings from Microsoft.” , said the official Yahoo! Blog

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AdMax Rolls-Out New Multi-Feature SEO Toolbar

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:57:13 +0000

AdMax has recently launched a SEO Toolbar , that comprises of the popular SEO tools, put together on a single browser plugin. It also features mobile keyword rankings and mobile link building tools.

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It’s Official Now!: One Domain To Dominate A Single Page On Google’s Search Results

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:34:44 +0000

Yet another change on Google, and this time Google has tweaked its ranking algorithm so to allow, a large number of results from a single site on a single page. According to Google, this improvement is essentially for users to find better and deeper results from a single site

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It’s Official Now!: One Domain To Dominate A Single Page On Google’s Search Results

Eye Tracking Research Update: SES San Francisco 2010, Day 3

admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:04:36 +0000

The first session on Day 3, that we covered was on “Eye Tracking Research Update”.

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Eye Tracking Research Update: SES San Francisco 2010, Day 3

Are Watermarked Images Useful?

admin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:48:21 +0000

Maile Ohye, the Developer Programs Tech Lead is talking about the pros and cons of watermarked images in the

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Are Watermarked Images Useful?

Google Image Swirl Making Similar Images Exploration More Refined

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:01:17 +0000

Google has released Google Image Swirl , a similar images explorer that is using the wonder wheel flash visualization from web search results. Here's an example of working of Google Image Swirl. Suppose you enter query like “lion”.

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Google Image Swirl Making Similar Images Exploration More Refined

Similar Images Moves Further from Google Labs

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:32:47 +0000

Google has announced in its recent official blog that Similar Images feature will now be graduating from Google Labs to become a permanent feature in the Google Images. You can now click on “Find similar images” below the popular image result to get the result

Google Makes Searching More Refined by Adding New Search Options

admin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:12:25 +0000

It was a year ago when Google started adding search options to SERPs in order to give more refined results by time or to change the trend of how results were displayed on the SERP. In May 2009, the Search Options became official and features like image, video etc were added for further refinement. Google has moved a step further by introducing more options with the search results.

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Bing Gives Image Optimization Tips!

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:38:31 +0000

Todd Schwartz on Bing's Blog is giving some tips on optimizing the photos and graphics for image search. He is talking about optimization techniques recommended by the Bing's top image developer.

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Bing Gives Image Optimization Tips!