Rubik’s Cube Invention Celebrated With Google Logo To Mark The Puzzle’s 40th Anniversary
Google went all out today to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Rubik’s Cube, giving the classic 80′s toy its very own interactive logo on the site’s global homepage. Doubling as digital version of the toy, the Rubik’s Cube logo will most likely prove to be a major…
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Playable Rubik’s Cube Google Doodle: Can You Solve It?
When you arrive on Google’s home page, rather than Google’s logo or colors, you’ll see the Rubik’s Cube. Click on it to begin solving it yourself. A ticker in the corner keeps of how many moves you have taken in an attempt to solve the puzzle.
Google “Mapping” Real World With Incredible Precision For Self-Driving Cars
A fascinating article in the Atlantic appeared this weekend. It’s mostly about Google’s self-driving cars and how they operate technically. But it’s also about something much bigger: how Google is now effectively “crawling” the real world as it has crawled the web for…
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Doodle Equality: In 2014, Google Features Women In Special Logos Nearly Half The Time
If you haven’t noticed, the Google Doodle team — which creates those special Google logos — has been making up for lost time in 2014, adding significantly more women to the number of historic figures featured on Google’s various regional and global homepages. Now, nearly…
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Yahoo Likely To Slip Below 10 Percent Search Share Next Month
When comScore releases its “May 2014 U.S. Search Engine Rankings,” we’re likely to see Yahoo’s market share slip below 10 percent. Today (in April) it recorded a 10 percent share, down 0.1 percent from March. Microsoft’s share was up 0.1 percent and so was…
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SearchCap: Bing Snapshot Expands, How “Right To Be Forgotten” Works & More
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Expands Snapshot With New Food & Drug Entities Bing is getting smarter today with the addition of food- and drug-related entities to its library of…
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Bing Expands Snapshot With New Food & Drug Entities
Bing is getting smarter today with the addition of food- and drug-related entities to its library of facts. The new at-a-glance information for these searches will appear in the Snapshot area on the right side of Bing’s search results. In some cases, like the hamburger search shown below, the…
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Baidu Hires Andrew Ng, Google’s Lead “Brain”
Chinese search giant Baidu has stolen away the head of Google’s “deep learning” project, dubbed “Google Brain.” Andrew Ng is an artificial intelligence expert, Stanford professor and founder of online learning company Coursera. Google Brain is a machine learning…
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Google Maps Pokémon Winners Win Anything?
Remember April Fools this year where Google had a Google Maps Pokémon challenge and you had to catch and find all the pokemon, 151, to win…
Google AdSense Magazine Ads
Google announced a new ad format for Google AdSense display ad units named magazine ads.
So instead of the display ad looking like a banner ad with animation or various popping colors, magazine ads are very minimalistic…
Google: If Content Isn’t Changed, Manual Actions Won’t Be Removed
An interesting Google Webmaster Help thread has a webmaster who has a manual action, he said he removed the content, and even left the page blank but the manual action won’t go away.
Google’s John Mueller explained why in an interesting way…
Google Updates Google Places Adds Manager Access & Social Features
Google’s Jade Wang announced on Google+ and Google Business Help forums that they have upgraded the Google Places bulk users to add social features and multi-admin functionality.
(1) Social Features: Each location in upgraded and verified accounts wil…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: May 16, 2014
This week in search, Google says that there is no update going on even though a lot of things have been going on. Google is now forced to remove…
3 Key PPC Metrics Are Lying To You. Find Out How
When it comes to PPC, metrics are everything. We consume ourselves in pouring over numbers and analyzing our accounts down to the smallest detail. However, it turns out we are being misled by the data we rely on the most. We’re too quick to take our figures at face value without thinking…
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The Ultimate Entrepreneur’s SEO Checklist for 2014
How can entrepreneurs survive and swim the SEO sharks? Here’s some advice and top tips for business leaders looking for the ultimate entrepreneur SEO checklist for 2014, plus how to screen for social media fakes, phonies, and posers.
Top Five Local SEO Myths — And Truths
There seems to be no end to the range of declared “SEO truths” for local mom and pop shops. Search Engine Optimization strategies that work for the big brands differ from those that work for small, local players, so it’s no wonder that so many local marketers end up confused about…
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Search In Pics: YouTube Slide, Google Landscaping & SEO Gingerbread Hearts
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Google Switzerland’s Honeycomb: Source: Google+ Google Dublin’s…
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Google Places Bulk Management Tool Integrates New Google+ Feature
Google announced new updates to its Google Places bulk location management tool this week, including a new Google+ social feature. From Googler Jade Wang’s announcement in a Google Product Forum: Each location in upgraded and verified accounts will have social features automatically enabled….
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Flickr Makes Creative Commons Image Search Easier
Flickr has quietly rolled out a change to its search interface that makes it a lot easier to find images that are licensed through Creative Commons. There’s a new “License” dropdown menu that shows at the top of the search results page, as shown above. It brings Creative Commons…
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PPC Management: Your Past, Present & Future
Don’t get stuck in the mire of the present and always putting out fires within your account. PPC managers need to reside in the future, past, and present simultaneously in order to get the full scope of their campaigns and optimize them successfully.