The Bing app for the iPhone and iPod Touch should now offer users a much-improved experience.
Tags: Bing, from-the-bing, from-the-start, location, lot, make-the-bing, Microsoft, performed-some, Search, search histories, then-it-went, usability tweaks
Google is looking to improve upon its own internal SEO efforts. The company has created what it calls an “SEO Report Card,” designed to improve the user experience and visibility of some of its own properties. The company says it aims to identify potential areas for improvement in Google’s product pages, which could help users find them more easily in search engines, and fix bugs that annoy visitors and hurt the pages’ performance in search engines. Google is making this report card publicly available though, and that means other businesses and webmasters can study it themselves, and use what they learn to improve their own sites. It may come as a surprise to some, but Google appears to have a great deal of improvement to do when it comes to search engine optimization, the irony of course coming from the fact that Google operates the world’s most dominant search engine. “Simple steps such as fixing 404s and broken links, simplifying URL choice, and providing easier-to-understand titles and snippets for our pages can benefit both users and search engines,” says Google’s Search
Tags: businesses, companies, different products, engine optimization, from-the-start, Google Search, irony, report, Search Google, SEO, simple steps
The back-and-forth over Street View in Germany has been fierce at times, with one Google representative recently hinting that the company intended to move forward as long as German authorities didn’t draft laws against the program.
Tags: addresses, confrontation, dwellings, forward-as-long, from-the-start, german, german authorities, googler, houses, michael-jones, raw data, Street View, their-dwellings