Google is closing the doors on its social media service, Orkut, to focus on more profitable areas of its business.

Bing has added two new search features for the school break season. (1) The ability to search for free online courses offered by the Khan Academy. (2) The ability to search for books that you can buy online, pick up at a local library and/or view fully online.

Press releases and other content submitted for distribution via PR Newswire’s wire distribution network will be evaluated under new guidelines to help ensure quality, and prevent manipulation of search.

Bing has introduced several new Twitter-focused search features, including the ability to search by hashtag and by a user’s Twitter handle and the inclusion of tweeted content in the search results.

Google is now indexing more mobile app content in its search results for those who have apps installed on their mobile devices.

The Associated Press, AP, announced they will be using algorithms, machines, robots to write their corporate earnings stories for the business news report. Yes…

No longer than one year ago, on June 11th 2013, Google, launched a new algorithm whose main purpose was to clean some very “shady” niches, such as “payday loans” or “buy Viagra”.

It’s important to get clear the value of changes in terms of SEO impact before allocating in-demand tech time to work on fixes. To throw up just one example: if your page returns in less than one second what impact will fixing render-blocking CSS have on absolute page load times

SEO is a totally different beast today than it was just a few years ago, and many would argue that link building is the aspect that’s suffered the biggest beating since then. Yes, the process of link building today is nothing like how we did it in years past — but the qualities that…

It’s been a big year so far for product listing ads on both Google and Bing.