Australian appeals court rules Google did not defame man
A Melbourne appeals court said Google is not responsible for defamation of a man based on the images shown in the search results.
Barry Schwartz a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.
SearchCap: Google offensive, local SEO & small business
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google studying ways to deal with offensive search suggestions & resultsDec 16, 2016 by Danny Sullivan Facing criticism over “fake news,” inappropriate search suggestions and more, the search company is looking […]
SearchCap: Google review guidelines, photo insights & PPC campaigns
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google reviews schema guidelines to prohibit vulgar or profane languageDec 16, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Make sure your reviews don’t contain profane or vulgar language. If they do, Google can remove […]
Google reviews schema guidelines to prohibit vulgar or profane language
Make sure your reviews don't contain profane or vulgar language. If they do, Google can remove your review rich snippets.
Google My Business adds new photos insights
Compare how many views your Google Maps photos get versus how many your competitors get in Google My Business insights.
Search in Pics: Bing holiday sweater, Google igloo & maypole dancers
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. Bing sweater and scarf for holidays: Source: Twitter Google igloo: Source: Instagram Waymo, new name for […]
SearchCap: AMP images, Google Maps promoted places & machine learning
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: AMP results now showing in Google Image SearchDec 15, 2016 by Barry Schwartz AMP is now showing up in the mobile Google Image search results. Retailers testing Google Maps mobile Promoted […]
AMP results now showing in Google Image Search
AMP is now showing up in the mobile Google Image search results.
SearchCap: Google top searches, Cortana with Harman Kardon & image product schema
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Move over, Amazon Echo & Google Home: Here comes Microsoft CortanaDec 13, 2016 by Danny Sullivan Cortana will be baked into a new smart speaker from Harman Kardon to be released […]
Google now showing product schema rich snippets in image search results
Google Image Search now supports product schema markup in the mobile image search results.
SearchCap: Google AMP, Bing top searches & ranking factors
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Searchmetrics Google ranking factors study says content gaining while links losing in importanceDec 13, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Google search ranking factors study is now out, it measured the top 20 […]
Searchmetrics Google ranking factors study says content gaining while links losing in importance
Google search ranking factors study is now out, it measured the top 20 search results for 10,000 keywords on Google.com.
SearchCap: Google Search Console update, Bing Ads bot & Google Home
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Search Console expands reports for property setsDec 12, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Google’s property set feature in the Google Search Console just got way more useful. Bing Ads is building […]
Google Search Console expands reports for property sets
Google's property set feature in the Google Search Console just got way more useful.
SearchCap: Santa tracker, Yahoo Answers app & digital assistants
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Yahoo introduces ‘Answers Now’ app but will users respond?Dec 9, 2016 by Greg Sterling The company hopes to address historical quality problems with a matching algorithm. Three steps to customer experience […]
Search in Pics: Google sandbox, indoor rowboat & umbrellas
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 YouTube sandbox: Source: Instagram Google notepad and brownie: Source: Instagram Google rowboat with ducks inside: […]
SearchCap: Google local tweets, AdWords audience targets & SEO strategies
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Tweet Google an emoji & it will reply with local search resultsDec 7, 2016 by Amy Gesenhues Tweet an emoji to @Google and you’ll get an immediate reply that includes a […]
SearchCap: New Google design, Yahoo in review & top stories
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google replaces “in the news” box with “top stories” on desktopDec 7, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Google has replaced the “in the news” title with “top stories” on desktop to bring […]
Google replaces ‘In the News’ box with ‘Top Stories’ on desktop
Google has replaced the "In the news" title with "Top stories" on desktop to bring it more in line with the mobile version of the search results.
Google begins rolling out a new desktop search user interface
Check out the new desktop search interface rolling out to a Google near you.
SearchCap: Google app update, Bing & Google Ad Editor & holiday decorations
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google confirms testing movie and TV show ratings with like and dislike buttonsDec 6, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Google is now asking searchers to rate movies and TV shows. Google confirmed […]
Google confirms testing movie and TV show ratings with like and dislike buttons
Google is now asking searchers to rate movies and TV shows. Google confirmed this is a live experiment but would not add anything additional.
SearchCap: Microsoft HomeHub, Google extremism & Black Friday ads
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Top 10 local search insights of 2016Dec 5, 2016 by Wesley Young Columnist Wesley Young of the Local Search Association looks back at 2016 to find the top 10 insights that […]
SearchCap: Google Santa Tracker, duplicate content & Bing Ads
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Canonical chaos: doubling down on duplicate contentDec 2, 2016 by Marcus Miller Duplicate content issues? Problems with your canonical tags? Columnist Marcus Miller explains why these issues occur and how to […]
Search in Pics: Google swing set, bike trailer & goggles
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 indoor swing set: Source: Instagram Google Kosher Certification: Source: Twitter Google bike trailer: Source: Instagram […]
SearchCap: Google AdWords customer match, responsive ads & Apple indoor maps
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: New features may be coming to AdWords Responsive AdsDec 1, 2016 by Ginny Marvin Some accounts are now requiring a square image. Google makes it easier to add & remove emails […]
SearchCap: Google drops feature phones, Sitemap file size increases & videos in panels
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: How Google is tackling fake news, and why it should not do it aloneNov 30, 2016 by Ian Bowden What can Google do to combat fake news? Columnist Ian Bowden illustrates […]
Google drops their feature phone crawler & error report in Search Console
Google has officially dropped full support for feature-phone web sites.
Google & Bing increase the file size limit of Sitemaps files
While the 50,000 URL limit has not changed, your Sitemaps file size can now be up to 50MB.
Google knowledge panel now showing videos from the web carousel
Videos are now showing up below the Google knowledge panel for some queries, including local panels and other knowledge panels.
Google’s machine learning now writes featured snippets descriptions
Google recently launched sentence-compression algorithms to help surface the best answers for your questions from publisher content across the web.
Google drops the Content Keywords feature from Google Search Console
It is official. After hinting at removing the Google content keywords report from Google Search Console, Google did it.
Google My Business tests a messaging feature to chat with your customers
New pilot feature in Google My Business lets you do live chat with your customers directly from the Google search results.
Search in Pics: Google black friday cake, leather luggage tag & cupcakes
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 Black Friday cake: Source: Instagram Google leather luggage tag: Source: Instagram Google’s writing on the […]
SearchCap: Bing black friday deals, robots & ad customizers
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Fun with robots.txtNov 23, 2016 by Patrick Stox Columnist Patrick Stox provides some dos and don’ts for creating your robots.txt file — along with examples of companies who have gotten creative […]
SearchCap: Google rich cards, AdWords store visits & fake news
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Why Google might not be able to stop “fake news”Nov 22, 2016 by Danny Sullivan Google says it wants to prevent fake news from spreading, but the search giant has serious […]
Google Rich Cards expand to local restaurants and online courses
Google updated their structured data documents to support new rich cards and their suggestions around AMP HTML.
SearchCap: Google Home Services ads mobile, live popular times in Maps & SEO KPIs
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Maps adds a live view for popular times at venuesNov 21, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Google Maps makes the popular times feature work in the now, with a real-time view. […]
Google Maps adds a live view for popular times at venues
Google Maps makes the popular times feature work in the now, with a real-time view.
SearchCap: AdWords price and promotion extensions & a Google Doodle
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: New take on Showcase Shopping ads? Categories of used items showing for retailer outlet queriesNov 18, 2016 by Ginny Marvin Similar to the Showcase ad format introduced this summer, the ads […]