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…
Can You Rank In Google Without Content?
A WebmasterWorld thread has a webmaster who has a site that doesn’t have any real content. It is basically statistical downloads and specifications downloadable as PDFs or Zip files…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: January 31, 2014
This week in search, I first apologize for how I sound and feel in this video. Googleâs Matt Cutts announced they penalized a French link network named…
Bing For Schools, Finally?
Matt Wallaert, a Behavioral Scientist at Microsoft but more well known for creating Bing For Schools posted on Twitter something strange. He wrote, “Finally, Bing for Schools. No ads, the way it should be in schools…
Patent Holder Awarded 1.36% Of Google’s AdWords Revenue
You may have heard that Google was ordered to pay a patent troll 1.36% of their AdWords revenue between 2012 to 2016. That comes out to about $1 billion or so.
Greg Sterling at Search Engine Land
Twitter Adds New & Useful Search Filters To Search Results
Twitter announced on Twitter that they have added new search filters to the Twitter search results…
Dear Google, We Can Help With Your Google Rankings
You and I get them all the time, spammy emails from SEO companies telling us how they can get us more traffic and higher rankings in Google…
Google Location Based Answer Query Results
Spotted via blumenthals, it seems Google has a new location onebox answer result for certain types of queries.
So if you search in Google for the location of X, or searches for business name locations and so forth, Google will give you a one box resul…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Don’t Use Article Directories For Link Building
In a short video yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts told webmasters and SEOs not to use article directory sites for link building strategies.
Well…
Search Google+ Photos For Motion To Get Animated Photos
Google+ posted on Google+ a search tip to help you create and find pictures that were made into animated GIFs through their autoawesome feature.
You can search Google+ Photos for the word [motion] and Google will return pictures that have motion from …
Search Google+ Photos For Motion To Get Animated Photos
Google+ posted on Google+ a search tip to help you create and find pictures that were made into animated GIFs through their autoawesome feature.
You can search Google+ Photos for the word [motion] and Google will return pictures that have motion from …
Google Answers Questions With Longer Responses Now
Google for as long as I can remember showed answers for basic questions. Questions like what is the weather, what is 1+1 and so forth.
Now, Google is answering more complex questions with more more detailed responses…
Google Answers Questions With Longer Responses Now
Google for as long as I can remember showed answers for basic questions. Questions like what is the weather, what is 1+1 and so forth.
Now, Google is answering more complex questions with more more detailed responses…
Google’s Matt Cutts: We’re Taking Action Against Buzzea, The French Link Network
Last night at around 3am EST (this morning), Google’s Matt Cutts Tweeted, “Today we’re taking action on a French link network that violates our quality guidelines (Buzzea).”
Buzzea has already posted a message on their site acknowledging the Google pen…
Google’s Matt Cutts: We’re Taking Action Against Buzzea, The French Link Network
Last night at around 3am EST (this morning), Google’s Matt Cutts Tweeted, “Today we’re taking action on a French link network that violates our quality guidelines (Buzzea).”
Buzzea has already posted a message on their site acknowledging the Google pen…
Date Picker On Some Google Knowledge Graph Carousel Results
Via Chris Desrochers on Twitter, Google is now showing a date selector on the Google Knowledge Graph Carousel for some queries that benefit from it…
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 28, 2014
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
irwinmitchell.co.uk Also Penalized By Google…