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Alexander Supertramp / Shutterstock.com In January, Stone Temple Consulting released a virtual assistant consumer survey showing the majority of respondents wanted the assistants to provide “answers” rather than conventional search results. Today, the firm published a follow-up study that measured the relative accuracy of the four major assistants. It compared …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Report: Google Assistant bests rivals for questions answered and overall accuracyApr 27, 2017 by Greg Sterling Cortana was second for questions answered, Alexa second-best for accuracy. …

Google announced today that the Google Home device is now able to talk you through cooking more than five million recipes. Google partnered with Bon Appetit, The New York Times, Food Network and other recipe databases to bring the best recipes right to your Google Home device. How does it …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Simple tips to get your app indexed, ranked installedApr 26, 2017 by John E Lincoln Got an app you’d like to promote? Columnist John Lincoln provides …

Google last fall introduced its own travel planning application, Google Trips, a competitor to TripIt and others, which combines tools to manage your air and hotel reservations with suggestions of places to visit and things to do at your destination. Today, Google Trips is getting its first big update since …

Today, Google has reaffirmed that 15 percent of Google searches done by users on a daily basis have never been seen before. Google said this back in 2013 and now has restated that metric as Google announced Project Owl this morning. Google wrote: There are trillions of searches on Google …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google’s ‘Project Owl’ — a three-pronged attack on fake news problematic contentApr 25, 2017 by Danny Sullivan Google hopes to improve by better surfacing authoritative content …

Google knows it has a search quality problem. It’s been plagued since November with concerns about fake news, disturbing answers and offensive search suggestions appearing at the top of its results. “Project Owl” is an effort by the company to address these issues, with three specific actions being announced today. …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 4 ways brands are losing store traffic — and how to use location marketing strategies to reverse courseApr 24, 2017 by Wesley Young Many national franchise …

Virtual reality is more accessible than ever with devices like Gear VR and Daydream that can plug into your smartphone. However, there’s dearth of worthwhile VR video content out there. Google is trying to fix that with its Jump video platform. Today, the company has announced a new and improved …