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People using the official Google Search app on their iPhone will see a completely redesigned interface starting with version 2.0, Google has announced. The software serves up faster results and offers full-screen image search, as well as a simple way to access all your Google apps. “When you’re on the go... |
24 May 2012
03:03 GMT |
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Google is introducing a new way of getting to know its Webmaster Tools by providing them with lessons and practical examples rather than stacks of documentation. Inspired by the recent surge in educational sites, Google introduced the Webmaster Academy. "Looking through all of the information in Webmaster Central ca... |
23 May 2012
09:14 GMT |
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Google's core aptitude is search and, even as it tries to reinvent itself as a polyvalent company, search still is what it does best. And from time to time it remembers that. It has now improved the autocomplete system in Gmail search with customized data.
The autocomplete feature, same as the Google Search one... |
22 May 2012
05:20 GMT |
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Nokia’s Lumia devices have won another battle in their war against handsets running under Google’s Android operating system. As of late, they are enjoying more hits on Google Search than Verizon’s DROID handsets, which shows increased interest in them. Google Trends shows that people all around ... |
21 May 2012
02:21 GMT |
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In a somewhat rare move, but one that should become common very soon, Google's latest big update to the search engine, the introduction of the knowledge graph, is available in the mobile version straight away, at the same time the desktop version is.
That may not seem like much, but big features are rolled out ... |
17 May 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Google has started rolling out the semantic search update we've been hearing about all year. The feature actually started showing up in searches over the last few days and has been in testing for a lot longer than that.It may not seem like it at first, but the new Knowledge Graph is a major update for Google, no... |
16 May 2012
15:50 GMT |
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A Google a Day is an interesting way of getting users to learn more about searching, on Google, while playing. The trivia game has users solving puzzles by searching the web and it's proven rather popular. The game's housed at a dedicated site and the daily questions are published in the New York Times abov... |
15 May 2012
09:44 GMT |
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There's been plenty of talk about so-called "search neutrality," the notion that search engines should give equal worth to services and websites regardless of their owners. The argument is being made whenever companies are unhappy about Google ranking and believe they deserve better placement or believe that Goo... |
9 May 2012
17:21 GMT |
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It seems that Google has started rolling out the structured data search update that it talked about a few months back, or at least is testing it on a large scale. Several types of searches, those with immediate answers, will not get an info box to the right of the search results, similar to the Google+ box, with info... |
9 May 2012
13:31 GMT |
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There are plenty of Easter Eggs in Google Search and more added all the time. The latest has gamers in mind, search for "zerg rush" and you'll see what it's about. For those of you who are not gamers, or haven't played StarCraft, zerg rush is the "tactic" of swamping your enemy with a huge number of lo... |
27 April 2012
08:40 GMT |
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Matt Cutts has been posting interesting and helpful videos about Google Search, SEO and related topics for years. His most recent video from the Google Webmasters YouTube channel is quite interesting and quite long by his standard. Given that he tries to explain how the entire Google Search works, starting with the ... |
24 April 2012
18:11 GMT |
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Google is expanding the use of its misspelling and close variants technology to its ad business. Specifically, adwords users will now be able to target not only the keywords they use but also misspellings and other queries which are very similar and linked to the original keywords.
"Starting in mid-May, phrase and e... |
18 April 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Amazon is adding another product to the Web Services rooster, CloudSearch. The name leaves no room for interpretation, it's a search service powered by the cloud. It's designed for websites and apps that want to add search functionality that scales well relatively easy.
