Google Made 890 Improvements To Search Over The Past Year

In a Google+ post from Google’s 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…

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SearchCap: Google Penalty, AdWords Website Call Conversions & Pigeon Fears

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 Launches Ability To Track “Website Call Conversions” In AdWords Today, Google launched a what’s likely to become a popular new feature…

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Google Launches Ability To Track “Website Call Conversions” In AdWords

Today, Google launched a what’s likely to become a popular new feature for many AdWords advertisers. Website call conversions allow advertisers to track calls that occur after a user arrives on a web site from an ad click. A code snippet dynamically inserts a Google forwarding number on the…

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Google Now Offers Alternative Flights On Delayed Or Cancelled Flights

The Android Community reports a two new features added to Google Now. The main new feature is that Google will suggest alternative flights or options when your flight is delayed or cancelled. If Google detects your flight is delayed or cancelled, Google “can suggest alternate routes or…

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Search In Pics: Google Excavations, Google Massage Rooms & Cusco Peru Office

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Google London Massage Rooms: Source: Google+ Sleeping Google Street View…

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SearchCap: AdWords Close Variants, comScore Search Rankings & Google Now Flights

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: ComScore: Yahoo Bounces Back From All-Time Low In Search Share After dropping below a 10% market share for search for the first time in June, Yahoo creeped back…

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Google Responds To Mass Negative SEO Extortion Emails

There are widespread reports within the industry of negative SEO extortion emails being sent to website owners, webmasters, SEOs and others. The emails are claiming that an evil SEO will ruin the site’s ranking in Google and other search engines if they do not come up and wire $ 1,500 to the…

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SearchCap: Negative SEO Extortion Scam, Apple Maps Dominates Google & Bing Ads Top Movers

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 Responds To Mass Negative SEO Extortion Emails There are widespread reports within the industry of negative SEO extortion emails being sent to website…

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SearchCap: Microsoft Catapult, Google HTTPS Factors & Bing Conversational 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: BrightLocal Opens Its 2014 Local SEO Industry Survey Local SEO firm BrightLocal has posted its third annual local SEO industry survey, asking SEO professionals to…

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Google Webmaster Guidelines Update Calls “Low Quality Guest Blog Posts” Spam

Google has updated their webmaster guidelines, specifically in the little or no original content guideline, to add “low-quality guest blog posts” as an example of “scraped content.” Brian Ussery first spotted this change, noting how Google has been fighting the use of guest…

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