The need for speed: Google dedicates engineering team to accelerate development of WordPress ecosystem

Google’s partnership with WordPress aims to jump-start the platform’s support of the latest web technologies — particularly those involving performance & mobile experience. And they’re hiring WordPress experts.

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Google ch-ch-ch-changes. How they’re affecting publishers and SEOs

Is Google’s relationship with publishers and SEOs deteriorating? Columnist Kristine Schachinger discusses the state of this long-standing love-hate relationship and shares her thoughts on what this might mean for all concerned.

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Will He Ever Return? Head Of Google’s Web Spam Team Matt Cutts Extends Leave Into 2015

The head of Google’s web spam team, Matt Cutts, says that his leave from the company has gone so well that he’ll be continuing it through 2015. Cutts shared the news today in a note added to his original blog post from July about going on leave, saying: When I went on leave, I wanted […]

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Udi Manber Moves To YouTube As Head Of Search

Udi Manber, a longtime Google search executive, has been shifted over to YouTube where he’ll lead search efforts on Google’s super-popular video sharing/viewing website. The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal in an article about executive changes at YouTube. A Google…

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Google Management Lessons Book Coming From Eric Schmidt

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and former Google SVP Jonathan Rosenberg have written a new book called How Google Works. Not yet published but available for pre-order, it’s a wide-ranging discussion of corporate management drawing upon the lessons the two men learned over a decade at…

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Head Of Google’s Web Spam Team Matt Cutts Is Going On Leave

Google’s Matt Cutts – who holds the title of “distinguished engineer” — is taking a break from his duties as Google’s chief web spam fighter. Cutts has announced on his personal blog that he’s taking leave through October. It will be the longest break Cutts…

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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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DeepMind Buy Another Google “Moonshot” Of Sorts

Re/code offers some additional insight into the $400+ million acquisition of artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepMind that was reported last week. The people at DeepMind will apparently work with the search team at Google but not exclusively: Or a…