Google adds 30 languages to voice search & makes it possible to use emojis with voice typing
Included among the new languages are Swahili and Amharic, two of the most popular African languages.
Topic: Google Translate
Gboard for Android gets new ways to search for emojis & phrase suggestions
The Android version of Gboard will now anticipate what phrase you're about to type and offer possible suggestions.
Google adds emoji & GIF suggestions, translations & more to GBoard for Android
The latest updates give Android users access to emoji and GIF suggestions as they type and the ability to share GIFs in supported apps.
SearchCap: Fake news, Google date bug & Bing Partners
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Partner Program expands to agencies and technology partners, rolling out to more marketsNov 15, 2016 by Ginny Marvin Customers that meet certain engagement criteria can become eligible for program benefits. […]
Google labels your links, such as ‘footer’ or Penguin-impacted
Google's manual action team has access to look at a page's link labels and may use that to dig deeper into the site's activities.
SearchCap: Google voice queries, Google search test & Bing tag helper
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 appeals French order to censor Right-to-Be-Forgotten links globallyMay 19, 2016 by Greg Sterling Google is taking its case to France’s highest administrative court. Bing launches UET Tag Helper, a troubleshooting […]
SearchCap: Google bans payday loan ads, Alexa works with Kayak & 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: Google bans ads for payday and high-interest loans May 11, 2016 by Ginny Marvin As of July 13, the ads will no longer be accepted in AdWords. A script for getting […]
SearchCap: Google Maps controls, shopping ads & 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: Google Maps now with keyboard based navigation controls Apr 28, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Pan, zoom and find businesses on Google Maps without touching your mouse. How to help your sales […]
Google’s manual action penalty this weekend was over free product reviews
The mass Google manual actions for outbound links was related to the warning Google gave a few weeks ago around bloggers giving links in exchange for free products or services.
Google Takes Action On 65% Of User-Generated Spam Reports
Google's Juan Felipe Rincon shares statistics on how many spam reports Google receives from users and how often they act on them.
Google Has Penalized A Link Network In Japan
After being quiet for over a year on link network penalties, Google says it has penalized a large, Japanese-based link network.
SearchCap: Santa, Google NCR & SEO Success
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Authoritative Links: Search Engine Land’s 10 Top Link Week Columns Of 2015Dec 28, 2015 by Jessica Thompson Though naysayers continue to predict the death of link building, it’s still going strong. […]
SearchCap: User Science Behind Long-Form Content, Bid Boosting On Bing & Google’s Customer Match
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 SEO And User Science Behind Long-Form Content Sep 28, 2015 by John E. Lincoln Nobody wants to read long pages of content on the internet, right? Columnist John Lincoln disagrees, […]
Microsoft Translator App Comes To iOS & Android With Wearable Support
Microsoft launches a new mobile app for real-time translation to compete with Google's Google Translate app.
Google Translate App Adds 20 More Languages To The Instant Visual Translation Feature
The Google Instant Translation app gets a lot more powerful.
SearchCap: Bing Powers AOL, Uber To Bing Maps & Google+ Gone From Google Search
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+ Brand Posts Have Been Stripped From Knowledge Graph Cards Brand posts on Google+ will no longer be displayed in the Knowledge Graph cards, instead they’ll be treated like all other […]
SearchCap: Google Mobile Tests, DuckDuckGo Queries & Retargeting AdWords
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 10 Top Retargeting Tips For AdWords Users Are you making the most of your remarketing efforts? Columnist Rebekah Schelfhout has some expert insights you may not have considered! How To Learn […]
SearchCap: Google Revenge Porn Form, Bing Ads Columns & Google Cache Update
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Refreshes Video Search: Adds Bigger Thumbnail Images & Offers More Info Video search results now include channel, upload date and view count details. Google Will Allow People To Block “Revenge […]
Mobilegeddon Begins: Here’s How It’s Going With Rollout Of Google’s Mobile Friendly Update
What to expect when the Google mobile friendly update is released today...
SearchCap: Bing Images & Places, Yahoo Testing & Google Mobile Lite
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Places Adds Several Agency-Friendly Local Business Listing Tools Agency dashboard offers local listing management, sharing with clients, features for chain businesses and more. Is Yahoo Testing Non-Bing Powered Search Results? […]
Google Suggesting Firefox Users Change Their Search Engine & Home Page
Yahoo won the deal to be the default search engine in Firefox in November; now after losing some search share, Google's fighting back.
