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Check out the latest news from the world of search in this week’s Search News Round Up. Poorly reviewed merchant? Google may drop your rankings later this year At the ‘How to Rank Better in Google and Bing’ SMX West conference, Google’s head of… Read more

Luton Airport Facebook Fail Luton airport have been under fire after their social media agency put a picture of a plane crash that took place at another airport on its Facebook page. The hugely offensive image showed the aftermath of a horrible accident… Read more

#Googleplusupdate: profile improvements, revamped Local Reviews and YouTube sync Yesterday Google+ rolled out a number of visual improvements to the platform. One of these updates is the introduction of much larger cover photos, meaning users must scroll… Read more

Traffic from Google Image Search drops dramatically since redesign Just over a month ago Google released its redesign of Image Search and mentioned that in Google’s own tests, they had seen “a net increase in the average click-through rate to the… Read more

This week, it’s a 4:1 ratio of Google to Bing news. We’ve got thrills, spills, spam battles, unannounced Penguin updates (possibly), new XML sitemaps and so much more. Welcome to the Search News Round Up! Google fights fake online reviews Worried… Read more

Big brand hacking On Monday, Burger King was subjected to a ridiculous and embarrassing hacking on Twitter. Its profile picture was changed to a McDonald’s logo and its bio declared “Just got sold to McDonald’s because the whopper flopped”. However,… Read more

On Wednesday 23 January 2013 Google announced a global update to its image search functionality, announcing that the changes were made to make image searching “faster, more beautiful, and more reliable”. No one can deny that Google has met these criteria… Read more

The past week has been full of little news nuggets, though we’ve been spared any huge revelations. Check out this week’s Search News Round Up below. Google fixes Webmaster Tools link reporting bug Last week’s headline news was the fact that… Read more

Another Facebook lawsuit This week, Facebook is facing legal action for a change. It is being sued by Rembrandt, a company acting on behalf of late programmer Johannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer. It has been claimed that Facebook’s success is partly… Read more