Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Getting it done: how to overcome common link building blockers Jun 26, 2018 by Paddy Moogan Link building is tough to begin with and made harder when company policies slow down […]
After killing off prayer time results in Google several years ago, Google brings the feature back for some regions.
Decision is dangerous to free speech and the free flow of online information.
Born in Iraq, Hadid studied art and architecture at the Architectural Association in London.
CNIL in France refuses to compromise on demand that Google remove all Right to Be Forgotten content from its entire index.
About a year ago, Google introduced a new rich snippets for prayer times. That rich snippet has now been decommissioned due to lack of webmaster implementation. The purpose was to show useful prayer times for those who are searching Google for Islamic, Jewish or other prayer times in the Google search results. Here is a […]
In a sound byte that might remind you of Baghdad Bob*, Iran’s police chief has announced that Google is a tool for spying. And not only that, but the Iranian government is also using that and other concerns to form a “national internet” under state control. Esmail Ahmadi Moghaddam made his comments this week to […]
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 Voice Search Coming To Xbox Later this year, Bing search will take on a new platform: the Xbox entertainment/gaming console. And to prove that it’s all cutting edge stuff in […]
A little over a month ago, Google announced a new rich snippet markup for prayer times. I was very intrigued by this rich snippet because of the complexities behind how prayer times for both the Islamic and Jewish faith work. In short, if you do a search asking Google for prayer times in a location, […]
It’s a well known feature of Google. Start typing in a search, and Google offers suggestions before you’ve even finished typing. But how does Google come up with those suggestions? When does Google remove some suggestions? When does Google decide not to interfere? Come along for some answers.
When working on a presentation about search today, I did a “how do I” search on Google to see what was suggested as topics. To my surprise, “How do I delete my Facebook account” was one of the top choices: Is this new? It could be that this suggestion has been there for months, and […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Meet The New Google & Its Colorful, Useful “Search Options” Column After months of testing, Google is releasing a new look-and-feel for its search results today, a three column design that […]
Google has crippled its search suggestions tool for some search terms that refer to particular races and/or nationalities of people. The company says it’s a deliberate move based on Google’s policy against violence and hate speech, and not a technical bug like the one that led the phrase “islam is” to be disabled earlier this […]
Google says it’s working to fix a bug in Google Suggest that is blocking search suggestions related to Islam. As The Next Web has reported, typing Islam is into Google shows no terms from Google Suggest. But replace Islam with a number of other major religions — such as Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, etc. — and […]
When it comes to search privacy, one of the biggest worries in my book has been the US government’s ability under the Patriot Act to make secret requests for information that no one can know about. Last year this was ruled unconstitutional by one judge. Today, news is out about the Internet Archive winning against […]