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Today, Google relaunched several of their help forums, moving them from Google Groups to a new help-specific platform. The English and Polish Google Webmaster Help group have made the move to this new format, which the other languages soon to follow. Below, more details about how this change will benefit site owners and … Continue reading »

Recently, Microsoft Live Search added malware warnings to their search results. If a searcher clicks a result that Microsoft has detected contains malware, a popup warns then not to proceed to the site. As Matt noted yesterday, Google and Yahoo! also provide malware warnings to searchers. How can you find out if Microsoft … Continue reading »

Historically, Google Blog Search has indexed primarily via RSS feeds, which meant that for blogs that published partial feeds, Google Blog Search only indexed that partial portion. Any links or text in the rest of the post weren’t available through Blog Search. (The full posts were indexed in web search, of course.) The … Continue reading »

A few weeks ago, I organized and moderated several sessions at SMX London. One of those sessions was about international SEO, which in part, touched on the issues related to having content available for multiple countries and languages. What’s the best way to make sure that searchers in a particular country or speaking … Continue reading »

Hi Everyone! Welcome to the new site. I’m still working on moving everything over, so you may find that a lot of the links don’t work and that other things are a bit wonky. Please let me know if you run into construction! Special thanks to Nate, Cesar, Michael, Mohit, Chris, and his … Continue reading »

In July Yahoo! launched their BOSS API, which enables you to “build your own search service”. Today, they’ve expanded the functionality of that API by adding a Key Terms feature. The technology used in Key Terms is the same used for Search Assist, which provides search suggestions and enables searchers to explore concepts … Continue reading »