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 […]
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.
SearchCap: Google Car Insurance, DMCA Takedowns, Urbanspoon & Super Bowl Answers
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Zomato Buys Urbanspoon For $50 – $60 Million To Enter US Local Search Market International restaurant search provider Zomato has acquired Urbanspoon from IAC for between $50 and $60 million in […]
Report: Google Translate To Provide Real-Time Translation Via App
Google Translate to soon offer real-time translation between two people, much like the Microsoft Skype translation demo we saw months ago.
SearchCap: Yahoo Directory, Google Lyrics & Santa On Christmas
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Yes, Steve Scalise, There Was A Google In 2002 US House of Representatives majority whip says Google not being “available” in 2002 prevented vetting his speaking to group of white supremacists. […]
Google Translate Shows Santa Claus Picture As Easter Egg
Google loves easter eggs and here is a special one for the holiday season. Search for Santa Claus on Google Translate.
SearchCap: Making Your Website Evergreen, Bing Upgrades Safe Search & No More Credit Cards For Adwords Customers
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Search In Pics: The Google Flood, Drunk Penguin & Storm Preparation In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at […]
Google Made 890 Improvements To Search Over The Past Year
In a Google+ post from Google head of search Amit Singhal, Google shares they have made “more than 890 improvements to Google Search last year alone.” In 2009, Google told us they made between 350 to 400 changes to search and in 2010, they said they made 550 improvements to search in the past year. […]
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 […]
Blogger Fined By French Court Because Negative Restaurant Review Was Too Prominent In Google
A French court has ordered a blogger to pay a substantial fine and change the title of a restaurant review because the review was too prominent in search results and harmed business at the restaurant. The post has since been removed but can be viewed here (via TechDirt). The restaurant, Il Giardino, complained to the […]
Google Hits Poland Again With Link Network Penalties
Four months after Google’s first link network penalty in Poland, Google has targeted an additional two Polish link networks this morning. Google’s Karolina Kruszynska, a spam fighter, posted on Twitter that the most recent wide spread manual action targeted two link networks in Poland: @rustybrick We took action on two link networks. — Karolina Kruszyńska […]
Russian Search Engine Yandex Now 100% “Not Provided,” Blocks Referrer Data
Yandex announced (in Russian) today that they have now went 100% secure, encrypting all search queries, resulting in a huge jump in the [not provided] count. This was first reported by Anna Oshkalo who shared a screen shot of her analytics detailed the bulk of her Yandex keyword data now shows [not set] or [not […]
SearchCap: Google’s Secret Translate Service, Animated 3D Maps & Bing Wake Times
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing: The Earliest & Latest Searchers By City Microsoft Bing posted data on the earliest risers by city based on Bing usage data. Bing said they “thought it would be interesting […]
Google’s April Fools’ Day Jokes For 2014: Google Maps Pokémon Challenge, Magic Hand & More
Is it just me, or does it seem like Google starts celebrating April Fools’ Day earlier and earlier every year? No company on the web takes April 1st more seriously than Google, as we’ve been covering for years now. So what about this year’s April Fools’ Day antics? Let’s have a look. Google Maps: Pokémon Challenge It […]
Google Penalizes Italian & Spanish Link Networks
As promised, Google has taken manual action to penalize link networks in Italy and Spain. It was just four days ago that Google warned webmasters in those two countries about its rules on paid links and willingness to take action against websites that violate those rules. The penalties were announced separately on Friday by Google […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 13, 2014
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Ads Expands Mobile Sitelinks Coverage In US, Will Roll Out To EU Markets Bing Ads announced today that it will complete roll out of sitelink extensions on mobile devices in […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 10, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: It’s True! Bing Ads Allows Use Of Exclamation Mark In Ad Titles After reading the news yesterday that Bing Ads has made a change to its Editorial Guidelines prohibiting third-party sellers […]
Google Patent Search Expands To China, Germany, Canada & WIPO
Google announced they have expanded their database of patent documents within Google Patent Search to include patent documents from an additional set of agencies. The new patent agencies included in Google Patent search include China, Germany, Canada, and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Since the database now includes patent documents from around the world, […]