SearchCap: Google Knowledge Maps, Right To Be Forgotten & No Google Algorithm Updates

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’s Knowledge Graph Expands Into Google Maps
  Google is expanding its Knowledge Graph into Google Maps. The company has confirmed to Search Engine Land that some locations in Google Maps will now get a new “Quick Facts” info card, and that the data are from Google’s Knowledge Graph. This new feature began appearing on Monday (May 12). The info card appears in […]
• Bing Ads Launches Live Chat Support And Industry Insights Portal With Research, Case Studies
  Today, the Bing Ads team announced the launch of live chat support and a new industry insights portal. Live Chat will be available at all hours every day of the week for in its English-language markets. Customers can use Live Chat to ask questions about campaign set up, optimization tactics, billing issues and more. The […]
• Google Updates iOS Search App To Include “Smarter” Voice Search Cues & Customized Alerts
  The Apple-focused website 9to5Mac.com reported today that Google’s iOS Search app has been updated to version 4.0, with new voice search cues and customized alerts from Google Now. With the updates, the app’s new voice search cues offer more conversational-styled search queries. According to the app’s iTunes page, users can have a “smarter” conversation, asking […]
• The “Right To Be Forgotten”: EU Court Gives People Ability To Delete Their Google Search Results
  The “right to be forgotten”: a triumph of individual privacy rights or censorship? It’s going to depend on how it plays out in specific circumstances. The Luxembourg-based European Union Court of Justice, Europe’s “top court,” ruled earlier today that Google can be compelled to remove information about individuals from search results as part of a […]
• Those Google Ranking Shifts Are Not A Google Update, Google Denies Any Algorithmic Changes
  Over the past week or so, there has been a lot of various signals across the search community that Google’s algorithms and rankings were updating; so much so that people were bracing themselves for a major Penguin or Panda-like algorithm announcement from Google. Google never made the announcement, and so I asked Google if anything […]
• 5 Tactics We Used To Build Links Last Month
  There are a lot of questions around link building tactics these days, especially when it comes to how companies can actually build links that won’t get them in trouble. In fact, one of the most common questions I hear at conferences and from clients is, “How do you build good links?” The answer, of course, […]
• New Google Sports Knowledge Graph May Include NBA Video Recaps
  Search for [miami heat] on Google and you may not just see information about scores, schedules, standings and so on, but you may also see a video hosted on YouTube from the NBA with a game recap. Google is now showing video thumbnails in the NBA knowledge graph. The picture above shows how the result […]
• How To Save URLs To The Wayback Machine On Demand
  Yesterday, Search Engine Land featured a post about the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine now providing access to more than 440 billion archived web pages back to 1996. As I’ve written about before on Search Engine Land and my infoDOCKET blog, the Wayback Machine is an absolutely essential resource for just about every web user. If […]

Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:

• Mobile Video Ad Inventory Skyrockets, More Than Tripled In Q1 [Report]
• Nike’s World Cup Spots Rank No. 1 & No. 6 On YouTube’s List Of Top Ads For April
• Yelp Introduces Free Restaurant Reservations
• Nearly 75 Percent Of Female Millennials Enrolled In Retail Loyalty Programs
• Tech Studio ‘Science’ Tags Delicious As A New Acquision
• Say Hello To The Content Marketing Stack
• Perfect Audience Launches Peer-To-Peer Retargeting: Directly Target Others Sites’ Visitors
• Google Analytics Adds Content Groupings In Behavior Flow For More Intuitive Visualizations
• For Golf Fans, Live Leaderboards Make Pre-Roll Ads Less Annoying
• 5 Steps To Becoming A Customer-Centric Marketing Organization

Search News From Around The Web:

Local & Maps

• Your Google Places Landing Page: Homepage or City-Specific?, LocalVisibilitySystem.com

Link Building

• Bing vs Google On Links, Search Engine Roundtable
• Reservation Denied! Unterkunft.de Loses Search Visibility, linkresearchtools.com

SEO

• 4 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Site While Under a Google Penalty, Vertical Measures
• Both Guns Blazing: SEO ain’t what it used to be, SwellPath
• How to Optimize Content for Traffic, blog.raventools.com
• Nuggets of Wisdom: The Future of Search, Distilled

SEM / Paid Search

• Bing Ads Academy: Importing Google AdWords Campaigns into Bing Ads, Bing Ads
• Conductor Launches Web Presence Management Platform and Declares the End of Paid Media, Market Wired

Search Marketing

• 29 Tips From SMX London 2014 (#SMX), koozai.com
• Auditing the Moz Q&A: Optimization and Insights, moz.com
• Gender Bias in Online Marketing: Data Shows Women Are Undervalued by 21%, WordStream
• Search Marketers’ Greatest Fears [Infographic] – ReferralCandy, blog.referralcandy.com