Calling All Young Scientists: Google Accepting Submissions For Annual Science Fair

Google announced its annual Science Fair today, calling for project submissions from students worldwide, age 13 to 18. This year’s Google Science Fair grand prize winner will get a trip to Spaceport America in New Mexico to meet the Virgin Galactic team as they prepare for a space flight….

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Google Showing Restaurant Menus In Card-Style Search Result

Google has started showing complete restaurant menus in its search results when a query specifically looks for menu information. We think Allie Brown was the first to spot this when she shared the results of a search for “jones brunch menu” on Twitter. For that query, Google begins the…

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Bing Beats Google With Bitcoin Conversion Tool

First Yandex, now Bing, has beaten Google to offer Bitcoin conversion prices. Bing has announced that people can find the current rates by doing a search on Bing. Bing shared the news in a blog post today. It can be triggered in various ways, such as asking “one dollar in bitcoin,”…

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How Google Glass Will Change Search — And What It Means For You

Last week, Google officially announced that Glass will be made available for purchase to the general public by the end of the year. The impending launch of Glass is exciting, but it does present some new challenges for search marketers. Given the differences between how Google Glass handles search…

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YP Wants To Compete Directly With Google And Yelp In Local

When one looks across the local digital landscape there are many companies and apps but few consumer “brands.” In specific verticals, like travel or automotive, there are companies such as TripAdvisor or Cars.com. But “horizontally” on a national level there are very few top-of-mind, major players….

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French Privacy Agency’s Site Crashes, After Demanding Link From Google France Home Page

Be careful what you wish for. In this case, the French privacy agency CNiL demanded that Google link from the Google France home page to a privacy ruling made against it. Google complied — and now the traffic seems to have slowed and sometimes crashed the CNiL web site. Our story on Marketing…

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Google Now Ranks No. 2 Behind Apple As The 2nd Most Valuable Company In America

Bloomberg.com reported today Google has moved ahead of Exxon Mobile Corp to become the second most valuable company in America following Apple. According to Bloomberg, Google’s market capitalization totals $ 393.5 billion, representing less than a billion more than Exxon’s $ 392.6…

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Google Penalized A Germany Agency & Their Clients For Link Schemes, Says Matt Cutts

Soon after Google has warned Germany SEOs about paid links and link schemes, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted on Twitter that they took action on a German agency and their clients for link schemes. Matt Cutts wrote, “this week we took action on a German agency’s…

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Wow! See How Much Screen Real Estate Google Is Giving Rivals In Its EU Antitrust Settlement

Google’s finally reached a proposed agreement with the European Union over antitrust charges. Judging from screenshots the EU has released, it will give Google rivals unprecedented positioning in Google’s results, sometimes for free, sometimes for a fee. Consider how the EU is saying…

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Google Showing Large Video Embeds In Some Search Results

Now, if you search Google for video related content, Google may return a large, playable, video directly at the top of the search results. For example, searching for [sing it loud come around] shows a large YouTube video that you can play directly in the search results. Searching for [neil young…

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