Latest Facebook Changes

| September 22, 2011 | 0 Comments

If you haven’t already noticed, the Facebook interface has changed in the past week. The change focuses on the news feed, specifically each users’ individual news feed. Now, stories that Facebook’s algorithms think matter to you will appear at the top of the page from the day before, along with more recent stories. So how exactly [...]

Bing Incorporating Facebook “likes” into Search Results

| May 17, 2011 | 0 Comments

In an effort to continuously keep their search engine on the cutting edge, Microsoft is incorporating several new Facebook social cues into its Bing search results. Microsoft is taking full advantage of its partnership with Facebook in order to cut into the search market share of Google. Bing has been incorporating Facebook “likes” into its search results, [...]

Google Tweaks Search Results

| February 25, 2011 | 2 Comments

On Thursday Google announced that they were tweaking their algorithm that determines it’s search engine results in order to punish “low quality” websites. It is assumed that this move by Google will hurt “content farms” the most. Reference websites like eHow.com are often criticized for being full of useless content, with the sole purpose of [...]