Google’s Data Highlighter Supports 6 New Data Types
Google has quietly added support for six additional data types to the data highlighter rich snippet markup tool they introduced back in December. Google initially launched a visual rich snippet markup tool in December to allow less tech-savvy webmaster…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Domain Clustering To Change Again; Less Results From Same Domain
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a new video about a new change coming to Google’s search results related to the diversity of the results being displayed. Matt said that Google is launching “soon” a new change that will make it less likely to see results from…
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“Organization Markup” Supported As Non-Google+ Way To Put Logos In Knowledge Graph Box
Want to have your company logo appear in Google search results, similar to how authors get to have their pictures displayed? Keep waiting. New “organization markup” support that Google has announced won’t do that, but it might be useful for putting your logo in Google Knowledge…
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“OK Google” — Hands-Free, Conversational Search Coming From Google
Google has allowed you to speak your search to it on the desktop and mobile devices for some time, but now it’s going to get smarter — talking back to you and continuing the conversation you started. Google shared details at its Google I/O 2013 developer event today and also in a blog…
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Google Local Results Drops “More Results Near…” To “Improve” Local Search Experience
Google has quietly dropped yet another search feature, this one is related to local search results within a search on Google. Google has removed the “more results near…” link on local search results for queries with local intent. For example, if you search for [pizza] on…
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Google Testing Search Results Without URLs
Google is testing yet another user interface change – this time by not showing the URL of the search results on the page. @tecnonetblog tweeted that he spotted this test and posted images of it on Twitter. In the images below, you won’t see the URL, which is now green followed by an…
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Google Downplays Google+ With Updated Authorship Snippet?
Google has quietly changed the user interface for how they display the authorship snippet in the search results. The largest difference is that they removed the “more by” link that linked to additional stories written by that author. The other changes include that now clicking on the…
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Google Pulls Related Searches Filter Due To Lack Of Usage
Google has quietly removed the “related searches” option from the search tools menu within the Google search results page. When Google launched search options in October 2009, the option for “related searches” appeared on the left-hand side under the “standard…
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