Google’s Ingress Coming To iOS?
There is some speculation that the incredibly addictive and obsessive Ingress app for Android, designed by Google years ago, is coming to iOS.
Brandon Badger from Google, the Niantic Labs at Google…
Google Giving Some Business Owners 3 Weeks To Save Their Google Place Listing
Some business owners are reporting getting emails from Google and are asking if this is legit in the Google Business Help forums.
The emails are legit and coming from Google and the subject line is…
Google NoFollows Google+ Profile Links
Folks on Google+ noticed that Google+ has recently began nofollow many of the links in your profile by default.
So if you visit my profile page on Google+, the section where it says “Links”, most of those, if not all, seem to be nofollowed…
Playable YouTube Videos Directly In Google’s Search Results
Moz on Google+ noticed a new search result format showing up in the search results for videos.
When you do a search that triggers videos, I think only from YouTube…
Microsoft’s New CEO Is A Search Guy, Satya Nadella
Yesterday, Microsoft named Satya Nadella their new CEO. Yes, he is a familiar name for many of you because he has been involved in search at Microsoft for years.
He keynoted at one of the first, if not the first…
Google Sends Manual Actions For Rich Snippet Spam & Spammy Structured Markup
Rich snippet spam has been an issue since rich snippets came out and eventually added a report rich snippet spam tool. Then Google dropped the amount of rich snippets showing in the search results recently…
Google AdWords Flexible Conversion Counting
Google sent an email to AdWords advertisers yesterday announcing a new change to how Google will allow you to customize how you count conversions.
Kim Clinkunbroomer posted the details on Google+ about what is launching this month in AdWords…
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Google To Bring It On German Link Spammers
Yesterday, Google posted a stern warning on the German Google Webmaster blog telling webmasters that you will be penalized for unnatural links.
Matt Cutts then Tweeted the same warning saying A reminder…
Google’s New Search Funnels Attribution Modeling Tool
Google announced on Google+ a new AdWords tool for determining the attributions that lead to your conversion. The tool is named the Search Funnels Attribution Modeling Tool…
Facebook Turns 10, Why No Google Doodle?
As you may have heard, Facebook turned 10 years old today. Mark Zuckerberg posted his thoughts about this on Facebook. I’ll embed his post below, but it is a major milestone for Facebook. It has changed the internet in a major way…
Can Yahoo Make A Come Back Into Search?
Over the weekend, news broke that Yahoo’s CEO, Marissa Mayer, has started initiatives to get Yahoo back into building its own search technology.
As you may remember…
SMX Israel 2014 Recap: Our Best Show Yet
It is now 9 days after SMX Israel 2014 and honestly, I am still recuperating. The conference completely wiped me out, you can see what I mean if you watch my video from a few days ago. But it was worth it…
Expedia Still Under Google Penalty Two Weeks Later?
Two weeks ago, we reported that Expedia may have been penalized by Google for unnatural links…
Google Kirkland Construction Site Has A Seahawks Logo
Tim Milligan, a Engineering Manager at Google, posted a picture a few days go on Google+ of the Google Kirkland construction site. Yea…
DMOZ Drops Over 1 Million Sites From Directory?
Did you notice that DMOZ, one of the oldest and largest human crafted web directories, has removed over 1 million sites and 10,000 editors from their directory…
Google Places Business Adds 1,000 Categories Internationally
Jade Wang from Google’s Places, business help, team posted in the Google Business Help forums that they have greatly expanded the business category support by adding over a 1,000 new categories internationally…
Google’s Harriet Tubman Logo For Black History Month
On Google.com today, February 1, 2014, Google has a special logo, aka Doodle for the start of Black History Month. The Logo is of Harriet Tubman.
The Doodle is 687 pixels wide, which make for one of the widest Google Doodles in a long time…
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Google Q4 2013 Earnings: Revenues Up, Paid Clicks Up & CPCs Down
Last night, Google announced earnings – the results were mixed where revenue targets were beat but earnings-per-share was lower than targets. In after hours trading last night…
Bing Rewards Adds iOS & Android Support, Windows Coming Later
Bing announced they are bringing their Bing Rewards program to mobile devices. Well, not all mobile devices, just iOS and Android for now. Some what ironically, Windows devices are currently not supported…
Do-It-Yourself Glass Frames Beat Google’s $225 Frames?
As you know, Google released prescription frames and now some have actually received them and been trying them out.
They aren’t cheap, they cost $225 and you have about five styles to choose from. Better yet, they don’t fold, like normal Google Glass…