Google’s Pichai answers to Congress: The good, the bad and the frustrating
Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified in front of Congress this week on transparency and accountability, specifically around data. Here’s an overview.
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What people search for: Tools for trends
Seven of the top tools available to help you discover what people search for online: the most popular topics, keywords, and trending stories.
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TechSEO Boost: Machine Learning for SEOs
Machine learning and how to use it for SEO: automated image optimization, transcribing podcasts into json strings, mass meta description writing, and more.
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Dragonfly: 500+ staff sign open letter for Google to drop new Chinese search engine
More than 500 Googlers globally signed open letter on Medium calling for end to Dragonfly and for “transparency, communication, and real accountability.”
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An updated look at Alpha-Beta in a world of close variants
Google updated their exact match close variants to include implied words, paraphrase words and same-intent keywords. How does this affect Alpha-Beta?
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Why Wikipedia is still visible across Google’s SERPs in 2018
From queries about products and brands to celebrities and topical events, Wikipedia still features heavily across Google searches – even while our habits as search engine users change (with voice and mobile increasingly having an impact), and while Google itself works to make its results more intuitive and full of rich features. How does Wikipedia manage to maintain this visibility in 2018?
Why Wikipedia is still visible across Google’s SERPs in 2018
From queries about products and brands to celebrities and topical events, Wikipedia still features heavily across Google searches – even while our habits as search engine users change (with voice and mobile increasingly having an impact), and while Google itself works to make its results more intuitive and full of rich features. How does Wikipedia manage to maintain this visibility in 2018?
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Google and Facebook back Berners-Lee’s Case #ForTheWeb
Google, Facebook, Richard Branson, and the French government are among nearly 60 parties who’ve already signed on to participate in Tim Berners-Lee’s efforts to create a contract for the web.
Google and Facebook back Berners-Lee’s Case #ForTheWeb
Google, Facebook, Richard Branson, and the French government are among nearly 60 parties who’ve already signed on to participate in Tim Berners-Lee’s efforts to create a contract for the web.
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5 Marketing Dashboard Templates to Start Building Your Dashboarding Empire
How much of your time is spent on reporting? Here are five marketing dashboard templates you can use to streamline reporting.
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Google Walkout: What the ‘five real changes’ demanded by staff will entail for the search giant
Earlier today thousands of Google employees across the world walked out of their offices in protest against sexual harassment and discrimination. We take a closer look at what the ‘five real changes’ demanded by staff will entail for the search giant.
2018’s Google Updates and What We Believe Comes Next
Lola Michels from Koozai extracts her projections from this year’s Google algorithm updates and shares the dos and don’t for staying on top of digital developments.
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10 fun facts (and a typo) from the original Google paper by Larry and Sergey
Fun fact #1: “Wow, you looked at a lot of pages from my web site. How did you like it?” – people encountering a crawler for the first time. This and other quality snippets pulled from the original paper presenting Google in 1997.
Google’s PageRank algorithm, explained
In their original paper presenting Google, Larry and Sergey define PageRank like this: PR(A) = (1-d) + d (PR(T1)/C(T1) + … + PR(Tn)/C(Tn)). We dive into what that really means.
The end of Google+ after a data breach and how it affects us
Google has decided to shut down Google+ after discovering a data breach. How should marketers and SEOs react to the news?
Is hiding paid backlinks from Google actually possible?
Backlinks are a great way to boost your website’s ranking. Paid backlinks are a great way to get caught right in the unethical act. Here’s why you can’t get away with it.
Google data breach + Berners-Lee’s Solid — is the power shifting?
Yet another data breach–now from Google. We trace the trajectory of the WWW, Tim Berners-Lee ‘s recent post on Solid, and if the power will finally shift.
A cheat sheet to Google algorithm updates from 2011 to 2018
Google makes changes to its ranking algorithm almost every day. Some of them remain unnoticed, others turn the SERPs upside down. This cheat sheet contains the most important algorithm updates of the recent years alongside battle-proven advice on how to optimize for these updates.
Dragonfly: What we know about Google’s possible plans to re-enter China’s search market
Separating facts from speculation on recent reports of Google re-entering China’s search market. What do we know, and what can we reasonably expect from Google in China over the short and long term?