Matt Cutts has posted an article titled "Ten recent algorithm changes" on "Google Public Policy Blog". http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2011/11/ten-recent-algorithm-changes.html
Although the title suggests a list of ten changes to the search or index algorithm, only six seem to relate to that. Two seem to be about snippets. Two seem to be about non-English auto complete.
1. Cross-language information retrieval 2. Better page titles in search results by de-duplicating boilerplate anchors 3. Retiring a signal in Image search 4. Fresher, more recent results 5. Refining official page detection 6. Improvements to date-restricted queries
7. Snippets with more page content and less header/menu content 8. Extending application rich snippets
9. Length-based autocomplete predictions in Russian 10. Prediction fix for IME queries
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only #3 is really interresting and new. |
Yeah, I expected some real news for webmasters instead this is just a smokescreen. Google wants to show off how open they are while in fact they are not. |