Google Now For iOS

The search giant Google who introduced Google Now app for Android devices last year, unveiled on Monday that its intelligent assistant app Google Now is available for iOS platform. According to Google, the features are exactly the same as Google Now on Android, except the upward swiping to launch the application which cannot be integrated to iOS running devices. The iPhone device users from Google Now can retrieve all the data from all the Google’s services like the Gmail account, Google calendar account, Google Maps, and everything which is connected to the Google account.
When Google Now was released for the first time for Android devices, it revealed a set of virtual cards based on your search results and your interest right from the weather report  to your favorite movie. Cards also responds to voice commands.

Google Now uses location when you are signed in to Google account which gives you relevant real-time information, even when you don’t ask for it. As per Google, when you search for one city often, it uses statistical data which shows that you like the city and displays you the score on a card within the app. Google Now can be used for flights alerts by notifying users as soon as flights are delayed, without having to sign up for any account. You can also find coffee shops and restaurants near your current location.

Your Rankings Drop Around May 15th? May Be Due To Link Networks Google Busted

On May 15th, Google's head of search spam, announced on Twitter that Google has taken "action on several thousand linksellers in a paid-link that passes PageRank network."

Google has done this time and time again, and we covered at least two previous cases of this. We do not know which link network - some are asking if SAPE links was hit again, but others are asking about a network named ghost. I am not sure. It seems like it may be several smaller networks.

One thing for sure is that around May 15th, many webmasters started to complain about ranking drops in WebmasterWorld. Here are some quotes:

Also, seeing a significant drop in ranks for a different domain I mentioned in another thread that I was using to test junk links. It's possible we could be seeing a penguin update.

I am also seeing a decent drop on the 14th which seems to be continuing today.

The complaints go on and on.

I am trying to figure out which network(s) were hit but I can't seem to nail it down to any specific one.

The Black Hat World forums are talking about it but no one is mentioning anything specific and concrete outside of some guesses.

Do you know which link network(s) were hit?

Forum discussion at Black Hat World & WebmasterWorld.

Update: We have a statement from ghost network about this:

Domain Age Plays important Role in Google search ranking

Is Domain Age Plays important Role in Google search Ranking ?

There are many questions to answers,such as I have a domain which is four years old i have not setup hosting for that. if i use that domain to launch website will that help me in rankings? if, no then what factors in domain age are considered by Google ? 

One SEO related question which is often asked throughout webmaster forums is how muchdomain registration age is important for SEO. The points behind this question include:

• well-established sites have old domain names, so by reverse logics, an old domain should mean that the site is well established;
• spammers register and drop domains quickly, thus logically spamming sites usually have newly registered domain names.