Google Shopping results in universal search drop 79% after shift to paid model

Following Google’s Shopping move from free to paid there has been a huge drop in the number of shopping results that are shown up in the organic/universal listings within Google.com Example of universal search   Searchmetrics produced a report showing that in January 2012 shopping results appeared in 20% of universal search integrations, however by…

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, pioneer of the internet wins the Queen Elizabeth Prize

Sir Tim Berners-Lee the British computer scientist and four others have been awarded the Queen Elizabeth Prize which comes with a £1 Million prize fund. The award has been given in acknowledgment for creating the foundations for the internet. Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) which oversees the Web’s continued development which outline the…

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BBC News receive a manual link penalty notification from Google

Last Saturday the world’s largest broadcast news organization, BBC News, received an unnatural link notification from Google. A BBC News representative posted in the Google Help Forums about the notification seeking advice on how to find and remove them:   I am a representative of the BBC site and on Saturday we got a ‘notice…