Google was recently granted a new patent with the name ‘Duplicate document detection in a web crawler system’. The patent explains how a content filter from the search engine can work with a duplicate content server, which in itself is not a new practice for Google, more an advancement of existing technologies.
Search engines search for text, and if there isn’t any meaningful text on your site then the search engines (Google, Bing etc) wont index your site regularly, and as a result no one is going to find the site!
However, this is not to say that to solve this you should just publish any old thing [...]
Microsoft is set to launch a high-profile UK agency and advertiser roadshow in an attempt to convince brands to invest in its new search platform Bing.
The technology giant in it’s attempt to claw back market share from Google, is flying in senior US Bing ’supporters’ for its annual search summit held in London this [...]
A revolutionary new search engine that computes answers rather than pointing to websites is launched officially today.
WolframAlpha, named after it’s British computer scientist creator, Stephen Wolfram, takes a visitors query and then uses computational power to crunch through huge databases in order to provide the answer.
The service can compute answers to [...]
By Joseph Menn in San Francisco and Tim Bradshaw in London of the Financial Times
Published: March 29 2009 18:54
Tumbling advertising revenues are laying waste to another wave of internet entrepreneurs as they struggle to satisfy promises of free music to users and cash flows to the labels that own the copyright.
Two popular services that allowed [...]
Google has blocked UK users from viewing music videos on YouTube after pulling out of negotiations with British music rights body PRS.
Google said PRS for Music, (Performing Rights Society)
Action plan: what to do when your Google rankings have dropped
Has your website lost its rankings in Google? Did your rankings drop or did your website vanish completely from the Google rankings? Whilst many things can cause a Search Engine ranking drop, this article explains what you can do [...]