Agnes Martin Google Logo Celebrates Abstract Painter’s 102nd Birthday

Today’s Google logo marks what would have been the 102nd birthday of abstract painter Agnes Martin, adding another female to the list of women Google has honored on its homepage this year. Born in Canada, Martin spent much of her career first in New York City, and then New Mexico. She is best…

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Google Knowledge Graph Adds “Related Topics” Section

Alex Chitu noticed that Google’s knowledge graph has now added a “related topics” for certain types of queries. The example provided shows a search for [equilateral triangle shows a knowledge graph that also adds topics for equilateral polygon, square, regular polygon, and…

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Spring Equinox Google Logo Marks First Day Of Season With Blooming Flowers

After an especially long winter, today’s Google logo is a site for cold eyes, celebrating the much anticipated start of Spring with an animated illustration of flowers blooming. The logo starts with a white amoeba-shaped character holding a watering can on a blank screen. As the oddly-shaped…

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Google Voice Search Easter Egg Unlocks “Cheat Mode”

Googler Pierre Far has found a Google Easter egg  that opens up “Unlimited free Google searches” for everyone. According to Far’s Google+ post, doing a Google voice search for, “Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right” on his Android phone prompted the voice…

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Holi Google Logo Celebrates India’s Festival Of Colors On Google India’s Homepage

While many will see a St. Patrick’s Day logo on Google’s homepage today, Google India users will see a Holi logo to mark India’s spring festival of colors. Celebrating the arrival of spring, Holi events include a Holika bonfire on the eve of the holiday with singing and dancing….

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Saint Patrick’s Day Google Logo Marks The Holiday With Irish Claddagh Symbol

Today’s St. Patrick’s Day Google logo celebrates the patron saint of Ireland with a green stained-glass style illustration featuring a Claddagh symbol – two hands holding a crowned heart. From the village of Claddagh, Ireland the Claddagh, commonly seen on rings, represents love,…

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Bing’s New “Image Match” Button Helps Locate Images Of Varying Resolutions & Sizes

Bing announced today it is launching a new “Image Match” button, a feature that helps users quickly find alternative resolutions and sizes of a desired image. When viewing an image from the Bing image search page, users should see the “Image Match” button below the photo….

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Google Testing I’m Feeling Lucky Search Button Within Search Suggestions Drop Down

A reader sent us a screen shot of Google testing displaying the Google Search and I’m Feeling Lucky search buttons within the search suggest or Google Instant drop down menu, as you type. Here is a screen shot sent by the reader showing the search buttons directly in the search suggestions…

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Google Makes It Official: It’s New Search Results Look Live For All

A day after Google said the new look was still an experiment, it has decided that the experiment was good enough to make for an official change. Now everyone should be getting the new design. Jon Wiley, Google’s lead design for Google Search, said on Google+, “you may have noticed that…

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Google’s New Look Search Results: Still An Experiment

More and more searchers, SEOs, webmasters and advertisers are seeing the new Google design test we’ve covered here a couple times where the ads blend in more to the search results and the font size is larger and the underlined links are gone. Last night, at Search Marketing Expo West,…

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Now Official: Google Adds Restaurant Menus To Search Results

That Google menus experiment we told you about a couple weeks ago? It’s now official. But it’s only available in the U.S. at the moment. Google announced that it’s now showing restaurant menus as a OneBox-style answer at the top of its search results. It seems to be primarily…

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John Steinbeck Google Logo Showcases Author’s Work On His 112th Birthday

Today’s Google logo is a well deserved nod to American author John Steinbeck on what would have been the writer’s 112th birthday. The logo celebrates five of Steinbeck’s 27 novels: Grapes of Wrath, Canary Row, Of Mice and Men, The Pearl and Travels with Charlie. The Steinbeck logo…

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FOX Partners With Google To Allow Voting For American Idol On Google’s Search Results

FOX and Google have partnered to enable American Idol fans to vote for the finalists directly in the Google search results. That means you no longer have to text your vote, you can do it on Google.com. How does it work? Simple, you go to Google on your…

McDonald’s & Cadillac’s Sochi Olympics TV Ads Spark Nearly 500K Online Searches

Television advertising analytics firm iSpot.tv evaluated a number of key metrics for this year’s Olympic advertisers and found ads from McDonald’s and Cadillac resulted in the highest number of online searches within minutes of each brands’ spots being aired. Of the more than 250…

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