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Well it’s not a crown Prince Charles is wearing but it could be the Google equivalent of it. Google Glass has opened up market within the UK this week through the “Glass Explorer Program”. Lucky ladies and gents over the age of 18 have the opportunity to wear the unit for a measly £ 1,000. […]
In yet another international ruling, Google has been ordered to remove a website from its global search results. Today, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Lauri Ann Fenlon ruled that Google has 14 days to remove a company by the name of Datalink from its global search results. Datalink is the rival of technology company Equustek, who […]
In the latest Google Webmasters video, Google’s Matt Cutts addresses the question “How can content be ranked if there aren’t any links pointing to it?” Matt goes on to talk about how Google looks at the content of pages that don’t have any external links pointing to them; taking into consideration the frequency of keywords […]
On Monday via Twitter, Matt Cutts head of Google’s web spam team announced that the latest version of the Panda algorithm had been released. The Panda 4.0 update is said to target different languages, as well as, the usual attack on thin, spammy content. Many companies are claiming a jump in search query referrals and […]
The folks over at Search Engine Roundtable have reported that there’s been a lot of chatter on some of the webmaster forums as to a possible Google algorithm update. Although Google has yet to release any official word, the forums are a buzz with webmaster seeing shifts in search traffic and ranking positions. There have […]
In the wake of controversy over tracking and data privacy concerns launched at some of the major search engine players, underdog search engine DuckDuckGo has come out with a beta version of their new design interface. The new design includes contextual features such as images, videos, a knowledge graph-esque information box, instant answers and more. […]
In the latest video published on Google’s Webmaster Help channel, Matt Cutts (head of Google’s Webspam team) weighs in whether backlinks will lose their importance as a ranking metric in the near future. The answer? Ideally, overtime, yes. While Mr. Cutts states that links still have many years left in them, Google has made no […]
Google’s Continuing Smack Down Google laid the smack down on 7 Japanese Link Networks recently. The Google technique of slowly shutting down blog networks must be having others around the world in a cold sweat. Is this like the horrid way pet felines like to play with their prey by slowly poking out the eye […]
The Heartbleed Bug is a serious SSL/TLS encryption vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. So what is it? Seems like we’ve heard this all before? To put it into layman’s terms, Heartbleed or CVE-2014-0160, depending on your pedantic nature, is a really bad thing. In less simple terms, the ‘heartbeat’ service of OpenSSL […]