Matt Cutts Pipes in on Google Spidering Forms

At the exact same time (both at 10:50 am PST) Google announced it’s spider (Googlebot) was now indexing a variety of forms Matt Cutts jumped in on his blog with his perspective where raised a great point that hadn’t occurred to me. Essentially this new...

Google Now Fills Out Forms When Spidering

I am in disbelief. Less than 40 minutes ago the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog announced that Google can now fill out web forms and spider the resulting content. Previously this was not only not done by search engines but it was well known that such content...

Ask Claims it is Still Committed to Search

According to an interview Search Engine Watch’s Kevin Newcomb had with Ask spokesperson Nicholas Graham, the search engine is still committed to search and denies allegations that Ask is “dead”. In fact, apparently the search community overreacted....

AskEraser Goes Live at Ask

The issues surrounding online privacy have been a hot topic on the web lately, and Ask.com has taken the concern a step further with the introduction of AskEraser. Ask announced the launch on Tuesday in their official Blog. This new feature added to the Ask site...

Help Google Rid Search of Malicious Sites

Last week I wrote how Google had removed literally thousands of malware sites from its search results. (see Google Results Malware Free?) Shortly after that post, Google had put out a request to its users to help them fill in the gaps and completely rid the results of...