Google’s Top Searches in 2016: Pokémon Go & iPhone 7 outrank Donald Trump, Prince & Powerball

The site released a variety of its top search trends — ranking everything from top searches overall to the most searched people and global news stories.

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Move over Amazon Echo & Google Home: Here comes Microsoft Cortana

Cortana will be baked into a new smart speaker from Harman Kardon to be released next year, potentially the first of many Cortana-powered devices.

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Bing’s top searches in 2016: Lady Gaga, iPhone 7 & video gamer DanTDM take top spots

While Bing ranked multiple topics — everything from top searched celebrities to tech trends — it didn’t share its most popular search term for the year.

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How and why the SEO tools industry should develop technical standards

Could SEO benefit from a collaborative effort to establish industry standards for SEO software? Contributor Michael King discusses the value this would have — as well as the challenges it would present.

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How Google may be slowing down AMP by not using direct links to publishers

What’s in a name? When it comes to AMP, a URL that’s not the publisher’s may not smell as sweet.

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