Search Technology

Entity Search Results

Entities. They’re nothing new in SEO, but over the last year, I’ve been ruminating on how moving into entities should fundamentally be …

Methods for Evaluating Freshness

To set the stage, yesterday Google announced a new “Freshness” Update, which had an effect on 35% of all queries. Barry wrote …

Phrase Based Indexing and Semantics

Google sometimes does phrase matching even if the search query isn’t in quotes. They’ll also include words that are traditionally considered search …