Faster Forward Archive: Search
Google tweaks search to promote "high-quality" sites
Do Google's search results look a little different this morning? Maybe they should. The Mountain View, Calif., company announced changes to its proprietary search equations Thursday night that affect more than a tenth of its old results. A blog post outlines how Google proposes to lower the boom on uninformative...
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Rob Pegoraro
| February 25, 2011; 6:00 AM ET |
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Google socializes search further, redesigns navigation bar
Google searches will reflect more of what your friends know. The Mountain View, Calif., company is expanding its "social search" feature to show additional links created or shared by friends and make them easier to spot. As its blog post explained yesterday, Google will no longer confine those social results...
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Rob Pegoraro
| February 18, 2011; 11:00 AM ET |
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Google adds content-farm blocking extension to Chrome
You can do your part to salt the earth of content farms--mass-production sites that extrude content to fit popular search terms, as opposed to starting out with something original to say--with a new extension to Google's Chrome browser. Called Personal Blocklist, it's a free, one-click installation in Chrome. Google introduced...
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Rob Pegoraro
| February 15, 2011; 10:00 AM ET |
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Bing and Google get into search slapfight
You could say that Bing has been engaged in the sincerest form of flattery. But the company making this observation--Google--would probably not phrase things so nicely. Tuesday morning, Google alleged that Microsoft's Bing has been using that company's Internet Explorer browser and Bing toolbar to gather intelligence on Google's search...
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Rob Pegoraro
| February 2, 2011; 6:00 AM ET |
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Google promises searchers less spam, fewer content-farm results
If you've been searching for a sign that Google recognizes that its search results don't always steer you right, look no further. Search engineer Matt Cutts posted a note to the Mountain View, Calif., company's official blog on Friday that acknowledged problems with its results and pledged improvements. Cutts wrote...
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Rob Pegoraro
| January 21, 2011; 5:11 PM ET |
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Google Offers coupon launch confirmed
Google will launch Google Offers, a new service that will take on group discount sites such as Groupon and LivingSocial.
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Hayley Tsukayama
| January 21, 2011; 7:00 AM ET |
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