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Google recently announced a new cog in its paid search advertising machine - sponsored local search listings. The new feature, aimed primarily at small, local businesses with limited advertising budgets, allows business owners to leverage their Google Local Business Search listings and show up in the coveted map results on search engine results pages (SERPs).

Some noteworthy features of this new program:

• Businesses will be billed a flat monthly rate, so ongoing management is less necessary.
• Businesses will be ranked based on category and physical proximity to the searcher.
• Businesses will have the option of a built-in call tracking service.

Currently the program is only available in the San Francisco and San Diego. Whether local paid search prices are linked to AdWords pricing also remains to be seen.

The market share for search engine has been shifting lately as many of the large players in the search engine industry are attempting to refocus many of their key product offerings.  Microsoft's Bing search engine recently grew from 9 percent market share,  to now a market share of 10.7 percent.

Google grew nearly 3 percent in the same time period.  This places Google's search market share to almost 65%.  This dominant share has kept Google as the leader in the search engine industry.  

If you would like to know more about search engines and how they work, contact The Search Engine Guys, LLC at 800-267-1704. 

Google has recently announced that it has increased the size of the search box that is on its homepage.  Google's Vice President of Search Products made the announcement on a blog shortly before the change took place.  The change was decided on after a variety of factors and influences showed that it would be a good choice for the company. 

Google believes that the increased size of the text box helps to emphasize that Google is focused on "searching".  This type of focus on "searching" is one of the reasons that Google has maintained such a large market share for search engines.

If you would like to know more about search engine optimization, contact The Search Engine Guys, LLC at 800-267-1704. 

Google keeps its algorithms for ranking websites firmly under wraps. However, the company just revealed its methods for choosing which news stories to publish on Google News. Even explaining the way it works, however, Google shows some contradictory rules. According to a video released by Google, there are four basic rules used to rank news stories.

The algorithm attempts to immitate consumer behavior as closely as possible. To do this, it looks for new stories with established citations. It also gives more weight to local sources but prefers trusted sources. Striking the right balance seems to be the key to a highly ranked news story. This also applies to the search engine, for which Google has not and likely will not reveal its algorithm.

If you would like to know more about search engine optimization, contact The Search Engine Guys, LLC at 800-267-1704.