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Google To Secure Searches In Chrome 25 & Higher

Like Firefox 14 and Mobile Safari, Google is taking Chrome - their popular web browser, the SSL route by securing searches done within Chrome's omnibox.

The default behavior of searches done within Chrome will become secure and done over SSL...

Bing Adds 5x More Facebook Content to its Search Results

Bing announces it is now incorporating 5x more content from users' Facebook friends into its search results.

LinkedIn Answers To Close On January 31

LinkedIn spent most of 2012 introducing new products and features, but 2013 is starting with news that one of them is going away. In an email to members, the company says it’s going to close down LinkedIn Answers as of January 31st.

Google Patents The Mobile Search Blend

The United States Patent and Trademark Office recently approved a patent application from Google which forecasts a greater focus on mobile pages/versions in mobile search results going into 2013.

Google's First Panda Refresh Of 2013: Panda #24

Despite it being just five days from extremely strong signs of a Google update, which Google denied, Google announced yesterday on Twitter that they have pushed out a new Panda refresh.
This would make the 24th revision or refresh to the Panda update since launching in February 2011.

HTTPS Encryption Will Kill Organic SEO - And Make Google Richer | Social Media Today

last week, Inbound Marketing Software Company Hubspot put out a blog relating that about 55% of the organic search it gets per month is now encrypted; worse, Hubspot has seen this percentage steadily rise by about 4% each month.

Google Launches Streamlined Image Search

Like how Google Image Search works on a tablet? Good news, then. That simplified experience is coming to Google Images on the desktop. Out With The Old Currently, viewing an image through Google Image Search is a multistep process. You do the search, see several images and can hover to get a slightly larger thumbnail: [...]