Posted November 27, 2012, 6:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, Industry News
Anyone who thinks Google's results are solely the product of fancy-pants algorithms and clever engineering -- think again. The Register has taken a look into Google's 160-page guidebook which is essentially a reference manual for human "raters" -- yep, that's…
Posted April 25, 2012, 1:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
In an effort to penalize evil webspammers and reward those who utilize their SEO powers for good, Google announced that it will be adding new anti-webspam measures to its search algorithm. The changes are expected to roll out over the…
Posted March 16, 2012, 8:00 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in The Web
According to research by Incapsula, approximately half of all Web traffic stems from automated sources. The outfit determined that humans only represent about 49% of traffic, while the remaining chunk is derived from bots. Of that bot-related traffic, 20% stems…
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