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Wolfram Alpha introduction webinar

Posted on 5th May 2009 at 4:10 pm by Manley

Stephen Wolfram is getting very close to the launch of the Wolfram Alpha 'knowledge engine'. Today he is chairing an interactive webinar of his engine so far.
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Mini SiteLinks appear on Google results

Posted on 2nd April 2009 at 9:50 am by Manley

Mini SiteLinks are appearing under results in the first pages of Google for a number of searches. Are these MSLs (which Google is identifying as oneline_sitelinks for now) a permanent feature and how do they affect your site?
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Wikia Search falls by the search wayside.

Posted on 1st April 2009 at 4:03 am by Manley

As of last night, Jimmy Wales has 'closed the doors' on Wikia Search, formally drawing a line under the failed community search offering.

According to Wales the engine "has not been enjoying the kind of success" which had been hoped for and he cites the current economic climate as a deciding factor.
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Why are my Google AdWords Ad Preview Tool results different to the main results?

Posted on 3rd February 2009 at 10:41 am by Manley

I have had a few queries regarding Google's AdWords Ad Preview Tool, specifically, why are the results displayed subtly different to those of the main results.

What causes this change and why?
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Google malware filter broken?

Posted on 31st January 2009 at 2:33 pm by Manley

Google's malware filter appears to have broken. Not only is this an issue for the most important player in search, but it could have a backlash on your brand, on Google's brand and looks set to cost the search giant millions of dollars.
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SEO Advent Calendar

Posted on 24th December 2008 at 12:42 pm by Manley

Every day of December is an SEO advent tip day with the LBi Netrank Search Advent Calendar!
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SearchWiki - part of the Google Search Algorithm?

Posted on 8th December 2008 at 4:33 pm by Manley

SearchWiki is being spammed a lot - is this spam just for the minority of users who actually view SearchWiki comments or is there an SEO golden goose to be found in Google's foray into social search?
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SearchWiki

Posted on 24th November 2008 at 9:37 am by Manley

Google has launched human editable social personalised search for logged in users, under the name SearchWiki.

What does this mean for organic search?
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Google SiteLinks search boxes revisited.

Posted on 12th March 2008 at 10:46 pm by Manley

Last week we were observing search boxes within Google SiteLinks.

Now that Google has announced that this feature is fully rolled out across Datacenters, it is worth looking at why some sites have them and whether they are a feature that is worth having.
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Google testing site search boxes within SERPs.

Posted on 4th March 2008 at 1:29 pm by Manley

For selected searches Google are inserting a site search input box within the SERPs.

This is only appearing for major organisations and even then, only those who have very distinct, unambiguous names.
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