Search Engine News

New Google Keyboard Navigation

Tweet @jaamit pointed out this morning on Twitter that the top result in Google now has a little blue arrow to the left of it. A little digging (and luck) highlighted the fact that the span of the arrow was ‘knavm’ and by chance I guessed at ‘Keyboard Navigation Marker’, and proceeded to press up [...]

Post Google Instant Apocalypse Fallout

Tweet So we are at ‘The End of SEO’ +7, and the dust is beginning to settle from the bomb that Google dropped last week -Google Instant. Various industry peers have proclaimed many differing thoughts such as ‘The End of SEO’, ‘The Death of The Long Tail’ and ‘Google Instant Will Kill The SEO Industry’. [...]

Google Launching Live Search?

Tweet Another day, and another homepage animation from Google, this time instead of balls that fly off when you hover around them (that according to Google is ‘fun and interactive as search should be’) we are presented with a greyed out Google logo, that colors in when you being typing your search query, in much [...]

Site Speed A Ranking Factor! – What Really!?!

Tweet So Matt Cutts has now said that site speed is an official ranking factor in the Google algorithm. What really? Only now? No. Site speed has been a factor of SEO for a long time, and any good optimiser will know that already. The change now is that the raw speed data will be [...]

Bing Looking to 'Buy' Market Share?

Tweet Microsoft’s Bing search engine is soon to be getting more traffic due to an agreement with Motorola to make it the primary search engine on its handsets distributed in China, as highlighted in a press release: Motorola, Inc. today announced a global alliance with Microsoft Corp.  to deploy Bing services on Motorola devices powered [...]