Panda News & Articles

At the giant search and social media conference Pubcon in Las Vegas, Google’s top Spam cop Matt Cutts said in his talk the company is getting out the knife again.  He reported Google is looking to discern “…what are the things that really matter, how much content is above the fold.”

You may remember the last time Cutts’ team went after low-quality content was with its Panda algorithm, also known as Farmer, that targeted content farms gaining top search hits on “shallow” content.

It's been a crazy week here in the Google world: Will the Internet giant win the FISMA battle against Microsoft? Maybe. Will Bing surpass Google search in 2012? Maybe. 

Earlier this year, Google (news, site) started dealing with content spam and low-quality sites in its search results by crowdsourcing quality control and by updating its algorithm. Initially rolled out in the US, the algorithm update is now gradually being rolled out to Google data centers in the rest of the world, and search analysts are reporting how the new algorithm affects sites depending on type and content.

New Bamboo, a software company that’s been developing solutions using the infamous Ruby on Rails since its conception, released Panda — a new Open Source platform designed for the easy uploading, transcoding and streaming of videos on websites.