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If you search for “vatican” on Google, the first result that shows up is not the PR9 official website of the Vatican, or the Wikipedia page for the Vatican City, but instead you will see a page titled Vatican: the Holy See, the homepage of www.pedofilo.com.

The website is currently down, but it’s still showing on th...

Cool infographic from PPC Blog explains how Google works!

Google’s algorithm hasn’t been revealed and the more than 200 signals that determine whether a page is relevant for a search query are still secret, but if you want to know what happens when Google bots crawl the web following links, this is a very intere...

Four billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store, and other device manufacturers are embracing the App Store model: Samsung sells apps for its mobile phones and televisions, Intel launched the AppUp Center for netbooks, Windows Mobile AppStars sells Windows Phone applications, while the Ovi Store feat...

Google Webmaster Central Blog has published a useful post about a new Sitemaps extension that allows you to add information about images on your website’s pages.

If you know how to write an XML Sitemap file, adding images will be easy: You just have to add information about the images right after you specify the URL...

Website: thupr3: ‘Natural’ SEO

Overview: It causes hot debate. On the one hand it’s a necessary part of any communications programme. On the other it’s an unethical black art. With every shade of grey in the middle.

The truth is out there somewhere, and there are all kinds of services aimed at helping us.

Put the da...

The Microsoft and Yahoo search deal, now being referred to as the ‘search alliance’ appears to finally be underway. In recent months, speculation has been focused on the regulatory approval required for the deal to move forward. With the recent regulatory approval, all attention is now focused on the integration...

Google software engineer Steven Baker wrote a blog post on how Google handles synonyms. Understanding natural language is a challenge for all search engines and Google found that 70% of user searches are affected by synonyms.

Feedback from users and quality raters on search result page mistakes isn’t used to manuall...

Since the introduction of real time search results in Google and Bing, Facebook and Twitter SEO became more important than ever. SEO tests and experiments flourished following recent revelations on how Google ranks tweets.

As we could expect, Google engineer Amit Singhal didn’t explain all the factors that influ...

I have never been a fan of Google Suggest or autocomplete features in software in general, but often I’m enjoying Searchcowboys’ Daily Search Pic(k): Google Suggest is used as a funny way of showing stereotypes about different nationalities in Europe, based on keyword search volumes.

Google Suggest is experimenting ...

Apple Tablet, iSlate: There’s a lot of talk about it these days, building the hype around the new revolutionary Apple computer that rumors say could be launched in… well, nobody knows when exactly yet.

Speculations about the new device are driving Apple’s stock price higher and even the Financial Times blog is linki...