Facebook & YouTube Are Top Sites With Content Removed From Google Under “Right To Be Forgotten”
Google is now sharing details about Right To Be Forgotten removals in a new section of its pre-existing Google Transparency Report area. The latest numbers show that Facebook, ProfileEngine.com and Google’s own YouTube are the top three sites to have content taken down through the new…
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Study: 60 Percent of “Right To Be Forgotten” Requests Denied
Reputation VIP operates the Forget.me website intended to handle Google and Bing “Right to Be Forgotten” (RTBF) requests. Using three months of data, the company has released a study on RTBF’s impact in France, the UK and Germany. There was a smaller, separate study on Spain. It…
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Nokia’s Here Maps Come To Android Phones (Sort Of)
Nokia’s Here Maps, which power maps on Windows Phones, has released a beta version for Samsung Galaxy Android phones. It’s not available through Google Play, though presumably it will be in time. Nokia’s hardware/handset division was sold to Microsoft but Nokia retained the Here…
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Google (Now) Beats Siri And Cortana For Direct Answers — Study
Stone Temple Consulting (STC) published a study in which it compared mobile answers to “3086 different queries” on Siri, Google and Cortana to determine how each performed relative to the others. Google was the winner with more direct answers and more complete information. Eric Enge who…
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Google May Add Mobile User Experience To Their Ranking Algorithm
At Search Marketing Expo East, Google engineer, Gary Illyes talked a lot of user experience and that webmasters really need to focus on that. Over the past week or so, I asked Google about this and tried to understand why Google stressed this point so …
Google Now Reminds You To Pay Your Bills
Google announced that you can now search Google for when your bills are due and in addition, Google Now will place reminder cards in your Google mobile app as a reminder as well. You can search or speak your search for [show me my bills] or [my bills d…
Bing Shows What’s Playing At The Movies, In Remake Of Google’s Own Film Carousel
Bing has a new way of showing you what’s playing in your local theater, a “carousel” format that lets you browse what’s playing. If you think you’ve seen this before, you have. It’s how Google already does it. The Movie Carousel A search for something like…
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Google Toolbar PageRank Finally & Officially Dead?
In October 2013, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts implied we would likely not see another Google Toolbar PageRank update before the year end. Well, by accident, Google updated Toolbar PageRank in December 2013. Since then, we have had no Toolbar PageRank updates. Google’s John…
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New Google Eye Tracking Study Shows The Downfall Of The Golden Triangle
A new Google eye tracking study published by Mediative shows how the evolution of the Google search results from 2005 to today has resulted in searchers looking outside of the golden triangle. The golden triangle was coined back in 2005 based on a stud…
Google Mobile Warnings For Adobe Flash Sites Expand Worldwide
Google’s Pierre Far announced this morning that they are expanding the mobile Flash warnings searchers get when searching Google and finding a search result that leads to a site made mostly in Adobe Flash. The warning was first introduced back in July and today has started to roll out…
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Google’s “In The News” Box Now Lists More Than Traditional News Sites
Google has confirmed that new “In The News” box appearing in some of its search results now lists content from more than just the traditional news sites. Discussions at Reddit, blog posts, videos and more from non-news sites may turn up. Earlier, Search Engine Land reported how content…
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Google Releases Video Series On Taking Your Local Business Online
Google’s Maile Ohye, a well-known personality in the SEO space, has published six-videos adding up to about 30 minutes, containing advice on bringing your local business online. Maile said this is the same advice that Googlers would give “our friends and family” and now they are…
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Bing Starts Showing Full Song Lyrics Right In Search Results
While SEOs debate Google’s recent addition of structured data in its search results, Bing is making a similar — and perhaps more significant — change to its search results: Full song lyrics are now showing on Bing’s search results page in the US, and Bing says it plans to…
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How Will Google’s Continued Efforts To Display Content Directly In Search Results Impact SEO?
Last week, Google officially rolled out Structured Snippets, the search giant’s move to show snippets of relevant data directly in its search results. According to Google, the content being displayed is powered by its Knowledge Graph, as well as other data sources. As Search Engine Land news…
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Google: Penguin Refresh May Come As Early As Next Week
Google’s Gary Illyes, Webmaster Trends Analyst and Search Quality Engineer, said at Search Marketing Expo East that Google may be launching a Penguin algorithm refresh sometime next week. This is not just a refresh, but a large re-write of the algorithm that took Google almost a full year to…
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Celeb Lawyer To Google: Block Nudes Or Pay $100 Million
As reported by several media outlets, an LA-based attorney representing “over a dozen female celebrities” whose photos were hacked and stolen in the recent iCloud nude photo scandal has threatened Google with $100 million in damages if the company doesn’t immediately block or…
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Moz: Google’s New Quick Answer Box Now Showing 98% More Often
According to a Moz tracking study the new formatted quick answers box you find in Google for queries like [what is seo] is showing up 98% more often than a week ago. Overall, general answer boxes, including stock quotes, weather forecasts, box scores a…
To Avoid Liability, Google Limits German News Content To Headlines
German news and magazine publishers are determined, one way or another, to get Google to pay them for their content. They’re not upset about the content appearing in Google News or search. They want it to appear – they just want Google to pay for it. Google doesn’t want to pay….
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A New Click Through Rate Study For Google Organic Results
Advanced Web Ranking has released a study showing fresh data on the click-through-rate from Google’s organic search results. The data was taken from Google Webmaster Tools Search Queries reports from large accounts back in July 2014. On average, 71.33% of searches resulted in a page one…
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Google On How They Know When To Slow Or Stop Crawling Your Web Site
Today at SMX East, Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst, Gary Illyes shared with the audience two technical ways Google determines when GoogleBot, their crawlers, should slow down or stop crawling your web site. One of the more important factors with SEO is to ensure the search engine crawlers…
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