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Court Dismisses PA Advisors, LLC v. Google and Yahoo Patent Case

Posted on September 20, 2012 Written by Bill Hartzer

The case PA Advisors, LLC v. Google, Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. involved a dispute over patented technology related to search engine algorithms and advertising systems. PA Advisors, LLC alleged that Google and Yahoo had infringed upon U.S. Patent No. 6,199,067, which covered a method for generating personalized user profiles to improve internet search results. The plaintiff claimed that the defendants’ search and advertising technologies violated its patent, potentially impacting areas such as search engine optimization, contextual advertising, and personalized search functionalities. [Read more…]

Google Webmaster Tools Now Emailing Website Owners Directly

Posted on September 12, 2012 Written by Bill Hartzer

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 receive the messages. [Read more…]

Google Underlining Typos in Search Query Field

Posted on January 12, 2012 Written by Bill Hartzer

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 Google will underline it in red, giving you a chance to correct it. [Read more…]

Google Sidewiki Closing – How to Export Your Entries

Posted on November 2, 2011 Written by Bill Hartzer

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 to export all of our entries. [Read more…]

Search Engines Not Doing Enough to Stop Hackers

Posted on August 16, 2011 Written by Bill Hartzer

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 search engines are indexing too much information on the internet–and as such, they are not doing enough to stop hackers. They are helping them. [Read more…]

Google Search Quality Still Lacking After Google Farmer Update

Posted on March 15, 2011 Written by Bill Hartzer

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“. [Read more…]

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