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Google is offering some new guidance on creating homepages for international users. The company took to its Webmaster Central blog on Monday morning to discuss the topic. Speci...

Dorothy Hodgkin Gets A Google Doodle

Dorothy Hodgkin is the subject of a Google doodle today. Hodgkin was a British biochemist, who was actually born in Cairo, Egypt. Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1...

Google Shopping Results Now Rank Products On Some Queries

It appears that Google is now ranking products by their ratings in some Google Shopping results - the sponsored results that appear either at the top or on the right of the search...

Google Maps App Gets A Bunch Of New Features

Google announced some new features for its Google Maps app on Android and iOS, including lane guidance, the ability to save a map for offline use, new restaurant, bar and hotel fil...

Google Shows When You’re Near A Store That Carries A Product You Searched For

Google announced that it has added functionality to Google Now to show consumers when they're near stores that carry products they have searched for. In a...

Google: Links Will Become Less Important

Links are becoming less important as Google gets better at understanding the natural language of users' queries. That's the message we're getting from Google's latest Webmaster Hel...

Matt Cutts’ Floating Head Reminds You About Your Pages’ Body Content

Google has released a new public service announcement about putting content in the body of webpages. Naturally, this features Matt Cutts' head floating in the air....

Google Updates Guidance On ‘Sneaky’ Redirects

Google announced that it has updated its guidance for webmasters on "sneaky redirects". It has updated the...

Google On Criteria For Titles In Search Results

Google has talked about titles in search results in multiple videos in the past, but once again takes on the topic in the latest Webmaster Help video. They keep getting questio...

Google Drops Some ‘Upper Decker’ Knowledge (Courtesy Of Another Parked Domain)

Remember that story from the other day about Google's questionable "answers" as...

Pinterest Gets Better At Vertical Search, Launches ‘Guided Search’

Pinterest is positioning itself as more than just a place to pin cool pictures. It also wants to help you find ideas for things. It's not as though people haven't already been usin...

Google: Small Sites Can Outrank Big Sites

The latest Webmaster Help video from Google takes on a timeless subject: small sites being able to outrank big sites. It happens from time to time, but how can it be done? Do you h...

Are You Buying The Answers Google Is Selling You?

Google is once again displaying some questionable content in its Knowledge Graph-style results, and displaying it as the answer to your question. Have you personally co...

Google Maps Lets You Browse Old Street View Imagery

Google has updated Google Maps to enable users to look at historical imagery using Street View. Users can browse imagery dating bak to 2007. This shows you how:...

Rufous Hummingbird Gets Top Billing In Google’s Earth Day Doodle

Google has an interesting doodle up for Earth Day. It's animated, and it shows several different animals as you click. You can click the search icon to learn more about each one. T...

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