Google Webmaster Tools has changed their policy, and is now going to start emailing web site owners directly if they detect critical or important issues with your web site. Before now, Google would only notify you about these issues via Google Webmaster Tools' interface--and you had to log in to ...

Google is always testing part of their interface, and I believe that this new test will most likely be one that sticks around. Google has started underlining typos in the search query field. So, when you start typing a keyword, if what you are typing is an obvious typo, then ...

Chalk this up on the list of another one of Google's products that failed. Well, I wouldn't call Google Sidewiki a total failure, but rather a Google product that just did not "catch on" with everyone. Google Sidewiki is being closed down, and Google is offering us all a chance ...

Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) , a leader in measuring the digital world, ...

The search engines, Google, Yahoo!, and Bing are great at helping us find information on the web. If you are like me, I personally perform a lot of search queries every day, finding new information and visiting new websites every day. That's why I use a search engine. However, the ...

We all have issues with our web sites at one time or another. Certainly when designing, programming, developing, and optimizing our web sites we try to make sure that we follow the industry's best practices. But that doesn't always happen, even if you are Google. I have uncovered a few ...

Barry over at Search Engine Roundtable wrote an interesting post about Google personalization and a little-known Google feature. There is a way to turn off the Google search results' personalization feature by appending "&pws=0" to the Google search results URL.   I recall removing personalization in the search results several ...

As you are probably aware, Google has been in the media spotlight lately about their search quality. And today, Huffington Post published a blog post titled "Content is Best Fresh, Not Farmed". Oh Really? Let's take a look at Google's search results for a popular news item that I wrote about yesterday, ...

For publishers all over the world, two main problems have often plagued the publishing world - how to get your content into the hands of those that want it, and how to profit from doing so. In the past, with print media the only business model that was available was ...

Do you want to own the trademark and domain name of a former search engine? Well, here is your chance. The trademark and domain name of Infoseek, a search engine originally founded in 1994 by Steve Kirsch and the first search engine to sell advertising on a CPM (Cost Per Thousand ...