SearchCap: Google Translate App, Google News Crawler Update & GooglePlex Visitor Center

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 Opens A Visitor Center

  Here are pictures of Google’s temporary tour center, the permanent one is coming in the summer of 2015.

• Google News Now Will Crawl & Index Images Hosted Off Your Domain Name

  Google News updated their image crawl process to include images hosted off the publishers domain.

• The B2B SEO Opportunity In Organizational Mergers & Acquisitions

  Mergers and acquisitions present unique opportunities and challenges for B2B search marketers. Columnist Derek Edmond explains how to plan and prepare for the process.

• Q4 Paid Search Ad Revenue Up 24 Percent YoY In The Americas [Kenshoo]

  Mobile accounted for more than a third of clicks and ad spend.

• How To Leverage The Best Local Content Source For Multi-Location Brands

  Contributor Adam Dorfman offers helpful advice to large brands seeking to improve their local marketing efforts.

• Google History Added A Section For Your Google Now Cards

  Check your Google Now Card history in your Google Web History section.

• My 4 New Year’s Resolutions For A New Year Of SEO

  What are your SEO resolutions for 2015? Columnist Erin Everhart shares hers.

• Google Translate App Gets Improved Picture & Conversational Translation

  The new Google Translate app for iOS and Android brings real-time camera based translation and conversational translation to iOS.

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

• #ThisGirlCan Campaign Inspires Women To Wiggle & Jiggle With Pride & Purpose
• Top 10 Most Shared Super Bowl Ads Of All Time: Budweiser’s “Puppy Love” Only 2014 Video Ad To Make The List
• Study: Despite “Time Spent” Gap, Mobile Web Just As Important As Apps
• Twitter Wooing App Developers With World Outreach Tour
• CES 2015: The Big Trends That Should Matter To Marketers
• 3 Steps To 2015 Marketing Success For Retail Standouts
• Holiday E-Commerce Sales Up 27% For SMB Retailers In 2014
• Facebook To Launch “Work”, The Social Solution For Company Communication
• Why I’m Bullish On Content Creators In 2015
• Foster Better Campaign Performance Through Superior Client Relations
• It’s Time To Spice Up Your Email Content
• LinkedIn To Launch Intra-Company Tools To Help Unify The Workplace
• Survey: Mobile Integration Makes Other Digital Marketing More Effective

Search News From Around The Web:

Industry

• Mayer: Google’s ‘20% Time’ Does Not Exist, Business Insider

Local & Maps

• Beware Of Google Maps Spam Over Virtual Offices, Search Engine Roundtable
• Why Your Local Business Schema Sucks and How To Make it Better |, Whitespark

SEO

• Google Upgrades The PageSpeed Insights API, Search Engine Roundtable
• Google Webmaster Tools Updating Messages Text & Layouts, Search Engine Roundtable
• Optimizing images for SEO, Yoast
• These Clickbait Sites Are Building Massive SEO Traffic, brianprovost.com
• Want a Google Knowledge Graph Source Link? Try a Facebook Post, The SEM Post

SEM / Paid Search

• Marketers should think outside the (search) box, Bing Ads
• How To Find Out If It’s Seasonality Or Something Else, PPC Hero

Search Marketing

• A Relationship in Review: My Mixtape for Google, Web Talent Marketing
• How to get awesome actionable data from your events in Google Analytics, Branded3