If you know where to look or click, there's a hidden link from Alphabet to Hooli, the fictional tech company in HBO's Silicon Valley comedy. But hidden links are a no-no with Google's search guidelines.
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Survey finds high rate of those in SEM believe they're harmful to the world. Or does it? Digging deeper raises questions.
If signed by President Vladimir Putin, law goes into effect in 2016, allows for broader removals than with the EU's similar law.
Google loses deal it held since 2002, but AOL matters far less than it once did.
Can't find that video that Google listed in your results? It's not you. It's Google.
Google has announced that in the coming weeks, it will launch a system allowing people to request nude and explicit images of themselves posted without consent from appearing in Google’s search results. This move will help with the “revenge porn” issue, where upset partners post images to degrade someone they were with. It’s an issue that’s especially […]
Want scores in the FIFA Women's World Cup? On Android, Google makes it easy. For desktop & iOS, it's doing nothing special -- unlike for the men's tournament in 2014.
For the men's tournament, Google was quick with special boxes to highlight results. For the women's tournament, the boxes are often missing.
Ruling comes in same week that France demands that Google institute worldwide censorship.
Now you can ask Google to give you information about landmarks, buildings and businesses around you without ever having to actually use their names.
Three new elements join the table: Vertical Search, Direct Answers & HTTPS. Mobile & Structured Data among factors that get weight increases.
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Google's outreach to publishers and SEOs will continue to be split among a variety of people rather than being tied to the web spam fighting chief.
Crowdsourcing the entire web goes bad with Google Maps, causing many locations to be relevant for slurs and derogatory words. Google promises a fix is on the way.
Tweets now appear for trending topics in a new carousel format. Twitter doesn't earn directly off display but will gain new traffic.
If Hollywood's paid content can be shown without fear of upsetting searchers, why not news? But with more visibility, all access subscription may be needed.
Google's predictive search agent gets new apps that will remind you to exercise or allow you to pay your restaurant bill, plus more.
Was Reddit the biggest loser? Early results say yes, while TV Tropes and Entertainment Tonight are seen as winners.
Search was $24.6 billion of digital ad spend last year. Desktop outpaced mobile search spend nearly 4-to-1.
The search engine scores exceptionally well fighting piracy on generic searches for the popular TV series. But for the piracy-prone searches it's supposed to be targeting, there are failures.
The EU has raised four concerns about how Google has dominated shopping search. A close look at each charge and possible fixes that might emerge.
Bryan Seely campaigned against Google Maps loopholes last year by making fake listings for the FBI & The Secret Service. He's back again warning against them with his latest demonstration.
Google had given statements that its Panda and Penguin anti-spam fighting filters were running constantly. Now it says there's still delays between data pushes.
Google says the change is meant to help local searchers, but does the Right To Be Forgotten play a role?
Yahoo couldn't maintain gains from previous months and small "switchback" losses to Google likely to erode share more in the coming months.
It's official, Twitter confirms that it has a deal again to supply Google with access to its full stream of tweets.
Yahoo won the deal to be the default search engine in Firefox in November; now after losing some search share, Google's fighting back.
President Barack Obama will deliver his 2015 State of the Union at 6pm PT tonight. If you didn’t know the time, you might turn to Google or Bing for an answer. And there, the White House hopes to inform you through a special post it made to rank for that query. Right now, the State […]
Company is sticking with figure it gave in 2012 but stresses it's "over" that amount. How much over, Google's not saying.
US House of Representatives majority whip says Google not being "available" in 2002 prevented vetting his speaking to group of white supremacists. But Google and other popular search engines did exist.
The core service that launched Yahoo as an internet company -- the Yahoo Directory -- finally closes 20 years after it began.
Santa Claus is on his way -- and there are two excellent services to track his progress. Our guide to getting the most of out NORAD Tracks Santa and Google Santa Tracker.
Did Google News really close in Spain? If you consider Google News to be the ability to browse stories by topic, especially from a dedicated home page, yes. But if it’s the ability to search for and find news stories, then arguably, Google News still lives. Anyone trying to reach the Google News Spain home page […]
How much does it cost to be Mozilla’s Firefox search provider in Europe? Perhaps nothing — because Google will continue to be the provider there despite not having any formal deal with Mozilla, come this December. Yesterday, it was big news that Mozilla announced new deals making Yahoo the default search provider for Firefox in the US, Yandex […]
Google already penalizes sites that provide a bad experience to mobile searchers. Now the company has confirmed that it’s testing with what seems like a boost for those providing a great experience. Google said today that it is experimenting with giving sites that have earned its new mobile-friendly label some type of special treatment within its ranking algorithm. From […]
Think social media has killed search as a traffic driver? Think again, given that social media giant Twitter shared today that SEO has helped it generate a 10-times increase in logged-out visitors to its web site. The news came during the Twitter Analyst Day event today. Twitter’s director of product management Trevor O’Brien said the company made […]
The head of Google’s web spam team, Matt Cutts, says that his leave from the company has gone so well that he’ll be continuing it through 2015. Cutts shared the news today in a note added to his original blog post from July about going on leave, saying: When I went on leave, I wanted […]
Duane Forrester, the senior product manager in charge of webmaster outreach for Bing, has lost his job as part of the recently announced layoffs at Microsoft. The move leaves Bing without one of its longest-serving and recognizable faces to the SEO and publisher community. Forrester posted the news on his blog today, saying he’s not […]
Want to search for something using popular emoji characters? Microsoft’s Bing search engine now supports this. Bing announced the news in a post today, sharing some examples of why you might want to do this. For one, perhaps you want to know what exactly a particular emoji means. Enter that into the search box, and […]