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In the new Google Places Dashboard, businesses can now delete listings. The dashboard was first announced back in early April. Since then, it has been updated a number of times...

Google Launches Car Insurance Comparison Tool In France

Google has expanded its car insurance rate comparison tool in France at its Google.fr domain. The feature was...

Cutts Talks Web Spam Fighting In International Markets

In today's Webmaster Help video from Google, Matt Cutts discusses the search giant's efforts in web spam fighting around the world. Many of us are very used to hearing about the ef...

Twitter Announces Update To Search On Desktop

Twitter announced via a brief tweet this afternoon that it has launched an update to Twitter search. The update involves photos and accounts in search results and added context...

Backpacks And Pressure Cookers: Google Search Gets Family In Trouble

When two members of the same family needed information on two seemingly harmless, unrelated things--backpacks and pressure cookers--they both turned to Google, just like the majori...

Google Tests Design Change To Sitelinks In Search Results

Google appears to be testing a design change to its sitelinks feature on search results pages, which makes the experience a bit more interactive for users, and lets sites offer dee...

DuckDuckGo Had Over 100 Million Searches In July

As terms like "NSA" and "PRISM" start to embody the modern-day bogey man for many who take ideas like privacy seriously, a small, but increasing amount of web users alter their beh...

Maria Mitchell Google Doodle Honors First Female Professional Astronomer

Today, Google is honoring Maria Mitchell with a really cool Doodle that shows the first American professional female astronomer using a telescope to look to the sky - presumably in...

Cutts: We Will Give More Info In Link Messages Over Time

Google's Matt Cutts says webmasters can expect Google to expand the amount of info Google provides in Webmaster Tools messages related to manual web spam actions. Cutts put out a n...

Google’s Street View Loses The Side Of A Building

We've seen plenty of strange things within Google's Street View photography, but this is a new one, at least to me. Have you ever seen Google display a building, reducing it to two...

Google Stops Labeling Personalized Search Results

It appears that at some point, Google stopped labeling personalized search results based on its "Search Plus Your World" feature. Are you still seeing personal results...

New Google Flight Search Features Aim To Help You Save Time And Money

Google announced a pair of new features for Flight Search today called "Tips" and "Best Flights," aimed at helping users save money and time, respectively. Here's what the Tips...

Google Discusses Its New Official Link Rules

Google has some new rules for the kinds of links it allows (or doesn't allow, rather). The concepts are actually not exactly new, but Google has updated its official documentation...

Google Launches ‘Views’ Site To Get Users’ Photo Spheres On Google Maps

Google announced the launch of a new site called Views to showcase users' photo spheres that are shared to Google Maps. U...