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Google Asked To Take Down Over 1.2 Million URLs Last Month From Search Results

May 24, 2012 at 3:49pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Google announced they have enhanced the Google Transparency Report to include the removal requests to take down individual search results from showing up in Google. In fact, Google has told us in the past month they have received 1,246,713 removal requests from 24,129 different target domains of 1,296 copyright owners by 1,087 reporting organizations. So only just over a thousand copyright owners submitted removal requests and top five include Microsoft with over a half a million URL removal requests last month followed by British Recorded Music Industry, NBC Universal, Elegant Angel and R [...]

Related Topics: Google: Legal | Google: Web Search | Legal: Copyright

Why Google’s Venice Update Fundamentally Changes Global SEO

May 24, 2012 at 3:24pm ET by Chris Liversidge

Google’s Venice update has caused surprisingly few ripples in the search engine marketing industry given the scale of its impact on search: it’s easily as important as Big Daddy from 2006, itself the most significant update made by Google up to that point.

Goodbye Google+ People & Pages, Hello Knowledge Graph Box

May 24, 2012 at 1:31pm ET by Matt McGee

Google's Knowledge Graph has claimed its first "victim," if you will: The content box that showed "People and Pages On Google+" is gone. In its place? A variety of Knowledge Graph-related content that will show up differently depending on the search query. In making the changes to this prime real estate on a search results page, Google is lessening somewhat the visibility of Google+. But it's still using the space in the upper right of its search results to keep searchers on Google -- something well within its rights, but something that may attract criticism in the same way that the Google+ [...]

New Design & Features Come To iPhone Google Search: Version 2.0

May 23, 2012 at 1:25pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Google has announced a new version of the Google Search iPhone app. The new version is version 2.0 and was completely redesigned focusing on speed, usability, new features and making it beautiful. Here are the main new changes you will find in version 2.0: Complete App Redesign Full Screen Mode Option Faster Search Autocompletion Faster Page & Swipe Load Times Image Search Redesigned Adding Full Screen, High Resolution Images & Save Image Feature Swipe Away Web Pages To Return To Results Search Within Web Pages Faster Switching Between Images, Places, News, Web & Other Vertica [...]

Related Topics: Google: Mobile | Google: Web Search

New Exact & Phrase Matching Behavior: Early Findings

May 23, 2012 at 10:30am ET by Benjamin Vigneron

In a world where lots of search marketers are still reluctant to use broad match type due to its lack of relevance and control, Google has released two features to have more advertisers show their ads on all those very long tail queries: The broad modifier feature was rolled out in July 2010 in the U.S and was mostly aimed at scaling up those accounts not already using regular broad match type. Search marketers have to then build new broad keywords using “+” signs to effectively unlock the broad modifier feature. Because it requires some time and effort, not all advertisers have actu [...]

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