Selling top search results, and failing to label the results as sponsored, were the common accusations.
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The top search bar includes two buttons on the right one to start a navigation, and one to bring up a list of places you've recently saved and shared.
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That unity idea also extends to the idea of browser searching, where you'll see both trending topics as well as immediate answers and visual thumbnails of the top search results.
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In a post Friday on Google's blog, Amit Singhal, a top search executive, said Google's Web "search algorithms, " which determine how websites are ranked in search results, would now take into account the number of valid copyright removal notices that Google receives for a particular site.
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Starting in 2007, Google began to raise its own search results in specialty search categories, Reback said, putting them at or near the top of search results.
Google made some internal adjustments and many of the sites disappeared from the top of search results.
In the beginning, Google had a lot of partners on top of search.
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Companies like Starbucks and Best Buy have been using the new platform which displays the promoted tweets at the top of search page results.
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As I reported earlier, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has begun his trip in China, with a stop by top Chinese search engine Baidu in Beijing.
But Ergo in Demand's Mr. Scholom says that by keeping mum, Google is hurting small businesses like his that can't afford to market their way to the top of search results.
That means that Webmasters don't just use links to point audiences to relevant content or goods and services they might buy--they also try to create links to float their site to the top of search results.
The cause of the dispute: After Taobao modified its sorting algorithm to favor those sellers with the highest ratings from buyers, some retailers cried out because their online storefronts no longer showed up near the top of search results.
According to Network World, some 22.4 percent of Google searches performed since June produced malicious URLs (such as fake antivirus sites or malware downloads) as part of the top 100 search results, as opposed to 13.7 percent in the second half of 2009.
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But Reputation Defender recently began offering users a subtler approach: hiding unwanted Web comments with a barrage of positive, Google-friendly content, either created by the company or dredged up from elsewhere on the Web and optimized to appear at the top of search-engine results.
Instead, keywords in that question triggered an ad for the Mormons on the top of the search results page.
Next month, February, is the top month for search traffic in Florida.
Some parents want names that are unique so their child will rise to the top of future search results.
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All this tells me is that you opted to pay them so you can get moved to the top of the search list.
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"If no one else has your name, your LinkedIn profile and blog will jump to the top of the search engine without much effort by you, " says Beal.
To keep the party going, songs can be queued via the top navigation through search, browse or SmartGlass integration, which connects a tablet or mobile device to the Xbox 360 console.
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Taking over the Web project himself, Klemm devoted five hours to it each day, battling for top billing on search engines so that people looking for fabrics are steered to Great Lakes' site.
Taking over the Web project himself, Klemm has been devoting five hours to it each day, battling for top billing on search engines so people looking for fabrics are steered to Great Lakes' site.
You can set priorities for Spotlight searches-- we mostly use Spotlight to launch apps and dial contacts, so we've got those listed at the top of our search results, but if you can order things however you want.
How does Google determine which new titles, and the more than 15 million books that have been scanned, float to the top of its search results pages: in the web search box and in the ebookstore.
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Similar to the way measurement conversions or flight prices pop up in a box at the top of your search results, Google will display the number of calories, fat grams and other key nutrition facts for everything from bananas to burritos.
Since Google ranks results based on the number of Web pages that link to them, cyber-criminals added thousands of links to their pages on forums and blog comment sections around the Web, pushing their pages to the top of the search engine's results.
Even if they can put your site at the top of the search engines fast, the method required to do so is risky and will likely put you at the bottom of the search engines the next time there is a Google update.
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The search box at the top of the screen lets you search for a place or a business, and the expanding information pane at the bottom of the screen shows relevant information, such as address, opening hours, ratings and reviews, images, directions and other information.
Grokker acts as a plug-in that sits on top of a search engine and, by reading tags written into the data with the XML software language, arranges the results of a search into a ring of spheres or an array of squares labeled to show each one's relationship.
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