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Google announced that it will be expanding its use of "mobile-friendliness" as a ranking signal beginning on April 21. That gives you a little less than two months to make sure you...

Google Expands Paid Search Into A New, Obvious Place

Google announced the launch of paid search results on Google Play, which will help app makers get their products discovered and help Google add another revenue source. Google i...

Google Tests B2C Chat From Search Results

Google is testing a new feature for businesses, which would enable them to live chat with prospective customers when the user finds them in search results. The feature appears t...

Yahoo Mail Gets New Search Features

Yahoo announced the launch of some new search features for Yahoo Mail including easier folder search, refined search, and search suggestions. "Your inbox is the perfect digital...

‘Marlboro Mascot’ Yields a Funny Google Search Result Thanks to John Oliver

If you search for "Marlboro Mascot' right now in Google, the first result you'll see is an cartoon diseased lung smoking a cigarette. That's Jeff, and according to HBO's John Ol...

Google Facing Another Antitrust Probe – in Russia

Google is facing another antitrust investigation, as Russian search company Yandex has asked the country's Federal Anti-Monopoly Service to take a look at Google's practices – spec...

Google Says You Should Avoid Link Building

You know how you've been building links to your website for years, trying to get Google look upon it more favorably? Well, according to Google, you shouldn't bother doing that....

What Google’s Twitter Deal Means For You

News came out last week that Google and Twitter have struck a new deal to put real-ti...

Google Starts Returning Quick Medical Facts

Google is about to start displaying more medical information in its Knowledge Graph, enabling users to quickly search and retrieve important health info without necessarily having...

Site Takes Google Pounding, Reduces Staff

Google updates can have devastating effects on websites that depend on traffic from the search engine to thrive. It's become clear over the years that it's not wise to depend on Go...

Should Europe’s Search Law Apply To The World?

Late last year, EU regulators in Brussels said they wanted the controversial "Right to be Forgotten" ruling applied to search results on a global basis rather than just in its own...

Google ‘Update’ Impacts E-Commerce Sites

Google makes adjustments to its search algorithms every day, but sometime last week, it made one that was bigger than the average tweak, and a lot of webmasters took notice. Th...

Google And Twitter Partner On Search Again

Google and Twitter have finally reached a new deal that will see Google indexing tweets in real time, according to a...

Google Shows Call-To-Action Links For Quick Answer Results From Third-Party Sites

Back in November, people started noticing that Google was showing call-to-a...

Firefox Deal Continues To Help Yahoo, Hurt Google

In November, Yahoo and Mozilla entered a partnership that made Yahoo the default search experience on Firefox, replacing Google, which had held the spot for the past decade. The de...

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