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Natural News, a controversial alternative medicine website, according to Wikipedia, has been delisted from Google. The news site confirmed being removed from Google and recently claimed Google banned them because the site was pro-Trump. Google has confirmed the site was not removed for its political views but rather because of …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Natural News was not banned from Google over fake newsFeb 23, 2017 by Barry Schwartz A Google webmaster violation is the reason this web site was …

The latest forward-facing Googler to leave the search team is Maile Ohye. She is best known for her talent for conveying complex technical topics in an understandable and actionable manner. She has produced dozens of Google webmaster videos, spoken at countless marketing and developer events and led many of the …

Google has recently updated the Google My Business guidelines to state that virtual offices are not considered service-area businesses and that you need to have the virtual office staffed during business hours. A new section was added under the “address” portion of the guidelines that reads: Service-area businesses — businesses …

Always the fan of space-travel and astronomy, Google wasted no time designing a doodle to acknowledge NASA’s discovery of seven earth-like planets orbiting a single-star 235-trillion miles from our own solar system. Named the TRAPPIST-1 solar system, Google shared NASA’s report that three of the seven planets are located in …

Google has updated their iOS keyboard extension, Gboard to add 15 new languages, voice typing, new emojis and Google Doodles. The new languages include Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Catalan, Hungarian, Malay, Russian, Latin American Spanish and Turkish. To add these languages to Gboard go to …

To a small niche retailer, it can seem daunting (almost pointless) to invest too heavily in Google Shopping. After all, how could you ever compete with the major players who have far more money, products and people than you do? Well, the good news is, it is possible to be …

The way Google ranks pages in its search results today is much different from the way it ranked them two years ago. Why? In early 2015, Google began its slow rollout of RankBrain, a machine-learning artificial intelligence system that helps process search results as part of Google’s ranking algorithm. As of June 2016, …

Search engines are advancing at the fastest rate we’ve seen in many years thanks to machine learning. These advances have allowed the search engines to focus on providing the most relevant results, not only in terms of content, but also in terms of user experience (UX). At the end of …

Over the past few weeks, users have spotted a new ad label on Google search ads. Instead of a solid green background, the new label has a green outline and white background. Sightings have increased rapidly over the past several days, and Search Engine Land has received confirmation from Google …