Businessweek
Margo Sugarman spent months last year searching on Google for the appliances to complete her dream kitchen, scouring the Internet for information on the latest double ovens and low-noise mixers. Not only did those queries guide the Tel Mond, Israel, ...
Dr. Google? Study Says Not So Fast
ABC News
In a study of 1300 Google search results related to infant sleep safety, researchers found that only 43.5 percent of websites provided accurate information. The rest were either inaccurate or irrelevant. "It is important for health care providers to realize the extent ...
ABC News
Love and Lust Are Seasonal, Google Study Finds
LiveScience.com
Real-time tracking by researchers has identified a risqué trend in winter and early summer — people on the Internet looking for love — or at least sex. In a new study published this month in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior researchers tracked Google ...
Google Webmaster Tools Adds Structured Data Dashboard & CNAME Verification
Search Engine Land
Structured data is a big part of Google's search results and discovery process and to make it easier for webmasters to understand what structured data Google has indexed from your web site, Google introduced a new section under the “Optimization” section ...
Content Confusion: Why Webmasters Fail – Time After Time
Search Engine Journal
Instead of taking heed of the thousands of warnings and paying attention to what's going on within the Google algorithm and how the latest trends like Infographics have been tossed into a spam fest, SEOs are now throwing further pressure on business owners ... For someone who is as passionate about SEO as I am, it saddens me to the depths of my core to see that those same SEOs who created this “piss fight” within the SERPs, such as all the things included within Panda and Penguin, are the same SEOs who are ...
What does Google Fiber mean for the rest of us?
ZDNet (blog)
Google's entry into residential fiber, though, is interesting for its role in the larger market. The search giant is just beginning its work in one city - there is obviously a ways to go before Google takes this pilot to other communities. That said, Verizon, Charter, ...
ZDNet (blog)
Google Street View Lands at Kennedy Space Center
PCWorld
The search giant teamed up with NASA to create Google's largest special collection of Street View photos featuring 6000 panoramic views of NASA's historic site for its space-faring missions. Home page of Google Street View's NASA/Kennedy Space Center ...
Google Book Search Case Threatens Librarians' Access to Information
Kansas City infoZine
"Google Book Search is a reference tool that helps people find books. It doesn't take the place of sales," said EFF Fellow Michael Barclay. "The fair use doctrine allows for services like GoogleBook Search – they cause no economic harm and serve the ...
Google Webmaster Tools Adds CNAME Verification & Structured Data Dashboard
Search Engine Watch
Two new Google Webmaster Tools features are now available to site owners: a structured data dashboard with site, item type, and page-level views, as well as a new domain verification option using DNS CNAME records. ... Google uses structured data like rich snippets to allow webmasters to highlight certain types of information in search results. ... Like Reading Search Engine Watch? ... Redesigned Bing Webmaster Tools Rises With New SEO Reports & Data ...Google Panda Alert: Data Refresh Starts Tonight ...
Google passes Apple, reclaims lead in 'media value,' study says
CNET
The search giant earned an estimated $756.6 million in brand value through news outlets, social media, and Twitter last quarter, according to a new study. Don Reisinger. by Don Reisinger. August 2, 2012 9:37 AM PDT. (Credit: General Sentiment, Inc.) Google led global industry in attracting "media value" -- a measure that attempts to put a dollar value on buzz -- in the second quarter, according to data from social analytics company General Sentiment. During the second quarter, Google's coverage in online news ...
Google Search Is Burying The Past
BuzzFeed
If I search for [olympics], I probably want information about next summer's upcoming Olympics, not the 1900 Summer Olympics (the only time my favorite sport, cricket, was played). Google Search uses a freshness algorithm, designed to give you the most ...
Google Revamps Wallet; iOS Dock Connector Rumors; New Online Rules for Kids
PC Magazine
Google Wallet now accepts all major credit cards as part of the search giant's cloud overhaul, which allows the use of virtual plastic from Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover while shopping in-store or online. The upgrade also offers remote ...
Google Shopping discounts are about to expire
InternetRetailer.com
Here's the deal: Google is offering merchants that create product listing ads by Aug. 15 a monthly credit for 10% of their total product listing ad spend through the end of 2012. Google also is offering merchants that now take part in Product Search $100 worth ...
Here's How to Appear Higher on Google Search Results [INFOGRAPHIC]
Mashable
Here's How to Appear Higher on Google Search Results [INFOGRAPHIC] · Zoe Fox August 2, 2012 by Zoe Fox 6 ... Only 2% of individuals own the entire first page of their results. BrandYourself, an online reputation management startup, created this infographic to help you learn how to make results that are actually you appear higher up in search results. ... Having the same name as an andromeda character never helped me in SEO but these tips did a bit. lol. August 2, 2012 13:57:58 Reply 0 Flag this comment ...
