Google Drops “Translated Foreign Pages” Search Option Due To Lack Of Use

Google has quietly dropped the “Translated Foreign Pages” search filter from the Google search options menu. Google tells us the option was removed due to lack of use but they say they are still committed to making the web available to as many people, in as many languages as possible….

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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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Study: Delaware Least Likely State To Use Google, While Yahoo Is More Popular In Southern & Midwest States

Using data from more than 35 million search queries performed in 2012, SEO company WebpageFX  set out to determine search engine market share by state for Google, Bing and Yahoo. According to their study, Google dominates across the country, taking 70 percent or more of search engine market share…

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Across From Google I/O, Microsoft Runs The “Bing It On” Challenge

Coming out of Google I/O at Moscone Center in San Francisco yesterday, I did a double-take. Was that Microsoft pitching its “Bing It On” challenge against Google directly across the street. Yep. “Put the science back in computer science: test your Google bias inside” read a…

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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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Bing Rises Above 17% Search Market Share As Google Slips [comScore]

Bing’s U.S. search market share has hit another all-time high, passing 17 percent for the first time. It gained at Google’s expense, as the search giant slipped six-tenths of a percentage point last month. That’s from comScore’s April 2013 qSearch report, just out today. For…

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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 Authority Boost: Google’s Algorithm To Determine Which Site Is A Subject Authority

Yesterday, we covered and summarized the ten future Google SEO changes coming to Google’s search results by the end of this summer. But today, I wanted to pull out one point where Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, said Google is working on an algorithm to give authorities in a…

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Google Penguin Evolved – Do we need to be concerned?

Do you feel luckyPete Young takes a look at the future Penguin update and whether we need to be concerned. With Matt Cutt’s releasing a video on future things to come yesterday, it has given everyone more insight into what we could expect.

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Google’s Latest Easter Egg Brings Atari Breakout Game To Image Search

Add this to the big list of Google easter eggs: do an image search for “atari breakout,” and you’ll be able to play the classic video game online, right in your search results. In fact, the image search results become the bricks that you have to eliminate as you play the game….

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Google Alerts Tip – Works Better If You Have a Time Machine

And in other breaking CitySearch news, Darren Waddell of RadiusIntel just sent me this awesome Google Alert he received this morning: It links to this article from 2007. For all of you marketers recommending that your clients use Google Alerts to monitor what people are saying, be sure to include that it works better if […]

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Enhanced Campaigns: New ‘Set Bid Adjustment’ Button Added For Bulk Edits

To make multiple bid adjustments for locations and dayparts without having to click into each target individually, Google has added a new “Set bid adjustments” button to the Web UI. The button is available when you are in the “All online campaigns” view, as well; so, you can…

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Yahoo Announces New Search Tools & Upgrades In Their Continued Battle To Win More Of The Search Market

Just a day after the story broke that Yahoo wanted out of their deal with Microsoft, Yahoo’s senior vice president of search Laurie Mann commented on new search tools and upgrades that are scheduled to launch over the coming months. According to an article in Bloomberg News, some of the…

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Why Vertical Search Is Threatening Google’s Reign

Until recently, Google has dominated search. It has been the main stomping ground for consumers looking to buy products, visit sites, or conduct research. However, the nature of search is changing, especially on mobile devices. My own search behavior i…

No, Publishership Isn’t Coming Soon To Google Search To Join Authorship

There are expectations in some quarters that publishers will soon be able to have their logos showing up in Google in the way that authors can have their pictures appear. But, Google says there are “no plans” for some type of “publishership” to go live similar to the way it…

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