Google Surveys 360 Replacing Google Consumer Surveys
Google announced yesterday that they are launching Google Surveys 360. It was previously called Google Consumer Surveys…
Google’s 18th Birthday Doodle: When Is Google’s Birthday
Google has a fun Doodle, aka Google logo, for their 18th birthday today. It is a global Doodle, unlike last year where their own birthday was trumped by the NFL.
This Doodle leads to the question [when is google’s birthday]…
Google Chrome: Make Page Mobile Friendly Button
Joy Hawkins posted a screen shot on Twitter of mobile Chrome giving her the option of making a web page mobile friendly when it is not. She when to an article and at the bottom of the Chrome browser on her Android device it said “make page mobile-fri…
Google Analytics Working On Real Time Reporting Fix; Here Is A Workaround
Yesterday we reported that Google Analytics real time reporting feature was not working for many webmasters and marketers. No worries, Google is now aware of the issue and promises a fix will be out within 24 hours or so…
In Rare Interview Matt Cutts Talks About His Challenges At Google
It has been rare for Matt Cutts, the former search spam guardian at Google, who went on a leave a while back and was…
Google To Test Webmaster Hangouts Over YouTube Live With Slides Q&A
As you know, Google scheduled their last few hangouts using Google+ Hangouts and now…
Rand Fishkin Tells Us When & How To Interpret Google’s Statements
Much of what I cover here are the statements made by Google. Some in the community have issues with how Googlers respond to SEO related questions. Some have issues with how those statements are interpreted. And some have issues with how one interpre…
Google Schedules Last Few Webmaster Hangouts Using Google Hangouts
As you all know, I am a big fan of the Google webmaster hangouts mostly done by John Mueller. We learn a lot of new tidbits from there and also start a bit of controversy after covering things he may or may not mean to say…
United Airlines Employee May Have A Role In Matt Cutts Helping Webmasters With Google
The last company I would have thought been any type of influence on Matt Cutts wanting to spend time helping webmasters with their Google questions would have been United Airlines.
But in a Quora thread, Matt Cutts, who is now with the U.S…
25,000 Google Engineers Commit 16,000 Code Changes Per Day
Google’s John Mueller shared on Twitter a story at ACM named Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository.
It says that of the Google employees, 25,000 Google software developers have access to some or all of the Google code repo…
Google+ Celebrates 5th Birthday
So according to a Google+ Google engineer, Ivan Yudhi, it is around the fifth year birthday for the launch of Google+…
Google Launches AMP Validator Web Tool
Google has announced that they launched not just a chrome extension to validate your AMP pages are correct but also a web validator version…
Matt Cutts Temporarily Joining The Pentagon’s Defense Digital Service
Matt Cutts, who joined Google in January 2000 and lead Google’s web spam efforts, announced on his blog he is leaving Google for a short period of time to help the US Digital Service department…
Google: Weather Tracking Tools Are Not Statistically Relevant
Friday’s Google+ Google hangout, John Mueller said at the 22:40 minute mark that Google feels that the SEO weather tracking tools are not using a statistically relevant sample…
Google Hiring A Webmaster Trends Analysts; You Can Be The Next John Mueller
Google is looking to hire a new Webmaster Trends Analysts. Webmaster Trends Analysts are those Googlers who help webmasters with questions and communication…
Google Japan Holding Their Own Google Dance
Google announced on the Webmaster channel on Google+ that the Google Tokyo office is holding their very own version of the Google Dance…
Google Feedburner Stats & Emails Stop Working For Days
Google runs a product named FeedBurner, it helps publishers manage their RSS feeds including distribution services, analytics and more around RSS. I use it here but when Google acquired them in 2007, I was nervous. Since then it has been working pret…
Mother Of Autistic Child To Google: Google Gifted My Child
I spend a lot of time here complaining about Google, the search results, their penalties, their issues and so forth. But Google does a ton of good. Can you imagine living without search…
Gary Illyes: We’re Google Spokespersons – It’s Our Job
I find it funny that I often hear people saying on Twitter and other places that Gary Illyes, John Mueller…
No Google Penguin 4.0 On World Penguin Day
Today is officially World Penguin Day, I am not joking, see worldpenguinday.com. So of course…