In some earlier articles, (ICANN Approves Brand Name Suffixes and IAB Opposes Brand Domains) we’ve discussed the then approaching launch of generic top level domains, and some of the issues around them. Now, the day has come, and as of yesterday, ICANN began accepting applications for top level domains with custom suffixes, instead of the […]
Author Archives: Net Age
Every now and then, you’ll find a site that has no optimisation to speak off, but it’s still performing well in the results, and maybe even outranking yours. There are a number of different factors that could be causing this. Take a look at this video of Matt Cutts discussing the issue. <iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ […]
The recent announcement regarding Google’s integration of Google+ content with search results, (as discussed here in our article on Google Search Plus) has produced some interesting reactions. Accusations of Google using its position in search to unfairly advantage its own products have been rumbling around for quite some time now, but it seems that this latest […]
If you’re signed into Google.com when you search, you’re going to start seeing a new message on your search results page. A message like this: If you see that above your results, it means that you’ve Google’s latest search format, “Search Plus Your World.” This feature went live yesterday, but hasn’t been activated everywhere yet, […]
Last month, Google first posted a list of the latest 10 updates to their search algorithm. Nothing too specific of course, but certainly a list of things that would be looked at differently in future. Most of them dealt with language and translation tweaks, but there were a few that were changes in how site […]
Over the past few months, Google has been showing previews of their new look and feel over almost all of their products, from Gmail to Google Docs, and everything in between. It’s already been implemented in some places, in others, you’ve had the option to try the new look. Either way, they’ve been updating their […]
Google is carrying out another round of spring cleaning, according to the official Google blog. Effectively, they’re in the process of shutting down and discontinuing a few of their less than successful products over the course of the next year. It isn’t really a bad thing, although there will always be the people who found […]
A recent post on the Official Google Blog showed a list of the 10 most recent improvements to the Google search algorithm, that complex piece of code that determines which websites to show for any given search. Most of these changes relate to foreign language searches, and the improvement of auto-complete options and cross-translation, and as a […]
A long time ago, when search engines were new, there was a search operator known as “and” that made sure the words that it joined were both present on the pages you got as search engine results. To use it, all you had to do was add a + symbol in your search. So if […]
In what’s only the latest indication that Google+ will be a factor in the search engine rankings, it seems that Google has started to deliver + results in its SERPs. According to several sources, including All About Content, Google+ posts are showing up in searches for which there are Google+ pages, if those pages have […]