Tag Archives: search

Is Googlebot Getting More Human-Like?

May 17, 2012   Chris Crum
Is Googlebot Getting More Human-Like?

Google may be getting better at crawling javascript and Ajax.
In a Tumblr post, developer Alex Pankratov wrote this week about spotting an “ajax request issued from document.ready() callback of one website’s pages.”
“This means that the bot now executes…

Comment Spammers: These Links Are Not Helping You

May 17, 2012   Chris Crum

In light of Google’s Penguin update, it seems like a good time to suggest that you don’t spam blog comments. Even if you’re not technically spamming, and are leaving semi-thoughtful comments (but your ultimate goal is to get a link),…

Knowledge Graph: Google Officially Announces Its “Things” Results

May 17, 2012   Chris Crum
Knowledge Graph: Google Officially Announces Its “Things” Results

Google has formally announced the “Knowledge Graph,” its way of providing results about “things”. We’ve reported on the products of this a couple of times, as Google has been testing them.
An example would be when you search for a…

Knowledge Graph: Google Gets Tight With Wikipedia

May 17, 2012   Chris Crum

Google revealed the Knowledge Graph today, which is Google’s attempt to move further away from keyword-based results delivery, and get better at delivering relevant results.
Wikipedia appears to be a major provider of content to this feature. So far, every…

What If The Google Penguin Update Inadvertently Killed The Web As We Know It?

May 17, 2012   Chris Crum

Note: Perhaps the headline of this article is a little sensational, but don’t overlook the “what if” part. I’m not suggesting Google has some plot to kill the web. However, many businesses rely on Google and people are freaking out…

Google’s Amit Singhal: Penguin A Success

May 17, 2012   Chris Crum

Early this morning, Google Fellow Amit Singhal was interviewed by Danny Sullivan at Chris Sherman on stage at SMX London, the sister conference of Search Engine Land. Singhal discussed a variety of Google search-related topics.
We were hoping to get…

Google’s Knowledge Graph: Less Traffic To More Sites?

May 16, 2012   Chris Crum
Google’s Knowledge Graph: Less Traffic To More Sites?

Back in March, the Wall Street Journal put out a big article about what apparently went on to become Google’s Knowledge Graph. Google made the formal announcement today. For more on the Knowledge Graph itself, see:
Knowledge Graph: Google Officially…

Google’s Knowledge Graph Comes With Mobile-Specific Capabilities

May 16, 2012   Chris Crum
Google’s Knowledge Graph Comes With Mobile-Specific Capabilities

Google announced the launch of the Knowledge Graph today. To make a long story short, Google will show boxes in search results pages with info it thinks there’s a good chance you’re looking for, for certain queries: andmarks, celebrities, cities,…

Google Search Just Got 1,000 Times Smarter

May 16, 2012   Lance Ulanoff
Google Search Just Got 1,000 Times Smarter

Search for ‘Andromeda’ in the New Google Knowledge Graph

Click here to view this gallery.The Google Search of the future is here. Now. Today. The long-talked-about semantic web — Google prefers “Knowledge Graph” — is rolling out across all…

Should The Google Penguin Update Hit Sites Like WPMU.org?

May 16, 2012   Chris Crum

We recently told you about WPMU.org apparently getting hit by Google’s Penguin update. The site went from 8,580 visits (pretty standard for the site, having looked through the Analytics myself) to 1,527 a week later. It’s been hovering around similar…

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