Google Chrome Beta Now With Hands Free Voice Search
Google Chrome announced that the beta version of the Chrome browser now supports completely hands free searching.
Just open a new tab and say “okay Google” and then speak your query.
This is being rolled out to English (U.S…
Google’s Matt Cutts Wants You To Send Him Examples Scraper Sites
Matt Cutts, Google’s head spam guy, posted on Twitter that he wants you to submit reports and examples of scraper sites or URLs that are outranking the original source.
He made a Google Doc form where you can submit the report over here. The form asks…
Google Now “Goodness” Comes To More Android Devices Via Google Now Launcher
Google announced on Google+ they are bringing the Nexus 5 feature of Google Now embedded throughout the device to other Android devices through the Google Now Launcher.
Google Now Launcher enables Google Now features natively throughout your Android d…
Ex-Googlers Explain Why They Won’t Give Up The Secrets To Ranking In Google
I spotted a thread at Black Hat World asking why have we not seen a case where a former Google employee who worked in search quality sell their knowledge or publish the secret sauce on what it would take to rank well quickly and get rich fast…
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John Steinbeck’s Google Logo Features His Greatest Works On His 112th Birthday
Today on the Google home page is a special Google logo, aka Doodle, to celebrate the life and contributions of John Steinbeck…
You Can Now Right Click On Google Maps
You can now right click on the map area on the new Google Maps and the default behavior of the browser will change and show you a different option…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Content Clarity Over Technical Content
There is an excellent video from Google’s Matt Cutts on the question Should I focus on clarity or jargon when writing content…
Bing Better Than Google At Tracking 12 Digit Fedex Tracking Numbers
Did you know Bing is better at Google when it comes to tracking some FedEx packages…
Google AdWords Flexible Conversion Counting
Google announced a new conversion counting method named “flexible conversion counting.” This new method replaces the old way of counting conversions…
Google Bug Fix Returns Traffic To SlashFilm & Other Movie Blogs
Monday we reported how SlashFilm.com & movie blogs saw a huge decline in traffic around February 14th and how Google’s Matt Cutts said he will look into it.
Well he did and their traffic is back…
Google Tests Detailed Local Reviews In Knowledge Graph
Dr. Pete Meyers from Moz spotted another Google user interface test, this one with the knowledge graph box where Google is showing local results with example reviews directly in the box.
Pete said…
You Can Fake Your Google +1 Counts With Redirects
Enrico Altavilla discovered a bug with how Google+ shows +1s for a page, which has already been patched by Google. It is pretty amazing and reminds me of how webmasters faked their PageRank back in 2005…
Google Click ID (GCLID) Character Length Changing March 31st
Google announced on Google+ that they are making an important change to the Google Click ID (GCLID), which is used by advertisers to track offline conversions.
The character length of that ID is changing from 26 characters…
Google Marquee HTML For Scrolling Results Count
Yesterday we reported on the blink HTML Google easter egg where the search results blink in and out. Today, there is another easter egg to report on…
Google May Or May Not Use EXIF Data For Ranking Images
Typically when Matt Cutts of Google posts a video, there is a yes or no, or he is leaning strongly one way or another in his answer. But this time…
Google Penalties Might Follow You To A New Domain Name
So we know that if you have a penalty on your site and you move your site to a new domain and redirect the URLs to that new domain…
Google Targets Poland In Latest Link Network Penalty
Yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google’s head spam fighter, announced on Twitter that Google has targeted two link networks that are popular in Poland and used often by Polish SEOs and webmasters…
New Google Easter Egg: Blink HTML
Google’s Ilya Grigorik who works on the Google Chrome team posted on Google+ a neat new easter egg in the Google search results…
Bing Warns: Poor Grammar May Lead To Poor Rankings
Duane Forrester from Bing strongly implied on the Bing Webmaster Blog that having poorly written content with poor grammar will have a negative impact on your search rankings within Bing…
/Film & Other Movie Blogs Drop In Google, Matt Cutts Promises To Investigate
A few days ago Peter Sciretta, the Owner/Editor of slashfilm.com, a movie blog…