Archive for January, 2014

Bug: Google’s Search Results Go Missing For Some Users

2014/01/11

There are dozens of complaints, maybe hundreds, of Microsoft PC users having issues seeing search results within Google. There are several..

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Dated Content Impacts Your Google Rankings?

2014/01/11

There is an interesting thread that I am not sure if I am looking into too much.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 10, 2014

2014/01/10

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…

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VA Court Delivers Blow To Yelp, Free Speech Of Users

2014/01/10

A Virginia state court of appeal has ruled that Yelp must disclose the real identities of seven individuals who posted anonymous, critical reviews of an Alexandria, Virginia carpet cleaning business, Hadeed Carpet. Yelp and free speech advocacy groups have decried the decision

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 10, 2014

2014/01/10

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Apologizes For Berlin Street Being Renamed “Adolf Hitler Platz” On Google Maps In a story reported by NBCNews.com’s World News, the..

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Google Apologizes For Berlin Street Being Renamed “Adolf Hitler Platz” On Google Maps

2014/01/10

In a story reported by NBCNews.com’s World News, the popular Berlin square Theodor Heuss Platz was momentarily renamed “Adolf Hitler Platz” on Google Maps. Google apologized for the error in an email sent to NBC, stating, “We were made aware of a wrong and inappropriate… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: January 10, 2014

2014/01/10

This week in search I publish my monthly Google webmaster report, it was a busy month.

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DuckDuckGo Has Biggest Day Ever In 2014 With More Than 4 Million Queries On January 7th

2014/01/10

The Guardian reported yesterday DuckDuckGo, the search engine that keeps user searches private, is now up to four million queries per day, with over a billion queries performed on the anonymous search engine during 2013. Prior to the PRISM scandal that revealed the NSA was regularly tracking…

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Facebook to Kill Sponsored Stories

2014/01/10

As of April 9, domain and open graph sponsored stories will no longer be served to users. Although Sponsored Stories can convert very well, many Facebook users found them creepy because they turned information about friend’s likes into ads.

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