Alibaba Provides Aliyun Search Engine to Battle its Chinese Rivals

by Ben

in Google News, Search Engine News, Web News

Chinese internet group Alibaba has challenged Baidu and Google China by creating its own search engine called Aliyun. The move could spark a rivalry between the various Chinese search engines. Baidu is the Chinese market leader with over 73.5 percent of the market search share and Google China is the fourth most popular with over [...]

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New Matt Cutts Video Helps Webmasters Locate Unnatural Links

by Jonny

in Google News, Search Engine News

Google has released a new video as part of its massively popular Webmaster Help series. Featuring Google guru, Matt Cutts, the video expands on how webmasters can remove links to their sites that originate from suspect sources. The importance of the quality of inbound links has become more and more significant on how websites are [...]

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Google set to Generate $5 Billion from Tablets

Search giant Google could make up to $5 billion through advertisements on tablet devices this year, according to a report by Marin Software. Marin is a large firm that assists advertisers when purchasing web-search ads. Their estimate follows the recent news that Google has increased the prices that advertisers pay to display their messages on [...]

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Twitter Set to Acquire Social TV Analytics Company Bluefin Labs

Social media giant Twitter has reportedly acquired social TV analytics company Bluefin Labs. The cost of the purchased has not been revealed but it is believed to be Twitter’s biggest acquisition to date. Launched in 2011, Bluefin Labs provides analysis of social media responses to individual TV broadcasts, which offers a breakdown of engagement, gender [...]

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Facebook Reveals Graph Search

Last week, Mark Zuckerberg used a invitation only event at Facebook’s California based headquarters to announce the hotly anticipated new product the Facebook team have been working on. Named ‘Graph Search’, the new feature aims to utilise Facebook’s massive amount of personal data to create a ‘social search’ that delivers you search results tailored to [...]

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Google, Apple and Microsoft Given Green Light to Buy Kodak Patents

The sale of Kodak’s digital-imaging patents to a group of technology companies including Apple, Microsoft, and Google has been agreed by a US court. A deal was closed for $527 million (£328 million), although Kodak had hoped to secure a figure in the region of $2 billion. Kodak filed for bankruptcy in January last year [...]

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Google Extends its Wallet Service to Include ‘Zavers’

After several ventures into the world of online coupons, Google has come back with a new addition to its range of services, ‘Zavers’. The service revolves around enabling smartphone users to redeem coupons through their devices, replacing the need for traditional printed coupons. Google has designed the service to only offer you discounts that are [...]

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FTC Rules Google Does Not Skew Results

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ruled that search engine giant, Google does not bias its search results in order to put competitors at a disadvantage. The FTC concluded that changes made to Google’s search algorithm were indeed for innovative purposes and not to deliberately penalise results from competitors. In doing this, the FTC [...]

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Yahoo and AVG Enter New Search and Distribution Agreement.

Search provider Yahoo has forged an agreement with anti-virus company AVG. Amsterdam-based internet and mobile security provider AVG announced last Thursday that they had entered an agreement with Yahoo to provide a more secure search service to tackle malware infections. AVG’s ‘Secure Search’ warns web users about potentially dangerous websites. The aim is to protect [...]

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Google Introduces New Tool Simplifying Snippet Data Markup

Google have announced a new tool for simplifying the process of formatting web data to feature in Google’s ‘rich snippets’ section of their search results. The Data Highlighter is available through Google’s Webmaster Tools and by using the point and click interface, users can label their content in accordance to data variables applicable to Google’s [...]

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