Google on Friday announced that it has adjusted its search-engine ranking system to demote so-called “low quality” sites and boost the rankings of sites with original content and substantial analysis.
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Facebook ruled the Internet in 2010. It was both the most-searched term — accounting for 2.11% of all searches — and the top-visited website, attracting 8.93% of all U.S. visits, compared to Google’s 7.19%.
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Almost a year after Google’s China servers got hacked, launching a standoff between Google and the Chinese government over censorship, a set of classified cables released by WikiLeaks confirms that the Chinese government was in…
Almost a year after Google’s China servers got hacked, launching a standoff between Google and the Chinese government over censorship, a set of classified cables released by WikiLeaks confirms that the Chinese government was in…
Rich Skrenta thinks he has built a better search engine. This week, he’s launching Blekko, whose web searches will only accept information from curated lists of trusted sites, mediated by users to filter out irrelevant results….