Google’s mobile-first index is (still) months away
At SMX West, Google’s Gary Illyes said the company is still experimenting with its mobile-first index and doesn’t have an exact timeline for launch.
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Google’s new tappable shortcuts eliminate the need to search on mobile
Rolling out today on Google’s search app and mobile site, the shortcuts offer quick answers on weather, sports & entertainment info.
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Google thaws (a little) on defamation cases
Would-be-legal remedies for online reputation issues are still up in the air, explains contributor Chris Silver Smith, arguing that it may be time to amend the applicable legislation.
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Google receives search warrant for identities of everyone who searched crime victim’s name
If this overly broad warrant were duplicated in other jurisdictions, local law enforcement might use Google as a first stop in their investigations.
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Google launches new effort to flag upsetting or offensive content in search
Using data from human “quality raters,” Google hopes to teach its algorithms how to better spot offensive and often factually incorrect information.
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New, unconfirmed Google ranking update shakes the SEO world
The webmaster and SEO community, along with the automated Google tracking tools, all show strong signs that there was a Google algorithm ranking update.
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AMP — Accelerated Mobile Pages — rolling out to 1 billion more people in Asia
Baidu, Sogou and Yahoo Japan adopting the mobile framework.
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Google ‘related picks’ now showing under some top stories carousels
Google looks to show you more AMP top stories by adding a query expansion feature in the mobile search results.
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Google makes it easier to search for programming languages answers
Google can now handle queries containing sequences of 2–3 special characters.
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Google brings back emojis in the search results snippets for relevant queries
Google has brought back displaying emojis in the search results when the query thinks it is relevant.
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Can we machine-learn Google’s machine-learning algorithm?
As Google becomes increasingly sophisticated in its methods for scoring and ranking web pages, it’s more difficult for marketers to keep up with SEO best practices. Columnist Jayson DeMers explores what can be done to keep up in a world where machine l…
Google’s latest search feature serves up fun facts about animals, plants, fruits & vegetables
Adding the words “fun facts” to queries for animals, plants, fruits or vegetables will surface list of facts atop search results.
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Google featured snippets now often followed by the “people also ask” box
The “People also ask” gets more frequent and prominent placement in Google.
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Google: No comment on possibility of a Feb. 7 algorithm update
Did your rankings in Google get better or worse over the past week? Many webmasters and SEOs are noticing some significant changes in Google’s search rankings algorithm.
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Google’s ‘people also ask’ search feature officially gains dynamic loading
Google’s people also ask feature has gained a new way for searchers to explore topics in the desktop and mobile search results.
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The impact (and lack thereof) of Google’s mobile popup algorithm
Back in August 2016, Google warned that it would be releasing an algorithm to crack down on interstitials on mobile pages. Now that the update has been live for a month, columnist Glenn Gabe shares his findings on the impact.
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Data: Google monthly search volume dwarfs rivals because of mobile advantage
Google likely has 30+ billion queries per month across platforms.
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Google is testing a new way to report offensive Autocomplete suggestions
Feedback tool is currently in limited testing, but company hopes to launch it worldwide soon.
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Cool tricks to explore Google’s Knowledge Graph results, featuring Donald Trump
Whether you want to gain some insight into how Google’s Knowledge Graph works or just want to prank your friends, columnist Tony Edward shows some cool tricks for changing up the SERP display with URL modifiers.
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Google adds a new carousel to let you expand the search results
Google has added a new method for expanding your search results with a carousel across the top.
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