Topic: World War II

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 […]

World War II, Communism Subtext In Right To Be Forgotten

From an American legal perspective, the recently established European Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF) is a disaster. It’s a confusing, vague, impractical and possibly even dangerous decision. But from a European historical perspective, it makes considerable sense. The different histories of the U.S. and Europe in the 20th Century have shaped different attitudes and rules […]

Percy Julian Gets Google Logo Marking The Famous Chemist’s 115th Birthday

Today’s Google logo honors renown chemist Percy Lavon Julian, the first African American scientist to be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences. During his career, Julian made a number of significant chemical advancements, including the creation of Aero-Foam, a soy-based product widely used to extinguish fires during World War II. Julian discovered how to […]

Google Search OneBox Answers Are Getting More Detailed

There are several reports throughout the search community that Google’s OneBox answers or a form of the knowledge graph, are now more aggressive about answering even more complex questions with more detailed responses or answers. When we asked Google about this, a Google spokesperson told us, “we’re always experimenting with different types of answers, but […]

Veterans Day Google Logo Commemorates Holiday With A Portrait Of A Veterans Day Parade & Float

Today’s Google Logo commemorates Veterans Day with a portrait-styled image featuring soldiers atop a red, white and blue parade float. In the painting, parade onlookers watch a Veterans Day float with a prominently displayed American flag and a collection of men in uniform. Google’s letters have been painted in red, white and blue stripes as […]

Google Honors Maria Mitchell With Logo To Celebrate Her 195th Birthday

Today’s Google logo celebrates the first professional female astronomer in the US, Maria Mitchell. The animated logo depicts Mitchell atop a roof, staring at the stars with a handheld telescope. Before becoming a professional astronomer, Mitchell discovered a comet in 1847 that was named Miss Mitchell’s Comet. In recognition of her discovery, she was awarded […]

China Appears To Admit Cyberattacks On US

Circumstantial and indirect evidence has long implicated the Chinese government and its surrogates in numerous incidents of digital espionage and other hacking into US corporations’ and government-owned websites and databases. The infamous Gmail hacking episode that triggered Google’s censorship protest and “withdrawal” from the Chinese search market is only one example. The Chinese themselves have […]

Google Queries Reveal Potential “Underground” Anti-Semitism In France

French newspaper Le Monde issued a report using search query data to argue that the French are pre-occupied with whether their leaders (and would-be leaders) are Jewish. According to AFP, data from Google’s search suggest/auto-complete function indicates that French people are routinely searching on politicians’ names followed by the world “juif,” which means “Jewish” in […]

Could Google Play Jeopardy Like IBM’s Watson?

Like many people, I was amazed to watch IBM’s Watson supercomputer playing Jeopardy this week against past human champions. But could Google have done the same thing? Let’s go behind the scenes of these two search masters to understand what they can — and can’t — do.

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Too Late For Thanksgiving & Too Early For Diwali

So global search marketers, should you be studying major religious festivals to understand their impact on your peaks and troughs — after all they may explain why your seasonal patterns globally don’t match what you’re used to. Making notes of the major festivals which will take place during your campaign year in the markets you are targeting can help.

SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 5, 2010

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Two Simple Rules For Fixing High Bounce Rate Pages Of all the metrics that I struggle and fight with, probably the easiest one I’ve found to correct is a high bounce […]

Google Earth Adds World War II Imagery

The Google LatLong Blog announced the addition of World War II imagery to Google Earth. Now you can compare, side by side, the earth as it is today versus how it was during World War II. Google said: Images taken in 1943 show the effect of wartime bombing on more than 35 European towns and […]

Google Asked To Remove “Mount Hitler” From Google Maps

Google Earth urged to remove “Mount Hitler” name from Reuters has the politics behind Mount Hitler on Google Maps from Google Blogoscoped, earlier this week. Basically, if you fly over the “foothills of the Alps region” in Google Earth, you will see “Mount Hitler” labeled on the map. Andreas Wiedemann, mayor of Bad Toelz, said […]