"Amazon CloudSearch is a fully-manag... |
12 April 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Google has provided a (long) list of search updates that it implemented in March. It's becoming a tradition now and more transparency is certainly welcomed by webmasters and SEOs. Of course, just because Google lists some of the things it's done in the past month, 50 or so, it doesn't mean that you... |
4 April 2012
10:14 GMT |
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A few months back, Google introduced a very interesting feature for high school students and math geeks needing a quick answer alike, graphs in the search results. Search for a mathematical or trigonometric function, even fairly complicated ones, and you would see a very nice graphical representations.But the feature... |
31 March 2012
11:31 GMT |
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For the longest time people have speculated on what it would be like for Facebook to enter the search business, and how its intimate knowledge of what you ate last night and who knows about it will help bring up much more relevant results to you personally. Given that Google has taken the same approach with Search +... |
30 March 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Google is experimenting with ways of making its Search website harder to use. That may be a bit harsh, but it's hard to judge differently the latest Google experiment, one that hopefully will remain just that.Some users are seeing a collapsible sidebar, one that is hidden by default. All they see is an "Everythi... |
28 March 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Mozilla is working on switching over to HTTPS Google Search by default in Firefox. What this means is that any search initiated from the Firefox search box, the AwesomeBar and, crucially, for search suggestions as well, will be done over a secured HTTPS channel rather than the open HTTP. It's a big move since F... |
22 March 2012
09:56 GMT |
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Google is announcing a change in the way it directs users to the sites they found via its encrypted search. Google will start using the "referrer" meta tag to provide limited referrer information to websites.Browsers that support the tag, Chrome for now, will be able to recognize it and will send only the info that G... |
20 March 2012
12:41 GMT |
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SEO, as long as it's within the boundaries of the search engine's (Google) terms of service, is never a bad thing. In fact, there's no such thing as too much SEO. This old mantra is about to change as Google is working on penalizing those that deploy too much SEO. The change isn't live yet and Go... |
19 March 2012
15:11 GMT |
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A couple of months ago, Google penalized a website for using paid links to boost its rankings. Google does this all the time of course, but this time around the website in question was Google Chrome's download page.
Now, that penalty has been lifted and the Google Chrome page again shows up in the top results f... |
16 March 2012
10:21 GMT |
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Google is expanding its flight search tool and going international with the addition of 500 cities outside of the US. The tool has been expanding since it's been introduced last year, but with the latest addition it is finally becoming a real competitor in the space."Since we launched Flight Search, we&rsq... |
15 March 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has been firing up its PR machine really hard lately. Not that there's been a time when it let up, but it's been particularly critical of Google in the past month or so. It seems Google is scared that Microsoft may actually be convincing some people since it's ramping up its own PR efforts ... |
15 March 2012
06:10 GMT |
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Historically, Google has been somewhat of a black whole when it came to search, ranking, algorithms and so on. Lately though, it has been opening up a bit, for example with a monthly post on major search algorithm changes, those that can be revealed without being gamed.
But now it's taking it even further with ... |
13 March 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Google is a huge 30,000 employee behemoth, but, thankfully, still has a playful side, at least for now. There are plenty of Easter eggs in Google Search for example, some are seasonal, during Christmas for example, some are permanent. And more are added from time to time. Several new Easter eggs that have been recen... |
12 March 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Google has just announced the availability of a new flavor of its Google Search application for devices powered by Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system. The new flavor of the app arrives on devices with features such as Google Autocomplete, which offers search predictions to speed things up. It also inclu... |
8 March 2012
02:15 GMT |
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Google products are pretty tightly knit, at least that's what you'd expect, especially when it comes to search. But the latest update to the mobile Google Search site shows that there's still plenty to be done.
For convenience, your desktop local searches now show up on the Google.com mobile homepage... |
6 March 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Google has announced that it is expanding the use of HTTPS across its international search domains. Encrypted connections had only been available on Google.com, but now local domains, Google.co.uk, Google.jp and so on, would get secured searches as well, the feature is rolling out over the next few weeks.
"Several m... |
6 March 2012
05:01 GMT |
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Doodles may seem like lighthearted fun, but there's a lot of work behind them. As this behind the scenes video shows, a lot of people work on the doodles that end up on Google's homepage. What's more, they go through several steps for each one, honing in on the final design.
Yesterday Rossini/leap ye... |
1 March 2012
05:13 GMT |
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Google is having a go at predicting the Oscars, after Yahoo placed its bets recently. Just like Yahoo, Google is relying on search data for its predictions, while also looking at past winners for any clues."Last year we found that for three years running, the films that won best picture had two things in common when ... |
26 February 2012
07:21 GMT |
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Google is continuing to expand the use of rich snippets, now that more and more websites seem to be adopting them. The latest addition are concerts, if your favorite band or just one you want to check out are playing near your town, you may find out in the search results."When you search for bands or artists, you may... |
24 February 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Google has rolled out an Image Search feature that's been testing for a while, a better interface for related searches. Now, for every Image Search you not only get a list of related searches but also the possibility of seeing a preview of what that search would uncover.
Related searches are more important for ... |
24 February 2012
05:10 GMT |
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The recent switch to the updated Google navbar came with an interesting addition, the share box is more prominently featured on most Google products, most notably on the homepage.
