“America” Movie Filmmaker Sends Legal Demand For Google To Fix Showtime Results
The Hollywood Reporter writes that Dinesh D’Souza’s movie, “America” is not coming up properly in the Google search results and as a result, they are getting complaints that the movie is not available in local theaters near movie-goers. Dinesh D’Souza’s lawyers sent a letter…
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Google’s Knowledge Graph Is Showing Step By Step Instructions: Here Are Some Examples
Earlier this year, Google began offering much more detailed answers in the top knowledge graph box. Shortly after that was introduced, Google also began expanding those answers into a bulleted list format. We’ve been seeing these bulleted lists, especially in “how-to” like queries…
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New Google Sports Knowledge Graph May Include NBA Video Recaps
Search for [miami heat] on Google and you may not just see information about scores, schedules, standings and so on, but you may also see a video hosted on YouTube from the NBA with a game recap. Google is now showing video thumbnails in the NBA knowle…
Google Can Now Solve Your Geometry Math Questions
Google has quietly upgraded their search calculator to not just answer your basic math questions or graphical or 3D math questions but now it can do your geometry homework. You can ask Google geometry related questions and it will solve them for you, s…
Now Official: Google Adds Restaurant Menus To Search Results
That Google menus experiment we told you about a couple weeks ago? It’s now official. But it’s only available in the U.S. at the moment. Google announced that it’s now showing restaurant menus as a OneBox-style answer at the top of its search results. It seems to be primarily…
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Googling The Weather: From 20% Project To Sophisticated Query Analysis
Millions of us have asked Google to play weatherperson. In order to get an answer to one of our oldest and most basic questions, we type a variety of words and numbers — city names, neighborhoods and ZIP codes, plus words like “weather,” “forecast” or maybe…
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Google Showing Restaurant Menus In Card-Style Search Result
Google has started showing complete restaurant menus in its search results when a query specifically looks for menu information. We think Allie Brown was the first to spot this when she shared the results of a search for “jones brunch menu” on Twitter. For that query, Google begins the…
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Google’s Latest Search Trick: “As The Crow Flies” Distance Calculation
Move over, pandas. Fly away, hummingbirds. Waddle away, penguins. Google has a new animal friend: crows. But unlike its past associations with the animal world, this one isn’t about SEO or algorithms — it’s a new search trick that adds distance calculation to Google’s OneBox…
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