Yahoo! and It's Shortcomings

Gil Press reasons why cite>Yahoo! did not achieve the scale of Google.

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Google Search Operators

Joshua Hardwick has developed a list of Google search operators . Tuesday I found it very useful creating a search in Google Scholar.

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Search Quality Rating

Search Engine Land reports that Google has contracted with an international group of about 10,000 "Search Quality Raters" "Search Quality Raters " who evaluate the initial search results on various topics.

Google maintains a set of Guidelines which is perhaps 200 pages in length. This provides a standard for these evaluations. George Nguyen reports on Jennifer Slegg's presentation summarizing the basic concepts behind these guidelines. Marie Haynes gave a video presentation on quality rating for SEOs.

Annalee Newitz notes that Google contracts with a couple employment agencies to provide quality raters - they are not Google employees.

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Google Search Results Now Include Approximate Results

Daniel Gilbert reports on a change in Google's search algorithm , noting "Not content with making exact match keywords anything but exact, they’ve extended “same meaning” close variants to phrase and broad match modifier (BMM) keywords. Not only are plurals, stemmings, misspellings and changes to word order all fair game for your keywords, now implied words and synonyms in search terms will also trigger phrase and BMM." For those who pay to have their site show at the top of the result list, making search results less specific will require a greater expenditure to reach the same audience.

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Google Clothing Search

Denise Ho reveals a new Google clothing search tool.

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Google Indexing Emojis

Barry Schwartz had a search experience where the result included emojis .

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What Is Wrong With Icons?

Barry Schwartz notes that Google has stopped using the magnifying glass as a search icon, replacing it with the word "Search ".

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Google Search Tips

Kim Komando shares Google tips .

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Google Search

Google's John Mueller was interviewed by Will Critchlow. Mueller explains how Google search uses the concept of Domain Authority, how Google treats subdomains versus subfolders, and the technical workings of noindex/nofollow.

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New Google Search App

Barry Schwartz mentions that Google is developing a new search app.

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Google Can Index Hundreds of Megabytes From a Page

Barry Schwartz reports that Google search can index hundres of megabytes from a page , a tenfold increase from a few years ago.

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Google Search Examples

Dan Russell offers examples off how to make Google searches more productive in his blog, Searchers Research .

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Refining Your Google Search

Google search results can be filtered and refined, as shown in this video .

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Using Google to Search Within a Site

This video explains how to use Google to search within a site.

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Google Search by Voice

Sharon Gaudin reports that Google is improving voice search . Gaudin paraphased Google Fellow Amit Singhai as saying "that future searches will be more like conversations with your computer or device, which also will be able to give you information before you even ask for it."

Gaudin notes that voice recognition inaccuracies have slowed adoption. She quotes consultant Patrick Moorhead as saying "Very few people rely on any smartphone voice products. They only will rely on them when the accuracy gets to 99%. Imagine if your keyboard only was accurate 95% of the time, meaning every five keys out of 100 were inaccurate. So this is a nice improvement, but until the complete user experience gets to 99% it won't really make a difference in adoption."

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Inside Google Search

Google offers a page which showcases their latest search technology and training tools, called "Inside Search ."

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Google Maps Updated

A Google employee shows the highlights of updates to Google Maps in the linked video.

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Google Search Options

Nick Barber demonstrates several advanced Google search techniques.

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Bias In Google Search Results

Google search ranking starves those who are not clients according to Jeremy Kirk.

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When Not To Use Google

Ann Smarty recently posted her ideas on "What NOT to Use Google Search For."

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