Google Glass Diary, Part 4: Local Search & Navigation
Remember that first Google Glass video? It was published a little more than a year ago and gave the world its first glimpse at what Google had in mind for Glass. Even though Google described it as “an early concept video,” you can clearly see that local search and navigation was a key…
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Google Voice Search Coming To iOS, Chrome For Android Gets An Update
Google released a couple of new UI features with the latest Chrome update for Android yesterday and announced that voice search will be coming to Chrome for iOS “soon”. Android Updates With the Android update, the long search URL box is gone and search queries in Chrome display in the…
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Report: Google To Bid For Waze — To Shut It Down?
According to a just-published Bloomberg report Google is preparing a bid for Waze. Earlier this month rumors indicating Facebook was in late-stage acquisition talks with Waze for roughly $1 billion appeared online. Other parties (Apple, Microsoft) may …
Penguin 2.0 Losers: Porn Sites, Game Sites, & Big Brands Like Dish.com & The Salvation Army
Google’s fourth Penguin update — what the company is calling Penguin 2.0 — hit last night, and less than 24 hours later we’re already getting a first chance to look at what sites might be considered “losers” in terms of search visibility. In a nutshell, the list…
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“My Photos” — Google Now Lets Find Your Google+ Photos Within Search
Google now lets you search your private photos and the photos your friends on Google+ share with you. All you need to do is search on Google for keywords such as [my photos] or [my photos sunset] to bring up matching photos. You can even search for your friend’s photos such as [danny’s photos…
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Still Seeing Post-Penguin Web Spam In Google Results? Let Google Know.
Google’s next generation Penguin update is now live and webmasters and SEOs are carefully assessing how this update has impacted their web sites. Google is assessing things as well, how this has impacted the search results, search quality and searcher satisfaction. Google’s head of…
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Google Penguin 2.0 Has Landed – War on Spam Continues
The much anticipated Google Penguin update has finally become a reality following confirmation that the latest generation of the algorithm update has been rolled out throughout their search engine results pages and it seems to be causing a stir. Last n…
Penguin 4, With Penguin 2.0 Generation Spam-Fighting, Is Now Live
The fourth release of Google’s spam-fighting “Penguin Update” is now live. But Penguin 4 has a twist. It contains Penguin 2.0 technology under-the-hood, which Google says is a new generation of tech that should better stop spam. Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam,…
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Site Command Limited To 30 Results? Google Says A Temporary Domain Clustering Bug
Over the past day or so, we’ve been seeing reports that some of us can replicate ourselves, where the site command (i.e., site:www.domain.com) in Google was limited to only showing 30 results. The rumors were that with the recent domain clustering change Google pushed out this week has…
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Why You Should Be A Whore With Your Business’ Meta Data
Yesterday I talked about my initial thoughts on Google’s new Local Business Data Highlighter. Tyler Bell of Factual was quick to point out an important point: [View the story “Cheeky Google” on Storify] If you want to have the best chance of ranking for local queries in Google, you should definitely use the tools they […]
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Does Flagged E-Consultancy Link Indicate Where Penguin is Going?
There are signals that a new Penguin Update is coming and the signals say they might very well be targeting guestposts.
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Does Flagged E-Consultancy Link Indicate Where Penguin is Going?
How To Use Google’s Local Business Data Highlighter…So Far
Google’s new Data Highlighter for Local Businesses is definitely worth checking out for anyone trying to goose their local rankings. I have found it to be a bit buggy and it’s a new tool, so proceed with caution. Here are some basics on how to use it along with some tricks I have figured out […]
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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…
High Court awards Interflora damages in Google AdWords trademark row
In a case that seems to have gone on forever – it seems that the high court have taken the dramatic step of awarding Interflora damages in the long running case against Marks and Spencers – something that may have wider repurcussions for Google and the wider paid landscape as a whole. Justice Arnold ruled […]
High Court awards Interflora damages in Google AdWords trademark row
In a case that seems to have gone on forever – it seems that the high court have taken the dramatic step of awarding Interflora damages in the long running case against Marks and Spencers – something that may have wider repurcussions for Google and the wider paid landscape as a whole. Justice Arnold ruled […]
High Court awards Interflora damages in Google AdWords trademark row
In a case that seems to have gone on forever – it seems that the high court have taken the dramatic step of awarding Interflora damages in the long running case against Marks and Spencers – something that may have wider repurcussions for Google and the wider paid landscape as a whole. Justice Arnold ruled […]
High Court awards Interflora damages in Google AdWords trademark row
In a case that seems to have gone on forever – it seems that the high court have taken the dramatic step of awarding Interflora damages in the long running case against Marks and Spencers – something that may have wider repurcussions for Google and the wider paid landscape as a whole. Justice Arnold ruled […]
Google extends footprint into RTB display – launches Open Bidder RTB platform
Its interesting to see history almost repeating itself, within the display market as the Search Engine behemoths Google, Yahoo and Microsoft continue their war in other areas. Despite the fact that display advertising certainly pre-dates search, the co…
Google Glass Diary, Part 3: How Search Works On Google Glass
There are seven voice commands built in to this first “Explorers” edition of Google Glass. Two of those six are search-related: “google…” and “get directions to….” The others are “take a photo,” “record a video,” “send a…
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Google Notifies Sprint Of Spam Penalty; Seeks Advice In Google Help Forums
The latest large brand to be hit with a user generated content spam penalty notification is Sprint, the large U.S. wireless communications company. Similar to Mozilla’s penalty and BBC’s penalty, Sprint was penalized for user-generated content spam on a portion of their site that was…
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