Once again another list of 10 posts/stories/articles (in particular order) in the world of search this week that have been groundbreaking, interesting, amusing or all of the above…
1 Google Doodles For Sesame Street & Wallace & Gromit
This week has seen quite a few Google doodles of Sesame Street and Wallace and Gromit which has provoked quite a bit of interest…
2 Google UK Results Still Showing Irrelevant US Sites
This seems to have been going on for much longer than it should be really. We also found weird search results from Google this week…
3 10 Simple (but Important) Things to Check Before Optimizing an Existing Site
Simple lists such as this are always worth reading whether you are an experienced SEO or not. I thought this post was worthy of the list as it is a nice read and goes over some fundamentals…
4 30 SEO Problems & the Tools to Solve Them (Part 1 of 2)
A great post form SEOmoz offering a good set of tools to deal with common SEO problems. Bring on part 2…
5 MSN Introduces Dramatically Improved Redesign, Portal Drives Nearly 50% Of Bing Queries
The MSN portal site has finally been given a makeover. The change was interesting enough to generate a post on this ourselves and should really help Microsoft gain some more share of the search engine market. Also interesting is a look through time on all the MSN designs to date…
6 Google Adds “Page Preview” To Search Options
Google have added a new feature to their search results page by allowing users to preview pages before clicking on them. Like Barry Schwartz states this is not anything new as Ask did the same thing. Also there are a lot of Firefox plugins that do the same thing some of which you can see here.
7 Google patent granted: Rank adjustments via click data
This week Google were granted a patent for adjusting search rankings based on click data for related queries in a bid to improve search relevancy…
8 Google Targets Spammers With New Local Business Listing Guidelines
Google has introduced newer guidelines to help combat spammers by stopping people spamming the keywords and more…
Another service form Google and much like Google Wave there is some confusion about what it actually does. According to Google “Google Dashboard is a new service that shows a summary of the data stored with a Google account”. It’s bound to be pretty useful and for people once it’s figured out how to use it…
10 Google AdWords Sitelinks Now Available For Some Advertisers
The site links that began to show up next to text Ads back in august are officially available to those “whose ads meet a certain high quality threshold”…