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- Keyword 'Not Provided' By Google Spikes, Now 7-14% In Cases
- by Daniel Waisberg. Search Engine Land, November 2, 2011. "Google's new encrypted search for logged in users now appears to be blocking a much higher percentage of search terms than when it initially rolled out two weeks ago. In some cases, it might even be higher than the 10% or less figure that the company initially predicted might be impacted..."
Added: 3 November 2011;
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- More data, more transparency around government requests
- Posted by Dorothy Chou, Senior Policy Analyst. Google public Policy Blog, Tuesday, October 25, 2011. "... Today we’re updating the Government Requests tool with numbers for requests that we received from January to June 2011. For the first time, we’re not only disclosing the number of requests for user data, but we’re showing the number of users or accounts that are specified in those requests too..."
Added: 26 October 2011;
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- Google To Begin Encrypting Searches & Outbound Clicks By Default With SSL Search
- by Danny Sullivan. Search Engine Land, October 18, 2011. "Google will now begin encrypting searches that people do by default, if they are logged into Google.com already through a secure connection. The change to SSL search also means that sites people visit after clicking on results at Google will no longer receive “referrer” data that reveals what those people searched for, except in the case of ads..."
Added: 20 October 2011;
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- A Tale of Two Studies: Establishing Google & Bing Click-Through Rates
- Behavioral Study by Slingshot SEO, Inc. using client data from, January 2011 to August 2011. The main objective of this study, first and foremost, is to better understand user CTR behavior and to help quantify ROI from SEO campaigns. We attempted to do this by answering the following questions: 1. What is our observed CTR curve for organic U.S. results for positions #1-10 in Google SERPs? 2. What is our observed CTR curve for organic U.S. results for positions #1-10 in Bing SERPs? 3. How do the CTR curves for Google and Bing compare with each other? 4. What amount of long-tail click-through can we expect for a keyword that has a stable rank in its SERP? 5. What impact do images, videos, news, places, and shopping results have on user behavior? [Requires Registration]
Added: 20 October 2011;
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- Making search more secure
- Posted by Evelyn Kao, Product Manager. Google Public Policy Blog, Tuesday, October 18, 2011. "... As search becomes an increasingly customized experience, we recognize the growing importance of protecting the personalized search results we deliver. As a result, we're enhancing our default search experience for signed-in users. Over the next few weeks, many of you will find yourselves redirected to https://www.google.com (note the extra 's') when you’re signed in to your Google Account. This change encrypts your search queries and Google’s results page..."
Added: 19 October 2011;
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- ACCC goes after Google again for "deceptive" ads
- By Stan Beer. ITWire, Friday, 14 October 2011. "The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has appealed against a recent decision in the Federal Court which cleared Google from allegedly posting misleading ads of competitors of sponsored advertisers in its search results. The ads in question would claim to be those of an advertiser but when clicked take web surfers to the page of a competitor..."
Added: 14 October 2011;
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- New snippets for list pages
- Posted by Raj Krishnan, Product Manager. Google Inside Search Blog, 26 August 2011. "Snippets—the few lines of text that appear under every search result—are designed to give you a sense for what’s on the page and why it's relevant to your query. This week we started rolling out snippet improvements for pages that contain lists; results for these pages will now reflect the structure of the page, rather than just showing two lines of text..."
Added: 1 September 2011;
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- The evolution of sitelinks: expanded and improved
- Posted by Daniel Rocha, Software Engineer, Sitelinks Team. The Official Google Blog, 16 August 2011. "... Sitelinks will now be full-size links with a URL and one line of snippet text—similar to regular results—making it even easier to find the section of the site you want. We’re also increasing the maximum number of sitelinks per query from eight to 12..."
Added: 23 August 2011;
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- As Deal With Twitter Expires, Google Realtime Search Goes Offline
- by Danny Sullivan. Search Engine Land, July 4, 2011. "Yesterday, we reported that Google Realtime Search had mysteriously disappeared. Today comes the reason why: Google's agreement with Twitter to carry its results has expired, taking with it much of the content that was in the service with it..."
Added: 5 July 2011;
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- Improved On-Demand Indexing - Google CSE
- Posted by: Rui Jiang, Software Engineer. Google Custom Search Blog, Thursday, June 30, 2011. "When we launched On-Demand Indexing in Custom Search, our goal was to make it possible for you to include your new and changed pages quickly in your website's search results. Since then, we've improved indexing freshness and doubled On-Demand indexing quotas. Today, we're happy to announce further improvements to On-Demand Indexing that make the process simpler and more flexible..."
Added: 4 July 2011;
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- Poof, it's gone: Google says it zapped content by request
- By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, June 28, 2011. "Google complied with 87 percent of the content-removal requests made by federal agencies and U.S. courts in the last six months of 2010, the company said. Google released its first Government Requests transparency report June 28, listing the number of requests for content removal it gets from governments around the world, the types of requests and percentage of compliance..."
Added: 30 June 2011;
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- The +1 button launches in Australia
- Posted by Kate Conroy, Product Specialist. Official Google Australia Blog, Tuesday, June 28, 2011. "Back in March, we announced the +1 button on search results in English on Google.com - a way for you to recommend content to your friends, contacts and the rest of the world directly from Google search results and ads. Today, 1+'s will start appearing on Google's search results in Australia for some users, and will start showing for most logged in users by the end of the week. Just like on Google.com, the +1 button allows you to recommend a news article, your favourite brand of sandals or an attraction you visited with a single click.
Added: 28 June 2011;
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- Why Google Panda Is More A Ranking Factor Than Algorithm Update
- by Danny Sullivan. Search Engine Land, June 21, 2011. "With Google Panda Update 2.2 upon us, it's worth revisiting what exactly Panda is and isn't. Panda is a new ranking factor. Panda is not an entirely new overall ranking algorithm that's employed by Google. The difference is important for anyone hit by Panda and hoping to recover from it..."
Added: 28 June 2011;
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- Google Transparency Report
- Google. "We've created Government Requests to show the number of government inquiries for information about users and requests to remove content from our services. We hope this step toward greater transparency will help in ongoing discussions about the appropriate scope and authority of government requests..."
Added: 28 June 2011;
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- More Layout Options
- Posted by: Ying Huang and Liang Ch'ng, Software Engineers . Google Custom Search Blog, Thursday, June 16, 2011. "Ever since the launch of Custom Search, users have asked us to provide more flexible options to integrate search into their websites. Today, we're launching a set of new layout options for your Custom Search experience. If you go to the Look and feel tab, you’ll see a set of new layouts that you can choose from..."
Added: 23 June 2011;
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