Googlers Mike LeBeau, who is in charge of search within Glass and Amanda Rosenberg, the product manager of Glass…

Posted by Matt Peters Today’s web search engines have sophisticated ways of measuring whether a web page is related to a given query, based on decades of research in Information Retrieval. Come join me as I explore the inner workings of a search engine’s relevance engine and explain what it means for SEOs. Determining Relevance When a user submits a query to a search engine, the first thing it must do is determine which pages in the index are related to the query and which are not

Google announced yesterday on Google+ a new Google+ Dashboard for businesses that manage their Google+ local page on Google+.

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, announced at SMX Advanced a new beta application is testing within Google Webmaster Tools named the Structured Data Dashboard. The new dashboard will show webmasters more errors and reporting based on their schema, rich snippet and structured data… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

We’re here live at SMX Advanced in Seattle where Matt Cutts is on stage being interviewed. Matt Cutts said that Google Webmaster Penalty emails will start to Include Examples of Bad Links in them.  Cutts stated “One thing that’s new is we’re testing the inclusion of example URLs — when we send a manual action Author information John Rampton Managing Editor John Rampton is an entrepreneur, full-time computer nerd, PPC guru at Maple North and founder at PPC.org

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, announced at SMX Advanced that Google is likely going to roll out a version of the site speed ranking factor for mobile sites. Back in 2010, Google said site speed is a ranking factor.

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, announced at SMX Advanced that starting in the next day or so, Google Webmaster Tools notifications will now include example URLs of problem areas.

We’ve covered the DuckDuckGo vs Google war in the past…  We know it’s not the closest race in the world but DuckDuckGo released some impressive new stats today that they have passed 2 Million searches in one day! It’s not compared to the billions daily that Google, Bing or Facebook have but it’s a really good start. Author information John Rampton Managing Editor John Rampton is an entrepreneur, full-time computer nerd, PPC guru at Maple North and founder at PPC.org . Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn The post DuckDuckGo vs Google (Impressive New Stats) by @johnrampton appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Bing Maps announced a number of new additions today, including a more expansive collection of Bird’s Eye Imagery locations, new Venue Maps and a Report a Problem feature.