This week we covered the ongoing Google search ranking volatility that spiked on June 4th. Have you heard of the Great Decoupling? Did Google start indexing less in late May? Google updated its ...

Google has updated its search ranking algorithm to "more strongly affect the sites that host explicit videos but don't allow Googlebot to fetch those video files" which may lead to a "significant drop ...

Leaked Google documents has given the search industry proprietary insight into Google Search, revealing very important elements that the company uses to rank content. Thousands of leaked documents, ...

An internal Google document leak reveals the secrets to ranking in Google Search. Credit: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images The key to online success is usually dependent on one major factor ...

Plus, Google is ordered to provide data portability to some third-party services.

Recently, a major leak of Google’s internal API documents gave us a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the search giant’s algorithm. These documents are packed with valuable (and controversial) ...

Political leanings don't factor into Google's search algorithm. But the authoritativeness of page links that the algorithm spits out and the perception of thousands of human raters do. In a tweet ...

Google defended its system of ranking Web pages in search results in court Friday after a competitor claimed its pages were unfairly blocked. A California judge is considering whether to allow a ...

The first core update of 2024 finished rolling out on April 19 - this was a pretty big one but it overlapped with other big changes leading to a 45% reduction in unhelpful content. Google’s March 2024 ...

Leaked documents have exposed discrepancies between Google's public statements and the actual processes of its search algorithm. This leak, encompassing 2,500 pages, was first reported by SEO expert ...