Google Adds Zip Code Matches In Knowledge Graph Carousel
Google has added zip code matches and lookups to the knowledge graph section of the search results. If you search for [new york, ny zip codes] in Google, you will be presented with all of the zip codes in that location. This loads a carousel that lets …
Using Adobe Flash For Your Web Site? Google Mobile Results Will Issue Searchers A Warning.
Flash, Adobe’s multimedia based web site technology, is not a friend of mobile devices or search spiders and now Google has decided to step up their campaign against such sites using the technology. Google announced that starting today, they will be issuing warnings to searchers when their…
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Google’s Quality Rating Guide Leaked Again; Here Is Version Five
Google’s Quality Rating Guidelines document has been leaked once again! Version 5.0 was leaked a few days ago, where Google has reportedly completely revamped the guidelines. Jennifer Slegg has documented most of the new guidelines on her blog. You can also read the full new 160 page…
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Leaked Documents Show How Yelp Thinks It’s Not Getting Screwed By Google
Yelp may once again feel Google is robbing it of its fair share of search traffic, with a study that’s been leaked to TechCrunch to prove it. A close read of that study actually shows that it proves the opposite — or at least, that it’s certainly not as damning as it sounds….
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“America” Movie Filmmaker Sends Legal Demand For Google To Fix Showtime Results
The Hollywood Reporter writes that Dinesh D’Souza’s movie, “America” is not coming up properly in the Google search results and as a result, they are getting complaints that the movie is not available in local theaters near movie-goers. Dinesh D’Souza’s lawyers sent a letter…
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Head Of Google’s Web Spam Team Matt Cutts Is Going On Leave
Google’s Matt Cutts – who holds the title of “distinguished engineer” — is taking a break from his duties as Google’s chief web spam fighter. Cutts has announced on his personal blog that he’s taking leave through October. It will be the longest break Cutts…
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Google Drops Profile Photos, Google+ Circle Count From Authorship In Search Results
Google’s John Mueller announced they are making a major change in the search results around authorship. Specifically, Google is dropping the profile photo and circle count from the search listings where authorship is assigned to a web page. Google said that the “click-through behavior…
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Google’s Knowledge Graph Is Showing Step By Step Instructions: Here Are Some Examples
Earlier this year, Google began offering much more detailed answers in the top knowledge graph box. Shortly after that was introduced, Google also began expanding those answers into a bulleted list format. We’ve been seeing these bulleted lists, especially in “how-to” like queries…
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Google Knowledge Graph Adds Phone Numbers With Hangout Integration
Now, if you search for your favorite local restaurant, bar, business and the like on Google; Google may show you a phone number in the knowledge graph top box that is clickable. When you click the phone number, it will dynamically open up Google Hangou…
Study: Google Universal Results Show Up For 85% Of All Searches: Videos In 65% & Maps In 1%
SearchMetrics released a study on the penetration of Universal Search results in the Google search results. By Universal Search we mean the way Google “blends” results from “vertical” search engines like Google Images, Google Videos, Google Maps or Google News into its web search listings. The…
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Google To Warn Searchers When A Mobile URL Redirects To The Homepage
Don’t annoy mobile searchers. That’s the message behind a new warning that Google is showing in mobile search results on smartphones. On the Webmaster Central blog, Google alerted webmasters late yesterday that it will let smartphone searchers know if it thinks a website has a…
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Google Opens “Right To Be Forgotten” Form For EU Citizens
Google has taken a big step forward with complying with the European Union’s new “Right To Be Forgotten” that was established after a court ruling earlier this month. The company has established a new form allowing those in the EU to request takedown of URLs they dislike. How The…
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Google Authorship Goes Down Again, Twice In One Week
Google Authorship is once again down for the count, second time within a one-week period. Authorship is the image you see next to the Google results of those who wrote the article, blog post or news story. Normally, Google’s search results are sprinkled with them, but now, no search results…
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Google Begins Rolling Out Panda 4.0 Now
Google’s Matt Cutts announced on Twitter that they have released version 4.0 of the Google Panda algorithm. Google’s Panda algorithm is designed to prevent sites with poor quality content from working their way into Google’s top search results. But didn’t Google stop updating us…
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Official: Google Payday Loan Algorithm 2.0 Launched: Targets “Very Spammy Queries”
Google has confirmed they have released a new algorithm update to their Payday Loan Algorithm update over this weekend. This algorithm specifically targets “very spammy queries” and is unrelated to the Panda or Penguin algorithms. A Google spokesperson told us: Over the weekend we began…
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Google Search Results Snippet Overlay Descriptions May Use DMOZ Description
About a year ago, Google introduced a new feature in the search results that give you quick overlays on the search result so that you can learn more about the site you are about to click on before you click on it. Early on, the results of the data in the snippet came from Wikipedia […]
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Those Google Ranking Shifts Are Not A Google Update, Google Denies Any Algorithmic Changes
Over the past week or so, there has been a lot of various signals across the search community that Google’s algorithms and rankings were updating, so much so that people were bracing themselves for a major Penguin or Panda-like algorithm announcement from Google. Google never made the…
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New Google Sports Knowledge Graph May Include NBA Video Recaps
Search for [miami heat] on Google and you may not just see information about scores, schedules, standings and so on, but you may also see a video hosted on YouTube from the NBA with a game recap. Google is now showing video thumbnails in the NBA knowle…
Google’s Matt Cutts Regrets Not Acting Faster On Paid Links & Content Farms
In Google’s Matt Cutts latest video, he answers a question I personally asked about what he regrets, what decision he regrets making in the past related to webspam. My question specifically was: Was there a key moment in your spam fighting career where you made a mistake that you regret,…
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Google Search App Adds Reminders For Where You Parked Your Car
Android Authority reports Google’s latest update to the Android version of the Google Search App has a new feature to remember where you parked your car and then give you directions on how to go back to that location. Parking at large venues, malls, or big cities, can often get confusing at…
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