Today’s Google Logo Marks The 66th Anniversary Of The Roswell UFO Incident With A Video Game

In early July of 1947, sightings of an unidentified flying object were reported, along with crash remnants found near Roswell, New Mexico. While a public information officer from the Roswell Army Airfield initially published a release on July 8, 1947 stating a “flying disk” had been…

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How to use Google+ to Dominate a Generic Mobile Search Result

businessman-on-a-skysc-featuredDominating a generic query in a mobile search is not impossible, and can drive lots of mobile traffic. Cindy Krum explains how you can use Google+ for that.

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Yes You Are being Spied On, But It’s not the Government we Should look at

james-bondPeople don’t want the government spying on them but at the same time tell the world everything about themselves.

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Google July 4th Logo Answers The Question: When is Independence Day?

Today’s Google logo celebrates this year’s Independence Day with an interactive image of an illustrated family of dogs road tripping across the US. Set on the background of a paper map like your dad may have used before Google Maps, stars highlight trip locations across the country to…

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Gianluca Fiorelli’s Super Search Update – June edition

GianlucaWhat’s been happening in Search this June? Gianluca takes us through the main points

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Gianluca Fiorelli’s Super Search Update – June edition

Google Logo Celebrates the 130th Birthday Of Franz Kafka

Today, Google’s logo celebrates the 130th birthday of one of the most influential authors of the 20th century, Franz Kafka. Born into a German-speaking family in Prague on July 3, 1883, Franz Kafka’s publishing career began with a number of short stories published in German literary…

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Google No Longer Powering Russian Internet Company Searches As Mail.ru Takes All Queries In-House

Russian Internet company Mail.ru Group released an official announcement that they will be handling all queries made by Search Mail.ru users from here on out. According to TheNextWeb.com, Google previously powered 60 percent of the searches performed o…

The Google Local Carousel & Local Directories

Logan“Nostalgia means the pain from an old wound…” – Don Draper When Google’s new Local Carousel came to a town near you a couple of weeks ago, I immediately envisioned the Don Drapers of local search in conference rooms around the country dramatically presenting their initial impressions. Of course at the end, instead of Duck […]

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Google Testing Larger News Photos In Search Results

Google Operating System reports Google is testing showing larger photos in the News OneBox Google web results page. Often, when you search for news related topics in Google.com, Google will show news results at the top, middle or bottom of the results. This is part of Google’s universal…

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Keyword Level Impression Share Data Now In Google AdWords

Google has added more granularity to impression share reporting in AdWords. Already available at the campaign and ad group level, search impression share data now available at the keyword level, You’ll find search impression share, search exact match impression share and search lost…

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Google Logo Kicks Off The 100th Tour de France

Today’s Google logo marks the commencement of the 100th edition of the Tour de France. Covering a total of 3,404 kilometers (2,115.15 miles), the multi-stage bicycle race runs from Saturday June 29 through Sunday July 21. The 22 teams competing in the 2013 Tour de France are comprised of nine…

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Friday Talk: Matt Cutts and Duane Forrester

Google’s Matt Cutts and Bing’s Duane Forrester got together on stage at SMX West 2013.

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Snowden Petition Blocked From Google? Like All Petitions, It Won’t Be When It Gets Enough Signatures

Search for [edward snowden petition] to find the petition filed through the White House’s Petition site, and you’ll see something odd. The petition has no description, because the White House won’t let Google crawl the page. But it’s not a move against Snowden, as some might…

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Bing Updates Deep Links Management While Google Displays Up To Ten Sitelinks

Microsoft Bing announced changes to the way they allow webmasters to manage their “deep links” in the search results, while Google has quietly added up to ten sitelinks for a navigational query. Bing Deep Links Update Vincent Wehren, Senior Program Manager at Bing Webmaster Tools,…

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Google Displaying Company Google+ Logos In Search Results With & Without Rel Publisher

Google is now showing Google+ logos and icons for company profiles in the rich snippets portion of their search results listing. Ross Hudgens spotted the Google+ icon displayed next to the search result for the company’s listing. Rel=publisher markup is not required for the logo to show up. I…

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KitchMe Launches Recipe Search Engine For Google Glass

KitchMe, a recipe and meal-planning website recently acquired by Coupons.com, has launched what appears to be the first recipe search engine and cooking assistant app for Google Glass. The app is free and currently available at kitchme.com/googleglass….

The Google Dichotomy – Authorship

I don’t blog much. Mainly because I believe in not regurgitating things that have already been said better by someone else. An approach that means (due to my very talented network of colleagues past & present) I’m usually the last one to turn up whenever anything exciting happens in the industry. However, sometimes I can […]

Study: Google Local Carousel Results Win 48% Of Clicks, While Only 14.5% Of Clicks Were On The Map

When using heatmaps to gauge interest levels for Google Local Carousel results, search marketer Matthew Hunt discovered that 48 percent of searchers surveyed clicked the Carousel results, while only 14.5 percent clicked on the map. Using the search term ‘Chicago Restaurants,’ Hunt asked…

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