How Google Might Rank Image Search Results

Changes to How Google Might Rank Image Search Results We are seeing more references to machine learning in how Google is ranking pages and other documents in search results. That seems to be a direction that will leave what we know as traditional, or old school signals that are referred to as ranking signals behind. … Read more How Google Might Rank Image Search Results

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Google Podcasts App and Making Podcasts Easier to Find

Podcasts Can Be Hard to Find I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts lately. They can be fun to listen to while doing chores around the house, like watering plants, washing dishes, cooking meals, and cleaning up. There are podcasts on many different subjects that I am interested in. A good number about Search … Continue reading “Google Podcasts App and Making Podcasts Easier to Find”

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Google Podcasts App and Making Podcasts Easier to Find

Podcasts Can Be Hard to Find I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts lately. They can be fun to listen to while doing chores around the house, like watering plants, washing dishes, cooking meals, and cleaning up. There are podcasts on many different subjects that I am interested in. A good number about Search … Read more Google Podcasts App and Making Podcasts Easier to Find

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Google News Recommendations and the Google Knowledge Base

I’ve seen posts from SEO by the Sea show up in search results with an “In the News” heading above them, even though my site hasn’t officially been accepted in Google News. Some blog posts that have been given that “In the News” treatment have been criticized lately. See: Google does a better job with […]

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New Visual Search Photo Features from Google

These details come from an anonymous source who also gave us a bit more details on the project. The report states there will be a new feature integrated, allowing users to outline specific areas of the image in order to directly target their searches. In Google Goggles, one can only search the whole image, which … Continue reading New Visual Search Photo Features from Google

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Image Search and Trends in Google Search Using FreeBase Entity Numbers

Google is organizing more and more things in its index based upon entity numbers. I have a couple of examples for you that show how they are being used. It’s possible that you may have missed a reference to Freebase Entities in a Google Research Blog post from 2013. I missed it myself. The post … Continue reading Image Search and Trends in Google Search Using FreeBase Entity Numbers

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Google Media Consumption History Patent Filed

Google published a foreign patent at WIPO today that has an interesting perspective to it. When someone performs a search that involves a specific entity, their search may be influenced by the search engine’s knowledge of their past interactions with content involving that entity. For example, someone searches for “Justin Timberlake” and the search system … Continue reading Google Media Consumption History Patent Filed

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Google on Creating a Relevant Second Screen for TV

Google was granted a patent last week that looks like it might have been among one of the earliest patents filed by the company. It involves showing television programs (News Programs to be more exact), and showing web pages that might be relevant to the transcripts of the shows being presented to viewers. The details […]

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