This week Google were granted a patent pertaining to including synonyms in their search results.

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Wolfram|Alpha has announced a number of improvements to its well regarded and groundbreaking search engine. For those who haven’t used Wolfram|Alpha before, it’s a search engine with a difference – it doesn’t just search the internet for information already present on the internet, it actually answers questions based on a huge dataset of information.

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Microsoft is again pushing deep into hallowed apple turf with its new, free, Bing App for the iPhone. This new addition, available from the iTunes, has some useful features such as voice recognition and location aware searching and map information.

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Google Chrome's new Quck Scroll feature provides improved search functionality boosting Google's bid to increase chrome users.

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Google has recently rolled out some more additions to their Suggest feature of Google Search. Results for common searches, such as the weather, will be displayed automatically without requiring the user to press enter.

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With increasing competition in web marketing and optimisation it is crucial to optimise quickly and effectively. This Cozy Digital blog post looks at what optimising and marketing tools could be crucial to success in 2010. Read this full article >>>

Google has just presented another Cozy Digital and refinement to the way it reports search results to its users.

Announced yesterday on Google Blog , though not yet available to all searchers, Google is including recently posted information from sites such as Twitter and Google News within the search results. Read the full article >>>

Yesterday Matt Kelly, associate editor of the Daily Mail, claimed that chasing high rankings in search engines and following SEO advice has lead to the dumbing down of news and suggested that online news outlets need to change their approach and begin putting high quality journalism back as their primary focus.

Websites are all about content, no matter the purpose or topic, it’s the content that attracts new users and retains old ones. This content comes in many different forms, from text and images to newer more cutting edge technologies such as video.

With all this information flying around, it’s easy to get caught up in the idea that your site needs content at all costs – surely a website put together quickly, full of content, with many pages is better than a smaller site with bespoke content, right?

Yesterday Google announced that they are going to allow content providers to limit the number of pages that searchers can view for free.  After these free views have been utilised searchers clicking on headlines in Google will be presented with registration pages.  In this article I consider whether this will have a positive or negative impact for  Google, its users and the news providers.