Video: Google Conversational Search In Action
As Danny Sullivan reported earlier, Google’s Conversational Search is now live on the Google desktop at Google.com.
Basically, it lets you talk your query to Google and Google will respond back with a response…
GeoGuessr: Addictive Google Maps Guessing Game
Spotted via Hacker News a site named geoguessr is an addictive guessing game that has you look at Google Street View imagery and you click on the Google Map to say where that image was taken from…
Webmasters Upset Big Brands Get Personalized Responses From Google’s Matt Cutts
Many webmasters know that it is incredibly hard to get a Google representative to respond to their concerns one-on-one, let alone Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts.
Google simply does not have the resources…
Flexible Bid Strategies Comes To Google AdWords
Google announced that soon you will be able to have more flexible bidding methods for your keywords and campaigns. Google is calling this flexible bid strategies and it is coming in the next couple weeks to those who’ve upgraded to enhanced campaigns….
Google AdWords Launched Keyword Ad Planner
Google announced a new keyword tool named the Keyword Planner.
The tool can be found under the Tools & Analysis tab when you are logged into your Google AdWords account. The tool combines the benefits of the Keyword Tool and the Traffic Estimator into an integrated workflow…
Google On How To Avoid AdWords Ad Disapproval
Google AdWords support representative, Charvi…
Search Google & Get Google Now Reminders
Google Now is now more baked into Google Search. For example, if you do a search for [when is fathers day 2013 or other factual dated queries…
Yahoo Spends $1.1 Billion To Be Cool (Buy Tumblr)
I’m sure you heard the news by now, Yahoo has acquired Tumblr for a cool $1.1 billion in cash.
Seriously…
6 New Data Types Now Supported By Google’s Data Highlighter Rich Snippet Tool
The Google Data Highlighter tool, which initially launched in December with support for just marking up pages that had event data…
#ifihadglass Winners Soon To Get Invites To Pick Up Glass
It seems as if the second batch of Google Glass Explorers will soon be getting invites to pick up their Google Glass…
Google Slaps Sprint For Spammy Community Forum
The next large brand to be penalized by Google is Sprint, the large U.S. wireless provider.
A Google Webmaster Help thread has Kent Van Deusen, the Sprint website support representative…
Google Maps Business Ratings Now Up To Five Stars
Remember when Google took over Zagat and then announced they are dropping the star reviews for businesses…
Google AdWords Ads Take 24 To 72 Hours To Be Approved
A Google AdWords Help thread has Google’s Charvi explaining how long an AdWords ad can take to be approved.
Typically…
Nofollow Your Links? How Long Until Google Notices
A WebmasterWorld thread has one SEO/Webmaster asking how long will it take for Google to show him the fruits of his efforts after nofollowing a bunch of links on his site.
He wanted to know how long will it take Google to notice the nofollows and see …
35% Will Block Google Images In Protest Of Change
About a month ago, we asked our readers if they are or plan on blocking Google Images after they noticed a huge drop in traffic since the new image search design launched…
Google Subject Specific Authority Ranking
As part of our coverage of the ten Google algorithm changes coming this summer, I wanted to make sure you all saw that Google was coming up with a technique to determine which sites are authorities in specific topics. Now, if Google determined…
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Gaining Access To The New Google Maps
As we expected, Google introduced the new Google Maps interface and features at Google I/O.
The new maps are no longer a “static map” but now the maps are “immersively interactive” said…
Google Drops The “Translated Foreign Pages” Search Filter
Google has dropped yet another search filter option from the search results. This one is named “Translated Foreign Pages…
Google Adds Organization Schema Markup For Knowledge Graph Logos
Google has announced they’ve added support for the schema.org markup for organization logos within the search results, specifically not the search snippets but within the knowledge graph…
Google Maps Will Allow You To Move Reviews To A Different Listing
Jane Wang from Google announced in the Google Business Help forums that you can now make a request for Google to move your businesses reviews from one listing to another…