The Test Begins: Do Google Shopping & Other Shopping Search Engines Give You The Best Deals?

It sounds pretty damning. Two recent surveys suggest that Google Shopping isn’t leading searchers to the best prices on products. But the surveys weren’t well documented, nor did they include competitors like Bing, Shopzilla, PriceGrabber and Nextag, which have similar issues. So,…

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Google Adds Cars To Knowledge Graph

Google announced on Google+ that they have expanded the knowledge graph to include automobile/car information. So if you search for [2014 Honda Accord] or [2014 Mazda3] or other car make and models, you will see information about that car on the right hand side panel’s knowledge graph box….

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New Google Trends Topic Reports Designed To Deliver More Accurate Results

Google Trends is rolling out new topic reports designed to deliver more accurate results, as well as offer topic predictions within the reports. Using Google’s example, now when a user searches for “rice” in a trends report, they will see topic predictions like “Rice…

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Google Shopping Outpaces Amazon Same-Seller Sales On Cyber Monday, Black Friday

Over the extended holiday shopping weekend, Google Shopping same seller sales have been growing faster than Amazon among large retailers. According to the most recent data from online retail commerce platform Mercent, Google Shopping contributed 54 percent year-over-year same-seller growth on Cyber…

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Search In Pics: Google Drinking Glass, Google Partners Cake & Animated Google Bus Ads

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 Drinking Glass: Source: Google+ Google Partners Cake: Source:…

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“NORAD Tracks Santa” Is Back With Bing For 2013 & Will Santa Tracking Match At Google?

It’s official. NORAD Tracks Santa, the annual Santa tracking effort run by the joint US-Canadian air defense organization, will be using Microsoft’s Bing for the second year to map Santa’s route. But will Google be mapping Santa on a different route, as happened when it ran its…

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Google Keyword Planner Now Shows Trademarked Terms

At some point recently, Google started to indicate terms that are trademarked in the Keyword Planner with the TM mark. Dan Shure of Evolving SEO tweeted about the new feature, noting that McDonald’s “I’m Lovin’ It” tagline is not marked as trademarked while…

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Google Enables “OK Google” Hands-Free Voice Search On PCs

Through a Chrome browser extension users can now invoke the hotword (or hot phrase) “OK Google” to initiate hands-free searches on the PC. Voice search on Chrome was possible before but you needed to manually select the microphone. After the browser extension is installed you simply…

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