Google appears to be moving more towards personalization in the Google search results lately. They are even determining your location and serving up search results based on your location. If you find that annoying, or want to de-personalize the search results, here is a Firefox bookmarklet that will help you remove personalization from the search [...]
Google is now allowing you to block web sites — at the domain name level–from appearing in the search results. Previously this feature was only available via an add-on to Google’s Chrome web browser. But now, it appears that Google has begun rolling this feature out for all users.
As you are probably aware, Google has been in the media spotlight lately about the Google search quality. I took a look at a recent topical search result and compares the Google search results with the Bing search results. Google’s search results are filled with a duplicated PR Newswire press release. Bing, on the other [...]
On the Standing Dog Blog, I wrote a blog post about Google changing the title tags on your search engine listing. For certain search queries, Google is now reserving the right to change your Title Tag at their discretion. Or at least how the Title Tag of your web page appears in their search results. [...]
I have noticed a change in how Google is displaying the search results for certain cityname+keyword searches. For those of you who frequently search for something that consists of a location (or a city name) together with a key phrase, you may be thinking about how Google is altering the search results. Google has recently [...]
Bill Hartzer Search Engine Marketing