In January Google rolled out a data refresh for Panda and further improvements to their algorithm.
In a post from last year (Finding high quality sites in search) Google explains that these types of changes are aimed at improving the rankings of high quality sites and lowering those for sites with poor quality.
In 2012 they have improved how Google Panda interacts with the indexing and ranking systems, integrating it further into their "pipelines.
SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) is designed to allow content owners and Governments to block internet access to websites containing unauthorised copyright material by obtaining a court order.
Payment gateways, internet service providers, search engines and advertisers would be forbidden from doing business with overseas websites which have court orders against them.
Wikipedia, Reddit and Boing Boing have all taken their sites offline in protest against the proposed act.
In 2010 Google was granted a patent called "Ranking documents based on user behavior and/or feature data" which it had originally applied for in 2004.
In the Google Search Playground there are a number of interesting projects to play with. My favourite today is the Search Globe.
As Born embark on a number of video optimisation projects we thought we'd keep you updated on any tips and pitfalls we encounter along the way.
Here at Born we are astounded by Google's latest surprise launch. We logged in to see which new features have been added to the upgraded Google Analytics and found one of the new options is real-time data.
In August Google published a post on their Inside Search blog which gave us a behind-the-scenes look at the process involved in their algorithm changes.
