Voice agents and interfaces will require many new marketing strategies

Marketers are only now getting a glimpse of the many approaches that will be required for the many kinds of voice interactivity.

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How do you optimize content for a voice-first world?

Want to know how to optimize your content for voice search? Contributor Sherry Bonelli shares how to incorporate smart SEO tactics to increase the chance of being heard.

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Google Assistant adds new media capabilities ahead of HomePod release

You can now wake up to a favorite playlist and use voice to pick up where you left off with Netflix shows.

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Survey: People becoming less inhibited about using voice search in public

Texting is the most common use case for voice, and men use voice search more than women, according to new data from Stone Temple Consulting.

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Google beefs up mobile shopping results for the holidays, adds more product info & buying guides

Google has also released search trends around Black Friday and Cyber Monday-related search queries.

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How machine learning levels the SERP playing field

Contributor Kristopher Jones explains how SEOs should be changing their practices to keep up with trends in the way Google evaluates web pages.

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What marketers need to know about Google assistant and Google Home

Voice search is growing, and Google is investing heavily in products that utilize this technology. Contributor Joe Youngblood discusses these products and their implications for marketers.

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Google Upgrades Conversational Search On Its Mobile Apps

Conversational search on Google’s mobile apps got an upgrade today, as the company announced a few new voice commands that are specific to travel planning. Basically, the app is smarter about knowing where you are (at a hotel, for example), letting you complete actions by voice (i.e., making…

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Ray Kurzweil’s Job At Google: Beat IBM’s Watson At Natural Language Search

If Ray Kurzweil is right, computers will be smarter than humans 15 years from now. It’s called “technological singularity” and a big part of his job at Google is making sure that vision becomes reality. Kurzweil, an inventor and futurist that became Google’s Director of…

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Googling The Weather: From 20% Project To Sophisticated Query Analysis

Millions of us have asked Google to play weatherperson. In order to get an answer to one of our oldest and most basic questions, we type a variety of words and numbers — city names, neighborhoods and ZIP codes, plus words like “weather,” “forecast” or maybe…

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The Brave New World of SEO: Beyond Websites

We hear it regularly – the death knell tolling for SEO. In the past several years, we’ve been bombarded by a barrage of change in organic search, from Penguin to Panda to Hummingbird, from inbound link penalties to [not provided]. Let’s face it: the only constant in search is…

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Google Scientist: We Want To Be Able To Respond To A Query Like “Book Me A Trip To Washington, DC”

Will the day come that Google can successfully respond when you tell it something like, “Book me a trip to Washington, DC” — walking you through all the queries and answers needed to complete such a complex request? Will the day come when we’re using devices that only offer…

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Google Voice Search Coming To iOS, Chrome For Android Gets An Update

Google released a couple of new UI features with the latest Chrome update for Android yesterday and announced that voice search will be coming to Chrome for iOS “soon”. Android Updates With the Android update, the long search URL box is gone and search queries in Chrome display in the…

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Google’s Impressive “Conversational Search” Goes Live On Chrome

The “conversational search” that Google demonstrated at last week’s Google I/O conference is now available to users of its Chrome browser, and it’s a significant leap in how we use search engines. I’m 17 years now into writing about search, and I’ve seen all…

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