This change isn't entirely new, but now that the final revision of the updated navbar is being rolled out to everyone, a lot more pe... |
20 February 2012
09:20 GMT |
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Google is always experimenting with new features, changes, improvements and so on. Not even Google Search is sacrosanct and it seems that the company is now testing a rather radical change, search results pages with less than 10 results, the default since Google's inception.It may be an error on Google's pa... |
17 February 2012
11:51 GMT |
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Whether you like it or not, Valentine's Day is a force of nature, you simply can't ignore it. Still, even though it lands on the same day every year, a lot of people put off preparations until the very last minute.
And, in the very last minute, they have to rely on their phones more than anything else to ... |
16 February 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Google is enabling developers to improve their custom search engines by enabling them to search for images via the Custom Search API. Image search was already available via the standard Google Custom Search Engines, but it is now available via the new API as well.
The API offers more flexibility than the custom sear... |
15 February 2012
07:13 GMT |
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Google has gained market share for the second month in a row, while Yahoo continues to bleed. Bing has solidified its number two spot and distanced itself from Yahoo, though mostly because Yahoo is continuing to fall and not because Bing is gaining.
Google finished January with a 66.2 percent market share, as define... |
10 February 2012
10:22 GMT |
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Google's Image Search received a major update with the introduction of "visual search" i.e. the possibility of searching via an image, either from your computer or from the web.
This feature though opened up all sorts of new possibilities. One very interesting use of the visual search feature as well as the mod... |
10 February 2012
09:12 GMT |
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It's official, the old black navbar is back. Well, actually a hybrid of the old black bar and the new unified header has been set loose and this is the final version of the Google bar, at least for now, rolling out to everyone in the next few weeks.
The black navbar was introduced about the time Google+ was lau... |
10 February 2012
06:01 GMT |
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Google is always experimenting with new designs, new features and changes. It tests these changes with some users while it tweaks the design. Google is now experimenting with a new way of displaying related searches in Image Search. Now, a list of queries that may be related to your search is displayed above the reg... |
7 February 2012
04:54 GMT |
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The Super Bowl is over, it's time for the roundups. Google has taken a look at its searches over the weekend and has revealed some of the more interesting stats. Unsurprisingly, the attention was more on the stuff going on around the Super Bowl, than on the actual game. One interesting trend that Google noticed... |
6 February 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Late last week Google provided a big list of updates, changes and new features in Search implemented in January. Among them is an interesting tweak to Instant Search, which has been around for more than a year now. The feature works by loading search results as soon as users start typing, to cut down on response tim... |
6 February 2012
09:11 GMT |
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Google made a quite a lot of fuss about the new unified header that would adorn all Google properties. It's been moving towards this for several months now. Late last year, the black navigation bar, introduced along with the grand redesign of last summer, was removed, replaced by a header that integrated both th... |
6 February 2012
05:50 GMT |
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Google has provided its now usual list of major search algorithm and feature updates for January. Several of the changes address spelling suggests and corrections, but there are also improvements to image search and so on.
One thing that Google is boasting about is fresher results. This is an update to the new fresh... |
4 February 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Google is celebrating the adoption of Unicode on the web and is also announcing that it's already switching to the very latest version available, Unicode 6.1 which was released on January 31st. "We’ve long used Unicode as the internal format for all the text Google searches and process: any other encoding... |
4 February 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Google has finally commented on the Search Plus Your World debate. A couple of weeks ago, Google debuted a significantly changed version of its search engine which included Google+, meaning identity, content from users and their friends, brand pages and so on, into search.
Most people have been highly critical of th... |
30 January 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Google has made a change to the way Webmaster Tools reports search engine rankings. Specifically, Google will now take into account the highest ranking link to your site rather than the average position of all your links.
What this means is that, for any given query, only the top result will be taken into account wh... |
26 January 2012
07:11 GMT |
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The "Don't be evil" bookmarklet, created by Facebook and other social networks to 'fix' Google search results, greatly demonstrates that Google is not telling the whole story when arguing that it can't include social data other than from Google+ in its enhanced Google Search Plus Your World. The ... |
24 January 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Google is coming under continuing fire for the Search Plus Your World set of features that integrate Google+ into Google search, while leaving out other social networks. Google has been rightfully criticized about its move, though it has had some counter points. But its arguments didn't hold water, as perfectly... |
24 January 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Google has made a small but notable change, it is now showing results for punctuation mark searches. So far, punctuation marks have been ignored, just like several common words such as "of," "the" and so on. But just like those common words are now used in the search results in some cases, punctuation marks are recog... |
23 January 2012
15:21 GMT |
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