Google Shopping Adds New Consumer Features Ahead Of The Holidays

Google is continuing to tweak the Google Shopping experience ahead of the holidays. With its sights set on Amazon, this week the search engine announced a new set of features for consumers. Whether searching on a desktop, tablet or smartphone, the product previews stay within the main screen for…

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Google Maps Makes Exception & Speeds Up Process To Replace Image Of Shooting Victim

Google Maps is making an exception to its process for reviewing image removal requests, and speeding up the actions needed to replace a satellite image of a 14-year old shooting victim. Following a story broadcast on KTVU-TV, a CNN affiliate in Oakland, California and a report on CNN.com, Google…

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Google & Microsoft Agree To Block Child Sexual Abuse Material From Search Results

The Mail Online reports Google and Microsoft Bing have adjusted their search results to block child pornography and other child sexual abuse content from being accessible through their search engines. The news is being widely covered, some claiming that over a 100,000 unique searches and keywords…

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Conversion Metrics Now Available In Google AdWords Bid Simulator

The AdWords Bid Simulator tool now offers conversion estimates in addition to impressions and clicks to show how bid changes may affect conversion volume and values. For each bid option shown in the simulator, the bid simulator provides the number of conversions — both 1-per click and…

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Search In Pics: Yahoo Archery, Google Laser Doors & Google Analytics Scale

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. gFit – The Google Gym: Source: Google+ Google Laser Door Posts:…

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Google Updates AdWords Opportunities Tab With New Opportunity Types

The Opportunities Tab in Google AdWords relaunched today with several new types of opportunities displayed in one view. The campaign suggestions include where to add sitelinks and where to raise bids to show your ads more often than some of your competitors. Google also makes suggestions for…

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Yelp: We’re Second Only To Google In Local Data Quality

Yelp has long maintained that the company has one of the best (if not the best) local data sets out there. There are third parties that have come up with findings that don’t agree with that claim. Recently, Yelp decided to take matters into its own hands and benchmark itself and the quality…

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OK Google: How About OK Jarvis, OK Android, Or Even OK Barry

Android Community noticed that some other phrases outside of “OK Google” trigger the voice search on the latest Android operating system, KitKat. So I tested this on my Nexus 5 and discovered that OK Google has alternatives. I tested the following phrases that seemed to work: OK Glass…

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OK Google: How About OK Jarvis, OK Android, Or Even OK Barry

Android Community noticed that some other phrases outside of “OK Google” trigger the voice search on the latest Android operating system, KitKat. So I tested this on my Nexus 5 and discovered that OK Google has alternatives. I tested the following phrases that seemed to work: OK Glass…

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AdWords Offer Extensions Get Shut Down In Favor Of Google Offers

In February, Google announced the limited release of AdWords Offer Extensions, which allowed advertisers to dedicate extra real estate in their search ads to promoting in-store coupons and discounts. Offer Extensions didn’t make much of a splash when they debuted, and now it turns out they…

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