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Baidu vs. Google. How Baidu kicked out Google from China.

Baidu vs. Google. How Baidu kicked out Google from China.

As we all know, China’s most popular search engine isn’t Google, it’s Baidu. Baidu was created in 2000 and at the beginning of 2010 it has about two-thirds of the Chinese market. It claims to be the most advanced Chinese-language search engine. Let’s look at some of the factors that contributed to Google’s failure in China (apart from well-known legal [...]

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Posterous vs. WordPress- Battle of Two Titans. Pros and Cons.

Posterous vs. WordPress- Battle of Two Titans. Pros and Cons.

Having a blog on Posterous (for about a year now) and being an exceptional fan of WordPress at the same time, i decided to write a very short comparison, or actually pros and cons of using both of them. WordPress has been an amazing tool for many years and its developers make a great job making it even better from [...]

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How to improve WordPress Page Load Speed? A 3-Step Solution.

How to improve WordPress Page Load Speed? A 3-Step Solution.

Should the amount of time it takes for a page to load in a browser influence search engine rankings for pages? According to Google it should. Matt Cutts  announced last year (in November 2010) that the company had indicated that their search algorithms would be  changed again as the search engine will factor in how quickly a web page loads [...]

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Google SERP- Eye Tracking

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During the launch of Google Coffeine, Google search results page changed many times so did our eye tracking in universal search. Before launching the universal search system (which blends listings from its news, video, images, local and book search engines among those it gathers from crawling web pages) the way we used to track search (our reading pattern) resembled an [...]

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Link Within Description in SERP, Google

Link Within Description in Google

Today I came across interesting results whilst checking rankings for one of clients. I typed “matrimonio roma” in Google.it and one of the listings had quite unusual description as it contained a link (not a breadcrumb nor sitelinks etc)… When I inspected the element, the link looked like: http://www.google.it/url?url=http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrimonio%23Il_matrimonio_nella_Roma_antica&rct=j&q=matrimonio+roma&usg=AFQjCNGWA5FtpbOchaPTnmGieSsOFmSqgw&ei=0DD8S7PSFeGN4gayxbi7Ag&sa=X&oi=section_link&resnum=15&ct=legacy&ved=0CF4QygQ The question is, how this description has been generate/ created? I [...]

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Light Social WP Plug-in, Now With Buzz This! Button

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