It’s official: Google has announced that starting April 21 st, the mobile friendliness of a website will be a ranking factor in mobile search results. When you think about it, this update really ...

Does the superior quality of search results from dominant firms like Google stem primarily from better algorithms or from access to larger volumes of user-generated data?

As more people searched for Googlewhacks, they became harder to find, as adding them to the list of discovered Googlewhacks instantly removed them from existence. However, the age of the Googlewhack ...

Google is facing calls for anti-privacy and anti-trust regulation on both sides of the Atlantic. And now there’s talk about something much more radical: having the U.S. government monitor Google’s ...

You can also set a Preferred Source from within your Google searches themselves. When you see a Top Stories module on your ...

It's simple to add preferred sources for Google Search. You can click the star icon to the right of any "Top Stories" panel ...

In May, we reported that Google Search algorithms lowered the rankings of deepfake sites. Now, Google has gone into more detail on how this algorithm works and how you can manually remove deepfakes ...

Leaked Google documents has given the search industry proprietary insight into Google Search, revealing very important elements that the company uses to rank content. Thousands of leaked documents, ...

Google launched seven official and confirmed algorithmic updates in 2024, four core updates and three spam updates. The March ...

Google published a research paper describing how it extracts “services offered” information from local business sites to add it to business profiles in Google Maps and Search. The algorithm describes ...