Often many of us, including myself, take what Google offers us for granted. It is free to us, in exchange for clicks on ads, them gathering our search history and much more. But it is free and a service 10 years ago…

A Google Maps Help reports another Google Maps bug, this time with uploading photos. In the screen shot below, you can see a blue upload photos button. Well…

Wasn’t the whole point of the scraper algorithm and the continued Panda updates about making sure quality original sourced content ranks in Google and now stolen/scraped content? It seems like recently Google is back to where they started from prior to February 2011

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: A Year Later, Google’s Block Sites Feature Remains Blocked In 2011, Google rolled out a feature allowing searchers to block web sites they don’t like..

At a point, I really do feel bad for continually reporting Google updates but the Google search results over the past couple weeks have not been all that stable – which I guess is what Google talks about when they say 500 updates per year…

Yesterday Yandex launched Wonder, a search app that combines social network search to provide information on things you might like. Three hours after Wonder was launched, Facebook reportedly pulled search access for the app from its social network.

In 2011, Google rolled out a feature allowing searchers to block web sites they don’t like from appearing in its search results, which drew great attention. That got dropped last year, when Search Plus Your World was launched last January. A year later, Google says there are no firm plans for…

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Google+ On Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Source: Google+ Yahoo China:…