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Whatever Happened to DuckDuckGo?

Is the Edward Snowden case the best thing that ever happened to Duck-Duck-Go (DDG), the little search engine that offers big-time privacy protection? It sure looked that way last month when Snowden's revelations about US Government Internet surveillance sent privacy obsessed end-users flocking the upstart search engine. The company's daily searches skyrocked from around 400,000…

Google Rolls Out Multi-Week Update

Brace yourselves for another Google algortihm update. According to SEO media sources like SearchEngineLand.com, the search engine giant is in the midst of an update that's being released over the course of several weeks. So far details on the update are pretty sketchy,  but its existence was confirmed by webspam chief, Matt Cutts while replying…

Penguin 2.0: One Month Later

When Google rolled out its Penguin 2.0 update web publishers braced themselves for the worst. But when the dust settled, Penguin 2.0's impact was nowhere near as bad as expected. Today, just over a month after its initial release, it seems as though Penguin 2.0 didn't have a huge impact, but where it did hit;…

Bing Adding Change History Graph Tool

Are beefed up analytics Bing's best shot at competing with Google? That's what Microsoft officials are hoping as they roll out their new Change History Graph on the backend of the world's second largest search engine. The new analytic tool allows Bing advertisers to easily track how various changes have impacted the performance of their…

Google Punishes “Payday Loans,” Other Spammy Queries and Bad Mobile

[caption id="attachment_34819" align="alignright" width="158" caption="Cutts comes down on 'spammy queries'"][/caption] Google is rolling out a couple new updates designed to punish, "spammy queries," and bad mobile sites. Spammy Queries Matt Cutts has been warning of the impending changes for months and had even name-checked a few likely targets, including searches for "payday loans," on Google.co.uk.…

Online Gambling: A Short History

Welcome to the Worldwide Web Without the web browser, there would be no Internet gambling - and without Mosaic, there's no telling which direction the Internet would have have headed. In the pre-Mosaic, browsing the Internet was anything but user friendly and required PhD level computer skills. So the next time one of your players…