Blekko has been on a crusade to destroy spam. This started at the inception of the company, where the human curation of “slashtags” allowed pre-screened results and tossed a number of results into a “spam” category. However, human curation isn’t the only element of Blekko’s strategy

Google announced a new search feature today — the ability to block sites you don’t want to see in your results.

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Chrome is on one of the fastest release cycles around (six weeks), so it’s not particularly riveting news that we’ve made it to Chrome the 10.0.x version set. However, there are a few features of particular note with the Chrome browser, including several major security updates.

Chrome is on one of the fastest release cycles around (six weeks), so it’s not particularly riveting news that we’ve made it to Chrome the 10.0.x version set. However, there are a few features of particular note with the Chrome browser, including several major security updates. These updates address potential Flash security issues and the vulnerability of plugins.

Google’s latest algorithm has come to be known as the “farmer update,” but inside Google it’s known as “Panda.” Unlike many pandas, who are lazy and mostly just intent on eating bamboo, this Google creation is feisty and out for blood – demoting sites it deems to be “low-quality” left and right. However, when you’re using a term such as quality, a number of subjective factors come into play; it’s difficult to know how to avoid being “low quality” since Google won’t tell us the details of what it means.

Following the DroidDream Android malware scare , Google announced that they had removed the malicious applications from the Android Market, suspended the developer accounts, and contacted law enforcement, in addition to using its remote application removal feature (Android’s so-called “kill switch”) on affected phones. The Android Market security update they pushed out, however, has shown up with suspicious code in a repackaged version on an unregulated third-party Chinese marketplace, CNET reported.

Below is live coverage of the Credit Where Credit Is Due: Demystifying Attribution panel from the SMX West 2011 conference. This coverage is provided by Marty Weintraub of aimClear Blog. Disclaimer: The coverage is brought to you in real time…

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has programmed a forum and track at SES New York 2011 . The IAB is comprised of more than 500 leading media and technology companies who are responsible for selling 86 percent of online advertising in the United States. Click to read the rest of this post…

Most all SEOs know that Google’s search spider, GoogleBot, crawls from Mountain View, California. So when a webmaster asked in a Google Webmaster Help thread why GoogleBot is crawling from China as opposed to from California, some Googlers began scratching their heads