Over the last couple of months, bloggers, critics and users made complaints on Google for bringing search results of poor quality, which the Internet giant takes as Web spam, defined as junk search results popping up when sites deceive Google Search to reach top ranking through ominous search engine optimization (SEO) methods.
In a post on The Official Google Blog, Principal Engineer Matt Cutts wrote, “A decade ago, the spam situation was so bad that search engines would regularly return …

A Google guru confirms that social networking greatly affects search engine results, an issue that left many Search Engine Optimization (SEO) groups dubious on its impact on the Internet.
Matt Cutts, popularly known for Google webmaster’s implementing guidelines and ramping up efforts against link spam, said on May of last year that Google Search algorithms did not consider social networking elements for searches conducted for certain websites; however, the US Internet giant changed its …