What Everyone Needs To Know About Good, Bad & Bland Links
Search Engine Land
Google and Bing have been clear, search engines do not use every link as a ranking signal; they ignore many links. While they ... Another reason I believesearch engines look for patterns across different types of signals is to prevent negative SEO. It would be ...
Search Engine Land
Google it?: Internet searches often provide inaccurate information about infant ...
Science Codex
However, according to a study scheduled for publication in The Journal of Pediatrics, Googleinternet searches related to infant sleep safety often do not reflect AAP recommendations. ...checked the accuracy of information on infant sleep safety available on the internet, usingGoogle, the top search engine in the U.S. Thirteen key phrases were created to reflect specific AAP recommendations for infant sleep safety, and the first 100 search engine websites were analyzed for each phrase (1300 websites total). Of 1300 ...
Google Plans $184 Million Finland Data-Center Expansion
Bloomberg
Google Inc. (GOOG), owner of the world's most-popular search engine, plans to spend 150 million euros ($184 million) to expand its data center in Finland as demand rises for online access to video and data. The construction work to expand the facility in ...
Checking Out Shopping SERPs: Put Yourself In A Search Engine's Shoes
Search Engine Land
However, the moral of the story is as follows: Supply as much accurate information as possible in any data feed sent to Google or other search or shopping engines. Ensure you add structured/semantic markup to your webpages and that it matches the data ...
Search Engine Land
What happened when I used only Google gear
Fortune
I'm not referring to Google (GOOG) search, Gmail, or Google Docs. Millions of users have already taken that plunge, myself included. I mean day-to-day life within the (largely) open-sourced walls of Google's ever-expanding product ecosystem. That's not ...
Fortune
Google tackles rogue Android app problem with new rules
BBC News
Google is attempting to crack down on rogue mobile apps on its Android platform with stricter guidelines for developers. The measures include a ban on using icons that are "confusingly similar" to that of existing products. The search giant also issued rules on ...
BBC News
Google Acquires Wildfire And Enters Into Social Ads
Trefis
Earlier this year Google launched social search, an integration of Google+ with the Google search engine. In this service, if a person in a user's circle has +1′ed a similar search result, the specific result will show as one of the top results in new searches.
Google attacking Facebook's home turf
MarketWatch
By John Shinal. SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Google Inc.'s acquisition of social-media marketing start-up Wildfire Interactive earlier this week highlights a major flaw in the thinking of Facebook Inc. bulls. ... This type of marketing is still in its infancy, but as it grows more sophisticated, these campaigns all will be targeted based on the behavior of social-media users and the personal data contained in their profiles (just as search advertising is now targeted at keywords typed into search requests). That's an ...
Google photos celebrate Kennedy Space Center's 50th birthday
CNET
Those of you who've never seen an actual space shuttle or Apollo module up close can now get a taste of the real thing courtesy of Google Street View. Commemorating the past 50 years of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the search giant has unveiled ...
Google Wallet Now Supports All Major Credit, Debit Cards
RedOrbit
Google Wallet is opening the way people could pay for those goods or services and on Wednesday the search giant announced that the Google Wallet will support all major credit and debit cards. Additionally the Google Wallet is opening to the clouds.
RedOrbit
Will Google Wallet take off now?
MSN Money
The king of search just opened up its mobile payment system, Google Wallet, which had been limited to Citibank cards, to all credit and debit cards, including Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover. That means you can now sync any credit card ...
Google to developers: the reason we don't have a G+ API yet is we don't want to ...
VentureBeat
Google+ would have a full read and write API today if the world's largest search engine company knew how to release it in a way that wouldn't screw developers. At least, that's what Google's senior vice president for Google+ implied in a personal status ...
VentureBeat
Gmail: The google muddle
Moneylife Personal Finance site and magazine
Google has changed the way we live. Today, even when we misplace our car keys, we tend to rush to Google to search for them. So, even as Google worms its way deep into our psyche, does it realise its responsibility towards the millions whose sociology ...
Moneylife Personal Finance site and magazine
AppleScript to get Google search URL - Apple - eWallstreeter
In Safari 6, with the new combined URL and search field, if you type search terms into the field, then press return, you'll get a Google page with the results, but you won't get a search URL in the address field. Some people want to save ...
eWallstreeter
August 2012 Google Toolbar PageRank Update - Search Engine ...
By barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)
I am seeing reports in the various forums, including DigitalPoint Forums and WebmasterWorld that Google has updated their toolbar PageRank values for many many sites...
