The Google Block…nuk, nuk, nuk

Recently, Google added the ability to block sites from your personalized search results. This allows you remove a site from your future related searches when you encounter a site that you don’t like or is spammy. How it works: After you have signed in to your Google account: The option to block a site appears […]

Panda Spanks eHow

When the Panda update rolled out in the US a scant number of weeks ago, many expected to see the popular eHow site from Demand Media to be hit hard as the industry regards it as a “content farm.” Oddly enough, eHow actually managed to gain traffic after the update leaving many groups and individuals […]

Return of the Panda

There appears to be speculation that there is another Google Update underway. Several reports from webmasters in a Webmaster World thread have stated that they are seeing some significant changes in the Google SERPs. Often in isolated reports like this, it is usually the result of specific tests being run on isolated data centers. However, […]

Bing Pulls Ahead of Yahoo

It looks as though Bing is finally starting to crawl up the search engine usage ladder. For the first time, Bing has outranked Yahoo in the global search engine market. StatCounter Global Stats finds that globally, Bing has attained a 4.37% share of the global market in February, ahead of Yahoo! at 3.93%. Both engines […]

Google adjusts JCPenny.com SERPs after complaints

JCPenny had some impressive holiday revenue this year due to some usually good results on the search engines. The results were in fact a bit too impressive and lead some researchers to question why JCPenny.com should be the #1 ranked site for something like Samsonite Luggage, above the well established manufacturer, Samsonite.com. As it turns […]