Google has been spotted displaying reviews in a carousel format, placed more prominently on local business profiles. The feature was spotted by digital marketer Aneel Badyal and confirmed by a Google spokesperson. A screenshot of the reviews carousel that surfaces on GMB profiles for relevant queries. Source: Aneel Badyal. Why …

Google is changing how it presents news stories in its search results. When people search for news, they typically see two top stories and a horizontal, scrolling carousel of results (AMP pages). As of today on mobile devices, people will see multiple carousels of news stories on the same topic. …

Users are increasingly relying on search and reviews when looking for local businesses, the latest BrightLocal consumer reviews survey finds. However, it also shows increasing skepticism of review authenticity and adaptive consumer behavior to combat review fraud. The survey polled just over 1,000 U.S. adults during November. Vast majority do …

  Intel launches and retires new products on a regular cadence, but it doesn’t typically resurrect CPUs once it’s made the decision to send them up to the big bit bucket in the sky. Intel recently announced that the Pentium G3420, a 22nm, Haswell-era CPU would return to active manufacturing …

Over the past few months, IBM and Google have released competing claims and announcements about various quantum projects each has in the works, including Google’s claim to have achieved a real-life world first with a demonstration of so-called quantum supremacy. While Google and IBM were slugging it out a few …

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft recently observed several particle ejection events on the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. OSIRIS-REx principal investigator Dante Lauretta and colleagues have analyzed the properties and behavior of particles ejected from Bennu to determine the possible mechanisms of ejection …

  The Broadview Hotel represents one of Toronto’s considerable transformations. What once was known as the strip club Jilly’s is now a cool hotel destination with a great rooftop space and funky restaurant bar. The evolution of the hotel continues with the addition of art in the form of photographs …

Sterling Sky, founded by local SEO expert and Search Engine Land contributor Joy Hawkins, has acquired LocalU. The event series was founded roughly a decade ago by a group of prominent SEOs to teach local SEO fundamentals to small businesses and local agencies. It has been run by Mike Blumenthal and …

When was the last time you looked for something, clicked an advertisement as well as bought quickly? Most likely never ever. That’s why it’s time for marketing professionals to quit utilizing last-click acknowledgment for determining success in Google Ads. Commonly, individuals are browsing on several tools as well as do …

Mid-market retailers threw their marketing dollars into Google Shopping, pulling back from Google text ads over the five days between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday compared to the same period last year. Enterprise retailers, meanwhile, increased spend across both Shopping and text ads. The findings are based on a representative sample …