Columbia University researchers claim 28% of Google’s URL takedown requests are invalid

Among the questionable DMCA notices, 4.2% of the takedown requests targeted sites that failed to include any copyright infringing content.

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Wanted: Session ideas for SMX East

We want your input to help us plan our upcoming SMX East conference, which will be taking place in New York City on Sept. 27-29, 2016. Specifically, we’d love to hear from you if you have an great idea for a session that you think should be on the agenda. And if you’re interested in…

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How Google Works

A transcription of Google engineer Paul Haahr’s session at SMX entitled “How Google Works”. It’s very rare that we get to hear from a Google Search Engineer at a Search Industry conference. There are always lots of helpful Google Webmaster Analysts present but since Matt Cutts became a little less visible on the conference circuit […]

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A Great Analyst’s Best Friends: Skepticism & Wisdom!

Here’s something important I’ve observed in my experience in working with data, and changing organizations with ideas: Great Analysts are always skeptical. Deeply so. This was always true, of course. But, it has become mission critical over the last few years as the depth, breadth, quantity and every other dimension you could apply to data […]

A Great Analyst’s Best Friends: Skepticism & Wisdom! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik

Google Testing Enhanced Buy Buttons for Movie Ticket Purchase

Last week when I was discussing the new Google approach to immersive mobile search I noted that if Google didn’t get you on the click they got you on the clock. This definitely falls under “the click” category. Google, in what is clearly a test*, is offering movie purchases up with a bold, call to … Continue reading Google Testing Enhanced Buy Buttons for Movie Ticket Purchase