Archive for the ‘Found in Search’ Category

Google Instant is intended to help save searchers time. However, the new feature has many of us in the search industry wondering just how it will impact SEO.

In a Twitter blog post Monday, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams announced that he was stepping down as CEO to focus more on “product strategy.”

This week: 58 percent of Americans turn to the Internet for product research; AOL disables Propeller, its social news website.

This week: Wikipedia’s new article assessment tool; Google Maps allows rich snippets; and Google doles out mobile devices to small businesses.

Collective encyclopedia giant Wikipedia introduced an article assessment tool that will allow readers to rate articles according to several criteria, including sourcing, completeness, neutrality and readability.

This week: Twitter’s dramatic redesign; Bing surpasses Yahoo to become no. 2; and Microsoft releases the ambitious IE 9.

This week: Google Instant launches; Facebook usages surpasses Google and Yahoo usage in U.S.; and Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta lets users “visualize sound.”

This week: Sponsored Google Maps Icons Testing in the U.S.; Google Simplifies Finding Blogs in Google.com Search; Yahoo Adds Geographically Based Suggestions to Search Assist

This week: Facebook launches Facebook Places; New YouTube Charts display top videos; and Yahoo begins the switchover to Bing Search.

This week: Google and Verizon’s net neutrality proposal; Twitter’s Tweet button; and the new Facebook fan pages