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’s machine learning now writes featured snippets descriptions

Google recently launched sentence compression algorithms to help surface the best answers for your questions from publisher content across the web.

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The four pillars of the future of SEO

What does the future of search engine optimization have in store for us? Columnist Pratik Dholakiya looks at recent trends to explain the direction our industry is headed in.

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Paging Dr. Google: Google rolls out symptom-related direct answers on mobile

Google says it worked with a team of doctors, experts from Harvard Medical School and the Mayo Clinic to curate information.

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Don’t trust Google to structure your local data

As Google increasingly incorporates direct answers and other types of featured snippets into search results pages, columnist Andrew Shotland points out that businesses may want to get smarter about marking up their pages.

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How to enhance your Google Knowledge Graph result (case study)

So your company finally has a Knowledge Graph panel appearing on branded searches, but the information is incomplete or incorrect — what can you do? Tony Edward explains a few ways to edit this information and shows how one method worked for him.

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Google “Send To Your Phone” Comes To Local Knowledge Graph Search Box

Now, you can use the “Send to your phone” feature directly in the Google web search results, not just in the Google map search results.

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A Layman’s Visual Guide To Google’s Knowledge Graph Search API

Columnist Barbara Starr delves into the recently released Knowledge Graph Search API and discusses how SEOs might use this data.

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Google Introduces Candidate Cards In Search For Presidential Election Season

Google is giving Republican and Democratic candidates a privileged place in search in 2016. The company has launched what it says is an experimental feature that will create a prominent placement for the candidates’ own messages and content in a horizontal carousel in search results. This is…

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