June 1, 2011
When you follow interesting accounts on Twitter, it’s easy to stay connected with what’s most meaningful to you. Twitter is excited to launch the Follow Button, a new way to discover and instantly follow Twitter accounts directly from the websites you visit everyday. More than 50 sites have added the Follow Button today (31. May [...]
February 1, 2011
Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search result and denies it! A report from the official Google Blog. It all started with tarsorrhaphy. Really. As it happens, tarsorrhaphy is a rare surgical procedure on eyelids. And in the summer of 2010, we were looking at the search results for an unusual misspelled query [torsorophy]. Google returned the [...]
January 26, 2011
A few days ago, Google announced that they are going to fight search engine spam stronger than before: “We’re evaluating multiple changes that should help drive spam levels even lower, including one change that primarily affects sites that copy others’ content and sites with low levels of original content. We’ll continue to explore ways to [...]
September 9, 2010
After years of refusing the “portal” label, it seems that Google has finally had a change of mind. Google’s new attitude is evident on its Our Philosophy – Ten things we know to be true page. As Eric Goldman points out, that page has changed: On June 3, 2004 (per archive.org), the page said “Google [...]