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Game On! Google’s Knowledge Graph Now Shows Video Games
As of a couple days ago, Google’s Knowledge Graph now includes information about video games! For those of you unfamiliar with the Knowledge Graph, it’s the box that appears on the right side of search results usually for searches like famous people, books, movies, and businesses. It includes pertinent, concise …
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Is Apple Pay Keeping Google Wallet Away? Yelp Gets Posh + More!
1. Apple Pay Launches as a part of iOS 8.1 – Mashable On Monday, one of iOS 8’s most anticipated features, Apple Pay, went live. iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus users only had to download the iOS 8.1 update and add a credit card to Passbook to start using …
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Google Gives Answers To Life, Love, & The Universe
As you may or may not have noticed, prevalence of Google’s answer boxes among search results has increased dramatically. Google’s algorithm updates have always pushed the search engine to more closely mirror the human searchers, aiming to provide the best answer to each question. With the collection of Google’s Knowledge …
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What’s Black and White and Impacts 3-5% of Search Queries? Panda 4.1!
In the last two months, Google has been busy improving the Panda. In early August (Aug. 8, 2014, to be exact), there was a lot of chatter from the SEO community seeing the flux in Google Analytics accounts, which was generally accepted as an unconfirmed monthly Panda data refresh. In early …
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Five For Friday: Paging Dr. Google, Panda 4.1 Is On The Loose, And More!
1. Google Gets a Medical Degree -Mashable In what may prove to be the coolest Google project all year, reports have surfaced that the search engine plans to implement a feature to their already lauded Helpouts initiative. The new project will attempt to take health-related symptomatic searches and connect users …
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Five For Friday: Amazon Gets Physical, Tinder Cleans Up, & G+ Asks, Am I Pretty?
1. Google Testing New Local Interface In Web Search Results – Search Engine Roundtable Google is testing a new interface for showing the local web search results. Back in August, we saw that Google was showing the local carousel within the results, but this new interface is simply a list of …
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5 For Friday: Winning at Local Search, Snippets in Search, & Investing in Content
1. Google Structured Snippets Officially in Search Results – Search Engine Land Schema markup and other forms of structured data are being used by webmasters to display Google structured snippets, but this isn’t the only way more data is pulled into the search results. Google has been testing out new …
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The Beheading of Google Authorship
So unless you’ve been living under a rock, you already know, or at least have an idea, of what happened to Google Authorship. Back in June, we saw the ominous sign that Google removed Authorship circle count and photos from search results. Between its low implementation rates and high error of …
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5 For Friday: Local Search, News, Advice, Measuring Success, and Penguin Refresh
1. Local Businesses: Watch Out! – Search Engine Watch Apple’s newest gadget, the Apple Watch, is likely to have a major impact on local search. The expected increase in hyper-local searches means added pressure will be placed on businesses to ensure they can be found easily online. “Users will be …
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Tiny Houses and Tiny Spaces: Making the best use out of space
The term “Netflix” is Internet speak for “how to kill 2 hours on a rainy Saturday evening.” Well, it was one of those times, and I had stumbled upon Tiny: A Story About Living Small. This documentary shows Christopher Smith’s yearlong journey to find a home of his own. To …
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