Google Shopping Visibility Plunges In “Universal Search” Results; Video Stays Dominant

Findings from a new study show the visibility of Google Shopping in Google’s “Universal Search” results dropped significantly after the search engine implemented a new paid inclusion model. Video content also dropped but still remained by far the most dominant source mixed with web page listings.

Source:http://searchengineland.com/google-shopping-video-universal-search-153376

The Big List Of Google Easter Eggs

Google is well-known for its lighter side, including things like whimsical logos, april fools’ gags and more. In the spirit of the Easter holiday, here’s a big list of “easter eggs” that Google engineers have hidden for enterprising searchers who take the time to hunt them down.

Source:http://searchengineland.com/the-big-list-of-google-easter-eggs-153768

Google’s April Fools’ Day 2013 Joke-A-Thon: YouTube Shutdown, Google Nose & More

April Fool’s Day is pretty much like a national … err, international holiday for everyone that works for Google.

It seems that nobody else on the web takes the tradition of pranks and jokes as seriously as Google does — just see our coverage from the last few April Fool’s Days for proof:

Source: http://searchengineland.com/google-april-fools-day-2013-153983

Google Alerts: Still Broken

Last month, I wrote my Dear Google Alerts: Why Aren’t You Working? story. Soon after, Google told me things were improved. That’s not been the case for me; and now, another open letter about how poorly the service is working has appeared.

Source:http://searchengineland.com/google-alerts-still-broken-152444

Bing Snapshots Grow To Understand People, Places & Things With “Satori” Expansion

Over the past year, Bing’s been steadily growing the “Snapshots” it shows on the right-hand side of its pages. Now, Bing says those are taking another leap to better understand relationships between people, places and things, using an expansion of what it calls its “Satori” technology.

Source:http://searchengineland.com/bing-snapshots-people-places-things-satori-152460

New PPC Report: Bing Ads Vs. Google AdWords In 6 US Verticals

AdGooroo has released a new study titled Yahoo! Bing PPC Performance Metrics that analyzes advertiser participation and performance metrics on the Yahoo! Bing network through Bing Ads compared to Google AdWords. The study looked at U.S. advertisers in six verticals during Q312.

Source:http://searchengineland.com/new-ppc-report-bing-ads-vs-adwords-in-6-us-verticals-152229

The Short Cutts: Matt Cutts SEO Videos With Quick Questions & Answers

Google has published over 500 videos on theWebmaster Help YouTube Channel, most of those videos features Matt Cutts answering quick SEO related questions.

Source:http://searchengineland.com/the-short-cutts-matt-cutts-seo-videos-with-quick-questions-answers-152345

New: Find Animated GIFs In Google Image Search, Images With Transparent Backgrounds

Animated GIFs have been making a comeback, particularly since Google+ gave them support when it launched, not to mention Tumblr. So, no surprise, Google’s now pushing a new way to find GIFs within Google Image Search.

Source:http://searchengineland.com/google-image-search-may-add-option-to-filter-by-animated-gifs-152096

Google Flight Search Takes Off Around The Globe

Google’s flight search tool had been limited to a few markets in the US. As such, it was of limited value. But last week, the company expanded flight searchinternationally to include 500 airports outside the US.

Source:http://searchengineland.com/google-flight-search-takes-off-around-the-globe-152126

Is Bing Testing “Subjectship” Rather Than Authorship In Its Search Results?

Some are spotting new author images appearing in Bing’s search results today, similar to the way Google shows author images. Except, they’re not really author images. They’re what I’d call subject images, something that might be coming more formally to Bing.

Source:http://searchengineland.com/is-bing-testing-subjectship-rather-than-authorship-in-its-search-results-152224

Google Panda Update 25 Seems To Have Hit

There are many webmasters and SEOs believing right now that Google has released an update to their Panda algorithm late yesterday.

Source:http://searchengineland.com/google-panda-update-25-seems-to-have-hit-151732

Bing Webmaster Tools Adds Site Move Tool

Bing announced a new feature for Bing Webmaster Tools – the ability to inform Bing of a site move.

Source:http://searchengineland.com/bing-webmaster-tools-adds-site-move-tool-151951

Google Penalized One Article On BBC’s Web Site

Google did end commenting on why the BBC received an unnatural link notification despite offering us a “no comment” on our story this past Friday.

Source:http://searchengineland.com/google-penalized-one-article-on-bbcs-web-site-151954

Microsoft’s ViralSearch: Search Engine For Measuring Tweets & Viral Content

VentureBeat reports Microsoft announced a new research project named ViralSearch.

ViralSearch lets you search and navigate cascades of people passing content on social media and distinguish between things that are not just popular but also became viral in a sense that they are being passed from one person to the next over many generations.

Source:http://searchengineland.com/microsofts-viralsearch-search-engine-for-measuring-tweets-viral-content-150703

Twitter Improves Mobile Search: Top Tweets, Autocomplete & Web Browser

Twitter announced search upgrades to the Twitter mobile app. The upgrades includes an improved relevancy engine for top tweets, improved auto-completion for search and an easier web browser for results.

Source:http://searchengineland.com/twitter-improves-mobile-search-top-tweets-autocomplete-web-browser-150717

Google’s Cutts: We Don’t Ban Sites Critical Of Google, But Here Is Why We Do Penalize Sites…

In the latest video from Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, he addresses Google’s standards for manually removing spam from the Google index.

Source:http://searchengineland.com/googles-cutts-we-dont-ban-sites-critical-of-google-but-here-is-why-we-do-penalize-sites-150549

Google Maps App For iPhone Upgrade Adds Local Icons, Google Contacts & More Countries

Google announced an upgrade to the Google Maps for iPhone app that was originally released in December 2012.

Source:http://searchengineland.com/google-maps-app-for-iphone-upgrade-adds-local-icons-google-contacts-more-countries-150568

Web Spam Archive Tool Saves Google’s Live Spam For More Than Just Recent Results

One of the more interesting aspects of Google’s recently released “How Search Works” interactive infographic were the live examples of spam that were recently removed. The features allows users to see live spam that was recently removed (once they clicked through the disclaimer that offensive material may be included.)

Source:http://searchengineland.com/web-spam-archive-tool-saves-googles-live-spam-for-more-than-just-recent-results-150647

Google Charts “Manual Actions” Against Spam In Search For First Time

How often does Google take “manual action” against websites for spam, where a human being reviews a site and decides it deserves some type of penalty? For the first time, Google’s released a chart showing this, going back nearly 10 years.

Source:http://searchengineland.com/google-charts-manual-actions-against-spam-150186

Google Gutted Its Search Quality Rating Guidelines For Public Release

As part of today’s big “How Search Works” reveal, Google also took the big step of sharing its Search Quality Rating Guidelines for the first time.

Source:http://searchengineland.com/google-gutted-its-search-quality-rating-guidelines-for-public-release-150281

Interflora Gets Its Google Rankings Back, 11 Days After Penalty

Interflora, the major UK flower delivery service, is showing up again in Google’s search results — just 11 days after it was penalized.

Source:http://searchengineland.com/interflora-gets-google-rankings-back-150366