Posts for Other Search Engines

It’s a question I’m often asked.  How many keywords or keyphrases should a web page ideally contain?  Here are my thoughts... What is a keyword/keyphrase? Essentially they are the words or phrases that the user employs (i.e. types into the search box) when using a search engine. Keywords to a large extent define the function [...]

Microsoft’s Bing showed some growth in June according to a report just out from US Internet marketing research company, comScore Inc.  Although still eating the dust from Google way out in front, Bing showed greater growth than its main search rival last month, with its share in the U.S. market increasing from 12.1% in May [...]

It’s been an interesting few months for Google; they’re moving into new areas (potentially including an iTunes-esque music service and a social media platform to rival Facebook), have updated their search algorithm and indexing technique and have won several court cases against them (including a recent victory over Viacom regarding copyrighted material hosted on YouTube). [...]

Has anyone else seen Google’s latest update to their results pages? Have a look at the screenshot below: They’ve removed the underline from each returned result; the change doesn’t appear to have come into place across all browsers yet though. I just did a quick search on Mozilla Firefox and the underline remains, whereas a [...]