How Google Enforces Category Diversity for Some Local Search Results
More Diversity in Search Results Earlier this year, we were told that Google was making an effort to make the search results we see more diverse, by showing us fewer results from the same domains in response to a query. Search Engine Land covered that news with the post: Google search update aims to show … Continue reading “How Google Enforces Category Diversity for Some Local Search Results”
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Google’s Mobile Location History
If you use Google Maps to navigate from place to place, or if you have agreed to be a local guide for Google Maps, there is a chance that you have seen Google Mobile Location history information. There is a Google Account Help page about how to Manage or delete your Location History. The location […]
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Google Giving Less Weight to Reviews of Places You Stop Visiting?
I don’t consider myself paranoid, but after reading a lot of Google patents, I’ve been thinking of my phone as my Android tracking device. It’s looking like Google thinks of phones similarly; paying a lot of attention to things such as a person’s location history. After reading a recent patent, I’m fine with Google continuing […]
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Ranking Local Businesses Based Upon Quality Measures including Travel Time
Can the amount of travel time someone might take to get to a place be a good indication of the quality of that place? That is the assumption behind a recently granted patent from Google. Travel time in the patent is referred to as a “time investment a person may be willing to make to […]
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Google May Check to See if People Go to Geographic Locations Google May Recommend
Google was granted a patent this week to enable them to check whether people are following recommendations in search results to visit geographical locations – to see how many people actually visited those places. And it’s probably good for many businesses to have Google recommending that people visit them. For example, people living near a […]
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How Google May Respond to Reverse Engineering of Spam Detection
The ultimate goal of any spam detection system is to penalize “spammy” content. ~ Reverse engineering circumvention of spam detection algorithms (Linked to below) Four years ago, I wrote a post about a Google patent titled, The Google Rank-Modifying Spammers Patent. It told us that Google might be keeping an eye out for someone attempting … Continue reading How Google May Respond to Reverse Engineering of Spam Detection →
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Do Search Click-Throughs Help Determine Whether a Page Appears in Google Search Results?
In a recent article at Search Engine Land we were told that Google Posts That Local Results Are Influenced By Clicks, Then Deletes That. It caught my attention, and had me investigating further. Patents Involving Clicks Influencing Search Results It made me recall three patents which described when clicks might influence whether or not pages … Continue reading Do Search Click-Throughs Help Determine Whether a Page Appears in Google Search Results? →
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How Google Finds ‘Known For’ Terms for Entities
Google finds terms and phrases to associate with entities that can be considered terms of interest for businesses, locations, and other entities. These terms can influence what shows up in search results and in knowledge panels for those entities. Consider it part of a growing knowledge base of concepts, entities, attributes for entities, and keywords […]
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Driving Directions vs. Reviews as Ranking Signals for Google Maps
In my college days, I cooked at some local restaurants (free meals made it an attractive option for a starving college student). One of the restaurants was in the center of town, at one end of Main Street, and it was a popular place for local residents…
How Google May Diversify Search Results by Merging Local and Web Search Results
Google has come under fire the last year or so from critics who claim that the search engine has been providing too many pages from some of the same domains in search results. It appears that this has had them looking at ways that they could provide mo…
Is the Future of Mapping Social?
My neighbor has run over my last two phonebooks, and rendered them virtually unusable. We share the same driveway, and it appears that running over phonebooks, and then backing up to make sure they are really dead has officially become a custom in Virginia, or at least in my neighborhood. It’s OK though, since I […]
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Google’s Query-Based Circles Patent
Are Google’s query-based social circles the answer to Facebook’s Graph Search?
Not too long ago, Facebook launched its Graph Search, which enables people to search for things like “My Friends who live in San Francisco,” and My Friends who like Surfing,’ and “Places my Friends like.”
Imagine if Google Plus allowed you to perform […]
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