- Facebook may ditch Bing search partnership in favour of Yahoo! Facebook and Yahoo! have reportedly held discussions in regard to both companies working more closely together, and specifically collaborating on search, reports The Telegraph.
- New Google Account sign-ups are forced to join Google+ Web users creating Google Accounts for the first time are automatically dispensed with associated Gmail and Google+ accounts, with no option to opt-out, further enforcing the emerging paradigm that Google is Google+.
- Google begins to penalise sites with little content "above the fold" Google Search has announced an algorithmic change that now considers page layout an influence of page rank. More specifically, sites with little content "above the fold" - the area of a website that is immediately visible without scrolling - may not rank as highly from today onwards.
- Google's latest social search update further integrates Google+ Google has today announced the biggest social update to Google Search in over two years, integrating public and privately shared Google+ posts and images into search results.
- When Google Search ranking gets it wrong Sometimes when Google Search gets it wrong, it gets it wrong spectacularly. Recently, users searching the phrase "define an English person" have been receiving a very surprising and possibly offensive first-result.
- Google no longer auto-suggesting The Pirate Bay and other torrent sites in search Google is taking its own preemptive approach to tackling online piracy by removing certain keywords from its auto-complete and Google Instant search features, reports TorrentFreak.
- Google Search gets another tablet friendly update Google's company-wide efforts to unify design and user experience across all products show no signs of abating as Google this evening introduced another tablet friendly update to Google Search.
- Google+ quietly introduces Twitter-like trending topics Google+ on Thursday night quietly introduced Twitter-like trending topics to its progressing social network. 'Trends' as they are officially known on Google+ appear on Google+ Search pages and function very similar to Twitter's Trending Topics.
- Google announces Search by Image for desktop Google have announced Search by Image for desktop at their Inside Search event in San Francisco today. This latest feature allows users to perform a search on Google by simply dropping an image into the search box.
- Google’s war on content farms goes global Google’s algorithmic change targeting content farms and low-quality websites introduced last month has been rolled out globally to benefit all English language users. Today’s rollout also takes into consideration feedback from Google Search users which can now directly impact on a site’s search rank.