The Secret To Staying Relevant With Authorship
At PubCon last year, Google’s Matt Cutts discussed big changes to the search results, many of which we’ve seen played out over the past several months. In his talk, he mentioned upcoming improvements to authorship results. A couple months later in December, Google confirmed it had…
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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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DoubleClick Search Adds Integration With Channel Intelligence For Product Feed Management
Google announced Monday that Channel Intelligence’s feed management and optimization capabilities will integrate with the DoubleClick Search Commerce Suite. Performics is piloting the integration for “a major retail client”. “We’re really excited to team with Channel…
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AdWords Top Movers Report Update: Now With Conversion Stats, Device-Level Segmentation
The Top Movers report debuted in AdWords last June to help advertisers quickly see performance changes in their accounts. It was helpful, but somewhat rudimentary with reporting on just clicks and cost changes. Today, Google announced that conversion d…
Out of Beta: Google Shopping Campaigns For PLAs Now Available Globally
Google began testing Shopping campaigns with a limited set of advertisers last year with the aim of streamlining the often cumbersome task of Product Listing Ad management. Today, after just over a 3-month beta period, Google is rolling out Shopping ca…
Backlink Clean Ups – Your Threats Are Empty So Drop Them!
With the day and age of backlink profile penalisation firmly in motion at the moment in terms of how Google are taking their battle for a better quality search engine to a whole new level, getting your backlink removal process correct is important, one email to the wrong people and
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NetVoucherCodes.co.uk Push Out ‘The Donkey Cutts’ Game Amid Claims of Negative SEO
Naturally there are going to be a high number of website owners that are less than happy with waking up in a morning to find that their website is facing the wrath of Google, whether that be through manual or algorithmic penalisation and today we have seen that one website
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Lessons From Google On Optimizing Your SEO
Dan Cobley, Google UK’s Managing Director, recently revealed that Google’s infamous 2007 “50 Shades of Blue” experiment involving ad links in Gmail increased revenue by $200 million a year. These results switched the balance of power from design-driven to engineering…
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Google Publishes Full Text Of EU Antitrust Agreement
This afternoon on its European Blog Google’s General Counsel Kent Walker exposed the full text of the company’s third-proposed and tentatively accepted antitrust settlement agreement with European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia. Almunia previously declined to make the full…
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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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Google: how big is it really?
We know Google is big. The biggest out there. But how big is it really? Best Computer Science Degrees took an in depth look.
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Google: how big is it really?
SES London Day 2 – Google Changes A lot! Hummingbird, Not Provided, Enhanced Campaigns: The Update #SESLon
Our SES London 2014 coverage continues. This session on day 2 is dedicated to the recent Google Hummingbird update and how this affects content strategy.
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SES London Day 2 – Google Changes A lot! Hummingbird, Not Provided, Enhanced Campaigns: The Update #SESLon
Google Showing Restaurant Menus In Card-Style Search Result
Google has started showing complete restaurant menus in its search results when a query specifically looks for menu information. We think Allie Brown was the first to spot this when she shared the results of a search for “jones brunch menu” on Twitter. For that query, Google begins the…
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Google In Trouble Again Over Racist Search Suggestions In UK
Is Google Suggest (autocomplete) simply a mirror held up to society; or is it a product that needs to be censored and regulated to protect us from potentially offensive and objectionable content — even defamation? In the latest row over Google Suggest, the company has removed racist and other…
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Google Moves Ahead Of Exxon To Become 2nd Most Valuable US Company After Apple
Bloomberg.com reported today Google has moved ahead of Exxon Mobile Corp to become the second most valuable company in America following Apple. According to Bloomberg, Google’s market capitalization totals $393.5 billion, representing less than a billion more than Exxon’s $392.6…
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Advanced SEO Analysis – Part 1: SEO Research & Wisdom Of The Crowd
A couple of years ago, I was invited to speak at the SMX Advanced conference in Seattle on the topic of SEO and competitive intelligence. It is an area of SEO I’m passionate about, not only because it is one of the most difficult things in SEO to scale and do right, but also because […]
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How Google Glass Will Change Search — And What It Means For You
Last week, Google officially announced that Glass will be made available for purchase to the general public by the end of the year. The impending launch of Glass is exciting, but it does present some new challenges for search marketers. Given the differences between how Google Glass handles search…
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Google’s “Olympic Charter” Logo Stands Up To Russia’s Anti-Gay Legislation
If you had any doubts over how Google feels about Russia’s legislation against gay “propaganda,” just go the Google home page. The company has started what will be a string of special logos for the Olympics with one that includes a quote stressing that the official Olympic Charter…
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With Susan Wojcicki Heading YouTube, Google SVP Sridhar Ramaswamy Takes The Reigns Of Ads And Commerce
With today’s news that Google ads veteran Susan Wojcicki has is now heading YouTube, Google tells Search Engine Land that Sridhar Ramaswamy will lead the ads and commerce team. Ramaswamy and Wojcicki, who’ve both shared the title of SVP, Ads & Commerce, have been jointly running the…
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“When Do The Olympics Opening Ceremonies Start?” You May Be Surprised Which Search Engine Has The Best Answer
I didn’t realize how hard it would be, but yesterday I wanted to find out more about the Olympic opening ceremonies and when they would start. NBC, which is broadcasting the games in the U.S., appears to have nothing on its official website about the ceremonies or what time they’ll air…
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