About ten days ago, Rob Ousbey posted a video on his blog showing Google streaming updates to search results as he typed letters into a search box. As he typed out his query, not only did he see a dropdown of suggested queries, but the search results themselves actually changed as he added letters. [...]
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A major change to the way Google presents search results arrived Wednesday as Google began changing the search results page as its users typed their queries.Website Hosting and Page Loads Affecting Search Ranking
It is no secret that search engines (Google in particular) are obsessed with speed. In fact, Google decided early on to display the actual time it took to process your search query and return the valid results. The speed with which search results are returned by Google are still displayed to this day. You can see them at the top of the search results pages in the text that reads something like this: ”Results 1 – 10 of about 122,000,000 for [search term]. (0.52 seconds)”.Does capital or small letters affect SERP result?
I saw this kind of problem first time. My keyword “software development India” is showing different SERP results. If I search for “software development india” then it appears at 153 in Google for perceptionsystem.com and if I search for “software development India” then it appears at 20. It means, it is showing different results for SERP.
Does capital or small letters affect SERP result? Is there anyone expert to answer this?Google Adds Site Hacked Notifications To Search Results
Matt Cutts of Google announced on the Google Webmaster Blog that they have added a new notification for hacked sites to the search results. Google had malware notifications in the search results since 2007, but now Google is adding a notification for searchers to be aware that the site they may...
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Delivering the "Right" Search Results
The Apache Solr search server that powers Acquia Search has many powerful features. One of the less appreciated ones is the ability to specify at query time that documents matching certain criteria should get an extra "boost" in their relevancy score. This means that they appear higher in the search results.
Imagine that you are maintaining a site and you have recently added Acquia Search. Your boss, Bob, is not pleased, however. He says "I thought you told me this new search would do a better job of finding the most relevant results - but when I try it the ones I expect to see come up first are not there." After protesting that the result are good matches to the key words, further discussion reveals that Bob expect his blog posts to be the most relevant matches!Google: Complexity is Good!
Google is growing *far* more complex.
Page x can rank based primarily on the criteria for page y from that same site. So if you analyze the data behind the page which is showing up in the search results, in some cases you will be looking at the wrong data sets!
Google has typically displayed page titles in the search results. However there are now numerous exceptions to that.
Google has aggressively pushed into regionalization and localization, but sometimes they miscategorize a website's target market or a user's location ... delivering irrelevant search results.Not Brands but Entities: The Influence of Named Entities on Google and Yahoo Search Results
Does Google favor big brands when showing search results? That question has been bandied about on the Web for a while, but the answer may be more complicated than just a matter of brands. The question arose this morning on Malcolm Coles’ blog, in his post Google treating brand names in search terms [...]
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