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There are two big news items now being discussed in the SEO community: a new Google search algorithm called “Hummingbird” and the encryption of all search data that Google recently announced. The Hummingbird algorithm will better focus on the meaning…

Twitter now shows protected tweets in its search results. But don’t worry, not all users will see them. These tweets will be shown only to the user who has the protected account, and to that user’s followers, according to a…

Google.com went down on Friday afternoon around 3:50pm PT for about five minutes. Google says you can follow their dashboard for more information about Google services: http://www.google.com/appsstatus. What’s interesting is that, for the 5 minutes that Google servers went down, web…

You should have noticed an announcement on the Google AdWords Keyword Tool interface. It says that, in the coming month, the External Tool will no longer be available and you should use the new Keyword Planner instead. The new Keyword…

Google announced an update that changes how each keyword’s 1-10 numeric Quality Score is reported in AdWords. They say that, now, the Quality Score in your reports reflects the factors that influence the visibility and expected performance of your ads….

The Google Panda Dance is a new SEO term coined last week. It was created after Matt Cutts announced that the Panda algorithm will be updated every month, but that update will be rolled out slowly throughout the month. So…

Bing tries new approaches to social and community search: Bing Boards. Bing Boards are collections of unique images, videos and links, created by people who are passionate about the topics they blog about. The new Boards will appear in the…

You’ve probably heard something about PRISM – a secret U.S. government program to give the National Security Agency direct access to Google servers. Google’s CEO Larry Page denied speculations that Google joined this program. “First, we have not joined any…