The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 uncovers a previously unknown shipwreck, raising hopes that the missing jet could be found.

Facebook could be about to release its own search engine, letting users find articles to share with their friends alongside their status updates.

​It’s 2015—when we feel sick, fear disease, or have questions about our health, we turn first to the internet. According to the Pew Internet Project, 72 percent of US internet users look up health-related information online. But an astonishing number of the pages we visit to learn about private health concerns—confidentially, we assume—are tracking our queries, sending the sensitive data to third party corporations, even shipping the information directly to the same brokers who...

Many businesses around the world could wake up on Tuesday to discover their search ranking has been downgraded. After a monthslong warning period, Google will add “mobile friendliness” to the 200 or so factors it uses to list websites on its search engine. As a result, websites that don’t meet Google’s criteria will tumble in its all-important rankings.

Is your business prepared for the coming “Mopocalypse”? If not, what does that mean for you and your website? It means that as of April 21st, if your site is not mobile-friendly it will be pushed down in Google’s mobile search engine results and replaced by your competitors that have mobile-friendly websites.

My biggest secrets for SEO and your content marketing budget? Content doesn't have to be expensive. You don't have to create all the content. You don't always need paid distribution. Now, learn what you should do with these tips.

The internet is stuffed with garbage. Anti-vaccination websites make the front page of Google, and fact-free "news" stories spread like wildfire. Google has devised a fix – rank websites according to their truthfulness. Google's search engine currently uses the number of incoming links to a web page as a proxy for quality, determining where it appears in search results. So pages that many other sites link to are ranked higher. This system has brought us the search engine as we know it today...

Pasquale's 'Black Box Society' takes on the destructive power of money-hungry computation.

Marketers of all stripes are hearing more about providing unique content and value to their audiences, and how that's what Google wants to show searchers. Unique content is straightforward enough, but what exactly does everyone mean by "unique value?" What does that actually look like? In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand illustrates the answer.

Google's grip on the U.S. Internet search market slipped last month. It was the largest decline since 2009. The search giant's share of the market fell to 75.2% in December from 79.3% a year ago, according to analytics firm Statcounter. That's the smallest share of the market for Google since at least 2008 when StatCounter started tracking the numbers.

Hopes of finding AirAsia flight 8501’s black boxes were raised on Wednesday after divers and an unmanned underwater vehicle spotted the missing plane’s tail in the Java Sea, the first confirmed sighting of any major wreckage 11 days after it disappeared with 162 people on board. Powerful currents and murky water continue to hinder the operation, but searchers managed to get a photograph of the debris after it was detected by an Indonesian survey ship, the National...

Whilst navigating your way through the murky world of black hat and white hat SEO techniques you may have come across another nefarious sounding term… negative SEO.

Is social media the path to a search ranking utopia? What does personalization have to do with it? Does Google+ matter?

A Google patent that might possibly be PageRank's replacement, including a hubs and authorities element, a topic sensitive scoring element, an on-site score, and a global score that the onsite score might be combined with.

Predicting the arrival of a new negative thread to the SEO world. Here is a case study presenting the facts and evidence of this new evil.

In 2014 we searched trillions of times. What do these searches say about us? Explore the Year in Search http://www.google.com/2014 and follow the conversation on #YearInSearch

WordPress' search function always suffers to keep up with the rest of the developments in WP, so here's a list of the best search plugins to replace it.

New search feature serves as a handy recommendation engine for places to go and things to do, if Facebook can fine tune the new service.

In this article I’ll take you through the basics of AJAX and we’ll create a very simple extension that pulls in search results using AJAX in the default Twenty Fourteen theme.

Many SMBs dismiss link building as something they don’t have time for. But, link building is necessary if your business is interested in search visibility.