Google Images Germany Switches To Framed Previews
Google Image search back inJanuary 2013, changed their design to show a preview of the image, directly in the Google Image search results, behind a black bar.
Google Germany seems to have dropped that feature. Via Martin Ice Web in the WebmasterWorld…
Bing Predictions: Bing Predicting 2015
Bing is very into their predictions, it has been pretty solid at predicting a lot of outcomes on a lot of events in 2014. So for the end of 2014…
Google News To Offer Their Own Newsletter To Publishers
Google News will be publishing a newsletter for publishers every now and then. The first one should be coming soon.
Stacy Chan from the Google News team posted in the Google News Help forum about it…
Google Wants Non Secure (HTTP) Sites To Have Warning
Google Chrome is submitting a proposal to change the behavior around how browsers mark HTTPS sites as secure but HTTP sites as nothing.
They want HTTP sites to specifically carry a warning label that it is not secure. Kind of how when you go to an HT…
Karolina Kruszy�ska Hangs Up Her Google Spam Fighting Gloves
Karolina KruszyÅ”ska, a Google spam fighter who focused on Polish spam and was the face between Polish webmasters and Google, is leaving the Google webspam team and going into a completely different space…
Google AdWords Editor v11.0.1 Fixes CTR Reporting
Google quietly announced on Google+ that they issued a new version of the AdWords Editor…
Google Breadcrumb Snippets Remove Clickable Hyperlink
Google seems to have dropped the feature to click on the breadcrumb links within the search results snippet. For example, here is an image of a snippet in the search results that displays the breadcrumb:
Back at some point in time…
Google Tests Images In Mobile Search Result Snippets
Yesterday on Search Engine Land I reported how some users were seeing image thumbnails in the mobile friendly Google results, within the search results snippets. I received a screen shot from an iOS user.
This morning…
Google Local Pin Verification Scams Via Postal Mail?
There is an interesting response from Google’s Jade Wang in a Google Business Help thread.
The issue was, a person received a verification code via snail mail from Google Business Local, in order to verify a business on Google Maps…
GoogleBot Does Not Use SPDY For Crawling
Google’s John Mueller answered a question in Stack Exchange about if GoogleBot uses SPDY for crawling the web.
The question:
When SPDY is available for a site, does Googlebot use it…
Google Now: No Internet Connection Issue
Over the past couple months, many Google Now users on Android have been complaining that their Google Now cards are not always loading due to an error that says “no internet connection.”
There is a bunch of threads about this…
Google Maps Adds Google Cardboard Integration
In case you missed it, Google handed out cardboard to their Google I/O attendees last event. But this little piece of cardboard let you really discover what was not around you. You put them on and you can see a virtual reality like never before…
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Google Poll: Do You Want Us To Call Out Your Technical SEO Issues Publicly?
Google’s Gary Illyes posted a poll on Google+, which currently has only 70 votes…
Google Panda Updates Go On Holiday Vacation?
It has been a while since we found much shuffling around Google Panda, which is not normal being that it most recently has been updating at least every few weeks or so…
Google’s Freebase To Close After Migrating To Wikidata: Knowledge Graph Impact?
Google acquired Metaweb back on July 16, 2010, which powered Freebase. Freebase is one of the sources of data Google uses to power their Knowledge Graph. Many SEOs were able to manipulate…
Did Google Shut Down Google News In Spain?
Last week, Google promised to shut down Google News in Spain after a new Spanish law required them to pay licensing fees for content included in Google News.
Google has changed the Google News home page in Spain…
Control Your Home (Nest) With Google Now Search; Real Task Completion
The day has come where you can not ask Google to trigger some sort of action in your home.
It starts with Google’s acquisition of Nest, where now you can control the temperature in your home by saying…
Painter, Wassily Kandinsky Gets Google Doodle On 148th Birthday
Today, on Google’s home page, worldwide, is a special Google Doodle, Google Logo, for painter, Wassily Kandinsky.
Wassily Kandinsky would be celebrating his 148th birthday today…
Google AdWords Ad Copy Countdown Widget
Google announced yesterday a new countdown widget that easily enables advertisers to place countdown times within their ad copy dynamically.
This will allow you to create a sense of urgency for customers to buy now versus later…
Google Search 2014 Trends & New Google Trends
Google announced their top searches for 2014, something they do every year – with an emotional video to recap those top searches.
We got Robin Williams, World Cup, Ebola, MH370, ALS, Flappy Bird, Conchita Wurst, ISIS…