Search Engine Roundtable
Social Discovery Is Pushing Search and Social Closer
By Dave Copeland
Persistent rumors of a Facebook search engine, Google's efforts to integrate Google+ into itssearch results and Microsoft's addition of Facebook tagging into Bing results. (This is Part 2 in a series of articles about social discovery. You can ...
ReadWriteWeb
Google searches central banks' latest economic tool | Economy ...
Margo Sugarman spent months last year searching on Google for the appliances to complete her dream kitchen, scouring the Internet for information on the latest double ovens and low-noise mixers. Not only did those queries guide the Tel ...
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EFF And Library Associations File Amicus Brief in Google ... - Typepad
By Joe Hodnicki
The brief, by its terms, does not duplicate Google's arguments, though it amplifies some of them by describing the utility of Google Book Search to libraries and the general public. The application to fair use comes in the form of scanning to ...
Law Librarian Blog
Dear Google Analytics…. Please Help Make Our ... - State of Search
By Sam Noble
Since the launch of the new Google Analytics platform I have generally been pleased with the updates, but there are still a few issues that keep cropping up that make our lives very difficult. I have spoken to a number of people in the Digital ...
State of Search
Weekly Poll: Are You Impressed by Google Now? | Android.AppStorm
By Michael James Williams
Are You Impressed by Google Now? ... Those of you with a Nexus device (or one of the few other phones and tablets with an official Jelly Bean update or unofficial ROM) have surely already tried out Google Now. What do you think of it? I hate to say it, but I'm a little disappointed — it doesn't feel ready ... But “Play music” just loads the Google search results for [play music] (of which the first result is the Play Store listing for, yep, Play Music). To make the phone play music, I have to say, ...
Android.AppStorm
By Michael James Williams
Are You Impressed by Google Now? ... Those of you with a Nexus device (or one of the few other phones and tablets with an official Jelly Bean update or unofficial ROM) have surely already tried out Google Now. What do you think of it? I hate to say it, but I'm a little disappointed — it doesn't feel ready ... But “Play music” just loads the Google search results for [play music] (of which the first result is the Play Store listing for, yep, Play Music). To make the phone play music, I have to say, ...
Android.AppStorm
Rovi and Google sign multi-year patent licensing agreement ...
By Edwin Kee
Well, here we are with news that both Rovi and Internet search giant Google have signed a multi-year patent licensing agreement between one another. Just what kind of implications does this agreement have? It will offer a license under ...
Ubergizmo
What You Can Do To Prevent Panda and Penguin Hit - SEO
By Ben Austin
What You Can Do To Prevent Panda and Penguin Hit. It has been observed that wheneverGoogle release a search engine algorithm update or change many SEO companies and SEOconsultants have been reacting like the sky is falling.
SEO Positive
Google prioritizes ranking and drives traffic to your site | Digital Bard ...
By brittany
Certainly, Google isn't the only search engine out there, but it is the biggest. So understanding the role it plays in your overall marketing strategy and how to leverage a tool like ads is important to the success of your online marketing efforts.
Digital Bard Video. Web. Marketing.
Google Announces Remarketing with Google Analytics | The Search ...
By Anne Garcia
Google has just announced that it has enhanced its Remarketing options for advertisers by rolling out a new feature called Remarketing with Google Analytics.
The Search Engine Marketing Blog...
Custom Search Widgets - Custom Search — Google Developers
The Google Custom Search API currently supports Firefox 1.5+, IE6+, Safari, ... for developers who wish to add Google Custom Search functionality to their ...
https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/widgets
Google Search Tip 25 - Birthdays & Birthplaces - YouTube
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfc_U9H6LMI&list...
Google Book Search Case Threatens Librarians' Access to Information
For years, Google has been cooperating with libraries to digitize books for a searchabledatabase available to the public. Google Book Search now includes ...
https://www.eff.org/.../google-book-search-case-threatens-libra...
Google search calculator - Google Product Forums
Google search calculator, a_miller9, 7/24/12 9:55 PM, I like the new calculator built into thegoogle search, but I see one serious flaw in it. The fact that I can't use ...
productforums.google.com/d/topic/websearch/-3pEsDNxmaU
Google Search Tips « Author EMS
Well, of course, a professional investigator would know the best tips on being efficient in asearch, right? But he shares 181 Google Tricks That Will Save You ...
www.authorems.com/2012/google-search-tips/
Search Playground – Inside Search – Google
Puppies Space travel? Chocolate cake? For anything you love, get even more into it by searchingnumerous Google products from one place. What do you love ...
www.google.com/intl/en_uk/insidesearch/.../index.html
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