Google penalizes Overstock for search tactics

By AMIR EFRATI Google Inc. is penalizing Overstock.com Inc. in its search results after the retailer ran afoul of Google policies that prohibit companies from artificially boosting their ranking in the Internet giant’s search engine. Overstock’s pages had recently ranked near the top of results for dozens of common searches, including “vacuum cleaners” and “laptop [...]

New look is permanent interface.

by the Google Apps team. The new look is now the permanent interface for Google Docs, Docslist, Spreadsheets and Sites. Major changes to your Documents List include – - The Upload button is now an icon rather than a text button. It shows an up-arrow coming out of a hard drive. – To access the [...]

Google Announces Panda Updates Will Resume in 2012

By Todd Bailey. Google announced via Twitter that Panda Updates have ceased for 2011 and will resume after the New Year.  Perhaps this is an early Holiday gift to webmasters that need to cultivate content and links on their existing webpages.  The last update came in November and all have been considered “minor” updates, each [...]

Ananzi and Mustek take Litte Leaps in special needs education

Ananzi, South Africa’s leading search engine and web portal, has joined with Mustek in sponsoring and installing computers in the Little Leaps school for special needs children. Little Leaps (www.littleleaps.co.za) is attached to Little Village Christian Nursery School in Centurion, and caters for the needs of children with communication disorders, and specifically autism spectrum disorder [...]