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There’s no doubt that Bing is here…and it’s here in a big way.  Microsoft’s new “decision engine” was launched with a multi-million dollar advertising campaign, and it’s even managed to unseat Yahoo in the number two slot in the search engine wars.
Still, Bing doesn’t have Google worried yet, or does it?
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Forget search engine rankings. Google is turning an eye toward bigger and more important things, like which of its 20,000 employees are most likely to quit.
That’s what a new Google algorithm can supposedly figure out, according to the company.
Google officials are hesitant to give any details on the new algorithm, understandably. It’s still [...]

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Google has introduced two changes to its search results pages – expanded “related searches” lists and longer search descriptions.
“Related Searches” is meant to provide related items at the bottom of your search results page.  Google says it’s a “new technology that can better understand associations and concepts related to your [...]

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There is an Ad Age story circulating today that tells of the grumblings of larger, mainstream publishers and the way their ranking is handled by Google.
The article does anything but stay unbiased and the tone is surprisingly direct, at one point referring to Google’s organic search results as an “undifferentiated slush of results”.
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Yahoo just made some changes to their index with brand new web data and an update to its crawling, indexing, and ranking algorithms.
The company has done 2 search updates since last November.  The first one occurred in December of 2008 and another in late January of this year.  Expect the full update to be completed [...]

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