Will Ask.com Google Arbitrage Ever Stop?

Google has been steadily cracking down on sites with poor quality content, both on the organic and the paid side. So why does Ask.com continue to get away with it, and what’s it getting out of the relationship? The post Will Ask.com Google Arbitrage Ever Stop? appeared first on Search Engine Land.

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Search In Pics: Darth Vader Painting, Staircase Bobsledding & Google Family Hackathon

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. GoogleBot Stuck In The Woods: Source: Google+ Google Family Hackathon Day:…

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Google Maps Navigation Now Covers 104 Countries

Android Police points out that Google has expanded navigation for Google Maps to 20 additional countries. These are mostly in Africa, the Caribbean islands and South America.  From Algeria to Venezuela, the addition of these 20 brings to an impressive 104 the total number of countries where Google…

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SearchCap: Bing Predicts Scotland Vote, Google Maps Navigation Expands & Bing Ads Sitelinks

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Cortana Coming To Windows 9, Will It Replace Bing? Next week in San Francisco, Microsoft will unveil Windows 9 for the press. Among the features of the new OS is…

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Want Scotland Election Results? Don’t Bother Asking Google Or Bing

It’s not often you have a vote that might create a new, independent nation. But that’s what’s happening today with Scotland. It’s such a big event that you’d think Google and Bing would be doing something special to provide election results. That’s not the case….

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SearchCap: Google+ In Search, Bing Image Update, RTBF & Mistaken Google Penalties

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Image Search Updates Include Touch Friendly Result Pages That Adapt To Screen Size & Resolution Over the next few weeks, Bing is rolling out new updates…

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The End Is Near For Panoramio, Google To Migrate Photos To Google Maps Views

Googler Evan Rapoport announced this week that Google would be closing Panoramio, the geolocation photo site that lets users upload photos to Google Maps and Google Earth. In place of Panoramio, Google will be migrating photos to its Google Maps Views platform. In an interview with CNET, Rapoport…

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SearchCap: Google TV Rank, Covario Acquired By Dentsu & More

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Covario To Be Acquired By Dentsu Aegis Network, Rio SEO To Remain Independent Covario, one of the very large search marketing agencies in the US with over 220*…

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Google Revives, Upgrades My Maps

Like many of Google’s local/mapping products, My Maps has had a … let’s call it a “checkered” history. It’s been heavily promoted and then seemingly ignored. It’s been renamed (to “My Places”) and had some of its features co-opted by other…

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German Official: Google Should Reveal Its Ranking Algorithm

One of the unanswered questions in the ongoing European-Google antitrust saga is what concrete changes or concessions critics want (or will accept) from Google. One of those things may have just come to light in a Financial Times interview with German justice minister Heiko Maas. Maas asserts in…

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