NO Google Glass Sign
Nick Starr was banned from using Google Glass at his office and as a joke, I think, one of his coworkers bought a sign and hung it up in his office. The artwork comes from stopthecyborgs.org and they...
View ArticleGoogle Penalty Notifications Sent To Anglo Rank Link Buyers
As you know, Google’s Matt Cutts publicly outed that Google went after Anglo Rank’s link network and that the penalties and notifications will go out in a few days. Starting yesterday, some Anglo Rank...
View ArticleDaily Search Forum Recap: December 11, 2013
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: Google Penalty...
View ArticleGoogle Maps: Click To Get Coordinates
When it comes to getting the longitude and latitude of specific locations, I am a junky. Weird, I know, but I use it often. I actually have a bookmarklet to grab the lat/long from the old Google Maps....
View ArticleGoogle Inviting Glass v1 Explorers To Upgrade Before Christmas
Last night, along with other original Google Glass Explorers, I received an email from Google Glass telling me I am going to be receiving a box in the mail to swap out my original version of Google...
View ArticleBaby’s First Word: Google
Typically a baby’s first word is eat, mommy, daddy, no, yes, and stuff like that. But would you imagine that a baby’s first word would be Google? Jay posted in the Google Web Search Help forum that his...
View ArticleNew: Google AdSense Custom Ad Sizes
Google announced AdSense publishers can now create custom ad size units for both text and display ads on their web sites. Google said, “Custom sized ads behave just like their standard size...
View ArticleGoogle Christmas Funfair Party
Eze Vidra, the head of Campus London, backed by Google, posted an #autoawesome picture of Google’s holiday party there with the sign that reads, “Google Christmas Funfair.” I guess the part was...
View ArticleGoogle’s NSFW Pearl Necklace Search Result Removed
Yesterday, at Search Engine Land, I covered how the search for the term pearl necklace on Google would return an inappropriate and mostly irrelevant search result in the top positions. Someone...
View ArticleDaily Search Forum Recap: December 12, 2013
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: Google’s NSFW Pearl...
View ArticleGoogle Knowledge Graph Gets Ads
I am shocked to see Google testing ads on the knowledge graph so soon! @gfiorelli1 posted a picture on Twitter of the new car knowledge graph that launched a week or so ago with an ad format on it!...
View ArticleGoogle Structured Data Dashboard Adds Error Reports
In the middle of this year, Google released the Structured Data Dashboard for Google Webmaster Tools. Now, Google announced a useful upgrade to show errors in the tool. The new feature will now help...
View ArticleReporting Offensive Images In Google Image Search
Google has been changing the way they let searchers report offensive images for years now. Now, it may be even more confusing to report offensive images. A user reported a NSFW search to me on Twitter...
View ArticleGoogle+ Removed From Google AdSense Scorecard
In June of this year, Google added a Scorecard to the Google AdSense home page portal. The scorecard is designed to give publishers a quick snapshot of how well your ad settings, webpages and content...
View ArticleGoogle Goes Animated With Christmas Search Decorations
Every year, Google adds decorations to their search results for the holidays. They did it a couple weeks ago for Hanukkah and they do it every year for Christmas, Kwanzaa and heck, even Festivus. This...
View ArticleYandex Christmas Tree
Brad Fitzpatrick, who works at Google but also famed for creator of LiveJournal, memcached and OpenID, was at the largest Russian search engine, Yandex, the other day and snapped some pictures. Here...
View ArticleVideo Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: December 13, 2013
This week in search, we had Google go after yet another link network, this one named Anglo Rank. Yandex announced they are not going to use link data in their algorithm for commercial queries in...
View ArticleDaily Search Forum Recap: December 13, 2013
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: Video Recap of Weekly...
View ArticleDid Google Soften The EMD Algorithm?
Over a year ago, Google introduced an algorithm to reduce the amount of exact match domains from showing up when those EMDs are not as useful as other sites. Some at WebmasterWorld have noticed that in...
View ArticleGoogle: Duplicate Content Pollutes 25-30% Of The Web
We all know Google’s take on duplicate content, it is not spammy, it is not something they have penalties for unless you are being completely evil. We also know that if you have exactly the same...
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