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Google’s St. Patrick’s Day doodle is an animated image featuring high-fiving Shamrocks on Ireland’s Skellig Michael, an island off the coast of County Kerry. Categorized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, Skellig Michael is home to various seabird species, including puffins, gannets and razorbills. From the Google Doodle Blog: …

Google uses machines to scan the web and return relevant results for your search queries. Humans don’t often get involved in that process, but there are some things machines still aren’t good at. For example, evaluating the “quality” of a source. That’s why Google has a small army of humans …

Google debuted a new display ad format on the Google Display Network this week to showcase local business information. The new location extension ad format rolled out in AdWords on Tuesday. The new ad format shows photos, store location and business hours, as well as an ad headline and copy as shown …

Ask Google Home what your day is like today, and it will remind you that Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” is opening. Google says this isn’t an ad. But it’s definitely an out-of-the-ordinary cooperation with a Google Home “partner.” The promotion was spotted by Bryson Meunier, whose child was definitely excited …

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 Home gets ‘Beauty The Beast’ promo, but Google says it’s not an adMar 16, 2017 by Danny Sullivan Appears to be the first-ever commercialization of …

Google has just one-upped Apple on mobile in a significant way: today the company today announced the launch of Family Link, an application for parents that lets them establish a child’s first Google account, as well as utilize a series of  parental controls to manage and track screen time, daily limits, device “bedtimes,” and …

Stone Temple Consulting has published a new study supporting Google’s claim that it doesn’t use Chrome browser data for discovering new URLs for its search index. The test was pretty simple: They created a “couple of pages that Google didn’t know about,” then they had “a bunch of people visit …

Google is undertaking a new effort to better identify content that is potentially upsetting or offensive to searchers. It hopes this will prevent such content from crowding out factual, accurate and trustworthy information in the top search results. “We’re explicitly avoiding the term ‘fake news,’ because we think it is too vague,” …

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 launches new effort to flag upsetting or offensive content in searchMar 14, 2017 by Danny Sullivan Using data from human “quality raters,” Google hopes to …

Google Assistant has now come to Android phones beyond Google’s own Pixel. It’s a significant change to how Google’s previously offered search on mobile devices. It’s also the latest in a wide variety of ways people can search with Google on Android. Below, how Google Assistant fits in with Google’s …