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Topic: Barack Obama
Google AI Overviews under fire for giving dangerous and wrong answers
Your Money, Your Life seems to not apply to AI Overviews. Google advises users to run with scissors, cook with glue and eat rocks.
This day in search marketing history: March 24
Google’s top 3 search ranking factors, plus: Google Maps blocks abusive business profile edits, Google penalties and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 18
Yahoo stops using Google search, plus: Core Web Vitals, RSAs become default, Google Shopping Campaigns For PLAs and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 4
MicroHoo Day 4, plus: Google expands phrase match, Google Adds JSON-LD support, reconsideration requests and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 3
How Google uses AI in search, plus: an unconfirmed Google algorithm update, Amit Singhal leaving Google, bad ads and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 22
Google deduplicates featured snippets, plus: Facebook and Twitter signals, blacklisting domains, Wikipedia nofollows links and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 20
Matt Cutts forks guest blogging, plus: Semrush buys Backlinko, ranking factor study, a Google search quality rater interview and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 19
Google's page layout algorithm, plus: Matt Cutts resigns from Google, Top Stories deduplication, mobile usability warnings and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 13
Google's Matt Cutts search integrity tour, plus: core updates, Carol Bartz becomes Yahoo CEO, Baidu censors Google and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 7
The Spam Clock targets Google spam, plus: link removal request figures, loads of new tools and features, major search deals and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 5
Google AdWords introduces click-to-call ads, plus: IndexNow WordPress plugin, AdWords 2x budget change, search being solved and more.
Google search results page displays answer without any search results
Who needs the ten blue links when you have the answer? Google is hiding the organic listings from some search results.
FCC repeals net neutrality by party line vote
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, a former Verizon lawyer, gives his previous bosses an early Christmas present by gutting the 2015 rules.
A deep look at Google’s biggest-ever search quality crisis
Under fire for months, can Google reverse the drip-drip-drip of criticism as incorrect, absurd or even dangerous results surface to the top?
Google launches new effort to flag upsetting or offensive content in search
Using data from human "quality raters," Google hopes to teach its algorithms how to better spot offensive and often factually incorrect information.
SearchCap: Poor Google featured snippets, related picks & getting Google Assistant
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: How we hijacked Google’s SEO guide search rankingsMar 6, 2017 by Dan Sharp Contributor Dan Sharp shares an experiment in which his company was able to hijack rankings — from Google […]
Google’s “One True Answer” problem — when featured snippets go bad
Obama's planning a coup? Women are evil? Several presidents were in the KKK? Republicans are Nazis? Google can go spectacularly wrong with some of its direct answers.
Four US presidents in the KKK? Google’s latest problem with featured answers
Technically called a “featured snippet,” Google lists four U.S. presidents as Klan members, even though there's no conclusive evidence any were.
For answering questions, Google Home bests Amazon Echo & Alexa
If you've always wanted someone around the house to answer all the questions you have during the course of your day, that someone is a something -- Google Home.
Direct answer fail: Google gives only one side of proposed gun ammo & magazine law
Want to know about California’s Proposition 63, a measure to control gun ammunition sales and large magazines, which is on the state ballot this month? Google has the answer. It’s a “deceptive ballot initiative that will criminalize millions of law-abiding Californians.” So much for balanced search results. Google presents that answer at the very top of its […]
FAQ: All about the Google RankBrain algorithm
Google's using a machine learning technology called RankBrain to help deliver its search results. Here's what's we know about it.
Live: Google Launches AMP Listings In Mobile Search Results, For Some
A day earlier than expected, Google has pushed AMP results in the Google mobile news carousel.
Meet RankBrain: The Artificial Intelligence That’s Now Processing Google Search Results
A machine-learning AI is handling a large fraction of Google's search queries.
SearchCap: New Google Logo, App Interstitials Penalty & Goodbye Search Queries Report
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: The Finalists For The 2015 Search Engine Land Awards Are… We are thrilled to announce the finalists for the inaugural Search Engine Land Awards. With over 100 compelling entries, we are […]
Mount McKinley Becomes Mt. Denali On Google Maps; Bing Stays With Old Name
Restored to its native name by US President Barack Obama, the transformation has yet to fully complete on the major search engines.
When Google Gets It Wrong: Direct Answers With Debatable, Incorrect & Weird Content
As Google adds more direct answers, top results with questionable - and sometimes completely inappropriate content - continues to grow.
What Happened To Dinosaurs? Google’s Direct Answer Gives Non-Scientific Theory From Religious Site
Google search query on the demise of the dinosaurs returns an answer based on creationism.
Senator Mike Lee Opens Investigation Into Google-FTC Antitrust Outcome
Secondary political motivations enter the FTC report controversy.
SearchCap: Yahoo & Microsoft, Blekko Now At IBM & Link Spam Analysis
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Moz Open Site Explorer Adds Spam Analysis For Risky Links Popular SEO tool software company, Moz, launched a spam analysis feature within their link analysis toolset. 10 Practical Tips For Using […]
WSJ Report Suggests Intervention In FTC’s Google Investigation By White House
Article asserts Google lobbying affected agency's decision in antitrust case.
SearchCap: Bing & Yahoo UI Tests, Lyric Sites Dive In Google & Google News More Trusted
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: What Time Is The State Of The Union? White House Uses SEO To Spread The Word President Barack Obama will deliver his 2015 State of the Union at 6pm PT tonight. […]
What Time Is The State Of The Union? White House Uses SEO To Spread The Word
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 […]
Bing’s Top Searches In 2014: Kim Kardashian No. 1 Most Searched Celebrity
If you were searching for a celebrity on Bing this year, there’s a good chance you were looking for Kim Kardashian. Using data from Bing Trends, the site released its most popular searches of 2014, listing everything from top celebrity, athlete and news story searches to the Top Ten ice bucket challenges, and vacation destination […]
SearchCap: King Of The United States, Break Up Google Conflict & More
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: German Legislator Calling For Google Breakup Has Serious Conflict Of Interest The German member of the European Parliament behind the call to break up Google, Andreas Schwab, has a conflict of […]
According To Google, Barack Obama Is King Of The United States
Ask Google who is the [King Of United States] and Google will inform you that it is Barack Obama, the current President of the United States. The Google Answer is pulled from Breitbart, a story they posted five days ago named All Hail King Barack Obama, Emperor Of The United States Of America! It appears […]
Bing Teams Up With CNN To Let Viewers Give “Real-Time” Feedback On 2014 Election Coverage
Bing is upping its political game, announcing today a partnership with CNN where users can give “real-time feedback” on CNN’s political coverage via Bing Pulse. According to the announcement, viewers will be able to vote on CNN broadcasts during the 2014 US elections, and all the way through the 2016 Presidential elections. [blockquote cite=”Bing Search […]
When Google Shows A Source Or Credit For Quick Answers & Knowledge Graph
As Google continues to provide quick answers and Knowledge Graph data directly at the top of the search results, publisher concerns continue to rise. Publishers are worried that searchers will have less of a need and desire to click through from Google’s search results page to the publisher’s page, leaving the publishers with very little […]
SearchCap: Google Local Pigeon Update & AdWords Dynamic Sitelinks
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 Pigeon Update Solves Yelp Problem, Boosts Local Directories As the analysis continues on yesterday’s Google local search algorithm changes — that we’re calling the Pigeon update — one thing appears […]
Google Quick Answers Adds Images
Google’s quick answer results have recently added images to some of the answers. Alex Chitu spotted this and I was able to replicate it for many queries. Such as for [how old is barack obama] to [how many children does michael jordan have?] Here are both desktop views and mobile views of the images in […]