Today’s Google doodle marks the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, highlighting the civil rights leader’s message of unity. Created by guest artist Keith Mallett, the image features a line of women and men from different backgrounds and cultures with their arms crossed to hold each others’ hands. From the Google …
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Google Maps is preparing to roll out a list-making feature that lets you star places, favorite places, and make bucket lists. That has led Foursquare to now respond by making its own lists feature more useful. The company announced this morning it’s introducing a new way to seek out lists on …
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Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a big fan of reading Google patents — or, when I’m feeling lazy, reading Bill Slawski’s analysis of them over on his blog, SEO By The Sea. I also have a particular interest in those involving entities, as they are (to me at least) …
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In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more. Google Bollywood car: Source: Twitter Indoor orange picking at Google: Source: …
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Hopefully, all of you learned from “Mobilegeddon” in 2015 and “Mobilegeddon 2” in 2016 that the updates Google makes to improve the smartphone user experience for the majority of Google searchers are not the end of the world. Not even close, in fact. Still, I have seen a lot of articles …
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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 has officially killed off their link commandJan 12, 2017 by Barry Schwartz Google tells webmasters and SEOs to stop using the link command, that it …
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A Google spokesperson has confirmed with Search Engine Land that the company’s link command is no longer functioning. Google told us the feature is no longer around, and using a link:www.domain.com will likely return irrelevant results. We saw signs of this going away a year ago, but then Google told …
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Google has officially confirmed they have begun rolling out the intrusive mobile interstitial penalty yesterday. Google warned us that this was coming almost a half-a-year ago and it did start rolling out on January 10, 2017 – as Google promised. Google’s John Mueller and Gary Illyes confirmed the penalty began …
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AmsStudio / Shutterstock.com January 10, 5:35pm ET: This article has been update with more information about automatic call extensions. In the second update in a week on how phone numbers display in ads, Google has begun alerting some advertisers that call extensions will start generating automatically as of February 6, 2017. …
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Google has updated its beta app for Android, adding shortcuts for frequently used features to the Google Now home screen. According to a report from Venture Beat, widgets for the weather, nearby restaurants and more appear when a user taps inside the Google Search box. From Venture Beat: If you’re …
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