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Google has decided to not allow people to use its new visual search tool, Google Goggles, to identify people for fear of a privacy backlash.

Microsoft’s search engine Bing has taken the next step in an “arms race” with its rival Google by rolling out a slick new maps feature. It is an upgrade of Bing’s previous map tool, and allows people to seamlessly zoom…

this means is that when you search with Google, it will provide results that are aimed at higher relevancy to the individual user, as opposed to relevancy for the average person.

Google Goggles, released to Android users on Monday, allows you to search on your cell phone simply by snapping photos: You point your phone’s camera at a place or object, and it delivers detailed information to you within seconds.

Yahoo! and Microsoft have finalised the terms of their search agreement, five months after announcing the deal.  The two technology companies have sealed the terms of a landmark search deal which will see Microsoft’s Bing power Yahoo!’ search engine. In…

The URLs for your pages may seem like a jumble of words, letters, numbers and symbols, but their construction can have a significant impact on the success of your site. A search engine friendly URL is one that contains as…

Not many companies will undertake their site’s redesign from a search engine optimisation point of view. In most cases, redesign is prompted by a company-wide branding change or a need for a fresh look. Many of the reasons for redesign…

Google is to limit the number of news articles users can read for free on its website. The search engine said it was changing its First Click Free programme so that readers would not be able to look at more…

if Google does decide to pursue the search engine’s terms of service, a site accessing rankings through these tools could be penalised. For the sake of a little extra time to check it manually, it’s not really worth it. Ranking checking is one more complexity in the complicated world of search engine optimisation.