How Google adress the spam reports

Ever wondered how Google deals with Spam ?. How they prioritise the sites, block them, handle the queries, etc. No ?. Nothing to worry here, Google published a video which explains how they prioritise spam reports.

The spam report form asks for the queries, resulting page, website url, keywords, etc so that Google can calculate the number of users who are exposed to spam site on a daily basis for the target query along with the list of related queries.

In the below video Mattcutts explains more on this

Google increases its Search box size

Google which primarily focuses on the search market for its business has made a small change to its home page and its search results pages. It has increased its search box size in a view to help its users to view larger text when they type so that they can see their query more clearly. Google also uses a larger text size for the suggestions coming below the search box, making it easier to select one of the possible refinements.

Google Search box before the change:

Google Search box after the change:

Currently Google Ranks in #5 position for the keyword "search" in its SERP's. With this change lets see whether it can increase its place to #1 :)