Google Lens improvements ready visual search and AR for mainstream adoption
Better text recognition, lookalike search and real-time functionality are upgrades.
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Google asking dissatisfied searchers to submit questions manually in the search results
If Google doesn’t have content for your query, it may ask you to help content creators to make content that will eventually rank for your query.
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Google Assistant takes center stage at I/O, search takes a back seat
Search only mentioned twice in a nearly two-hour keynote that saw a long list of announcements.
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Google voice-enables movie-ticket buying with Fandango
Enhanced capability is likely a preview of many similar Google Assistant integrations to come.
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Google launches new Google My Business API, new dashboard to manage multiple locations
Now a single registered account on GMB will be able to manage an unlimited number of locations.
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Google involved in Supreme Court case that may change class-action damages awards
The question before the court involves ‘cy-près’ and whether it was OK for plaintiffs’ attorneys to allocate settlement money to their own law schools.
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Google announces new job posting guidelines & requirements
Google has officially updated its job posting guidelines and says if you violate those guidelines, your site can receive a manual action.
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Study: Google Assistant most accurate, Alexa most improved virtual assistant
While one new study on voice assistants compares the quality of different providers’ answers, the other drills into Google’s data sources for 22 verticals.
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Study: Responding to reviews can improve paid-search conversion rates
Better reviews would have meant 13,000 more local leads for businesses in the study.
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Hijacking Google search results for fun, not profit: UK SEO uncovers XML sitemap exploit in Google Search Console
SEO wins bug bounty from Vulnerability Reward Program, Google search team confirms the exploit no longer works
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Proposed EU consumer rules to force ‘marketplaces’ to reveal ‘default ranking criteria’
Penalties will be stronger, and there will be an individual right of action.
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Google stops showing zero search results for time, calculations & conversions
After only a week of experimenting with showing only a single answer, Google is putting that test on hold.
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Report: EU to ask Google, others to publicly reveal ranking factors
Proposed rules are designed to redress the “superior bargaining power” of the large internet brands.
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Google working to integrate AMP benefits into future open web standards
Standardization will allow sites to implement, and benefit from, AMP features without adopting the framework.
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Google Lens comes to Android devices through the side door — Google Photos
This indirect rollout of visual search is intriguing but awkward.
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Google selling Zagat to restaurant recommendations site The Infatuation
Google no longer needs Zagat as it once did.
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Multifaceted featured snippets begin rolling out in Google search results
Google updates the search results features with an expanded featured snippet targeting broad, nuanced queries
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German court: Google has no ‘duty to inspect’ websites for illegal content before displaying
The court held that Google can’t be held liable before being notified of a ‘clearly recognizable violation’ of individual rights.
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Law and reputation firms generate 21% of Right to Be Forgotten delistings, says Google
New report from Google digs into three years’ worth of data on removal requests and exposes the delisting criteria.
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Search outpaced social for referral traffic last year, driving 35% of site visits vs social’s 26% share of visits
According to a new referral traffic report from Shareaholic, 2017 was the first time since 2014 search owned a larger share of visits over social.
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