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Google Maps for iPhone has been updated with new local search icons to help you more quickly find restaurants, coffee shops, bars, gas stations, and other places. Tap the search box, then tap an icon, and you’ll get a list of local businesses.
Forbes has released its annual list of the world’s billionaires. While most of the richest people in the world remain the same, one noteworthy change is that Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are no longer tied for net worth.
Scroogled, the attack ad campaign Microsoft launched to initially attack Google for switching its shopping results to a paid model and grew to include critiques about Google “reading” the emails of its users to serve ads, is on its last legs.
UK flower delivery site Interflora, banished from Google’s UK searches after it placed about 150 advertorials on regional news sites, is out of the penalty box after only 11 days – a timely return to the search results ahead of Mothering Sunday.
Google has launched a new website called How Search Works. One feature SEOs may want to check out is the Fighting Spam section, which shares a stream of real examples of “pure spam” pages that Google has identified and removed from search results.
By this point, pretty much everyone has done The Harlem Shake or been subjected to a rendition. Now YouTube, the site responsible for hosting the videos of the viral dance clips, does the Harlem Shake. No, not the employees, the website itself.
A Google Doodle today celebrates Nicolaus Copernicus, the Renaissance astronomer who pushed forward the (at the time) radical idea that Earth wasn't the center of the universe. Instead, he theorized Earth and other planets revolve around the sun.
It’s hardly headline news that Google is by far the most popular search engine for users in the U.S. and most of the world. But what is headline worthy: for two of the past three months, Google has owned 67 percent of the U.S. search market.
You won’t be seeing an animated Google Doodle today on Google's home page. Meant to coincide with the passing of Asteroid 2012 DA14, the Doodle was pulled from Google’s home page after a meteor blast caused hundreds of injuries in Russia.
Why so blue, Yahoo? It seems Yahoo isn’t feeling the love this Valentine’s Day, though the other search engines – including Bing, DuckDuckGo, Dogpile, and Sogou – are celebrating the holiday with special logos or pictures on their home pages.
For the eighth year in a row, Google has made into the top five of an annual survey of the U.S. general public on corporate reputation. Google was fourth in the 2013 Harris Poll Reputation Quotient report, with a score of 81.3 percent.
Twitter is rolling out an update that will help users find older tweets in search results, rather than only tweets from the past week. Only a "small percentage" of these older tweets will appear at first, but this percentage will increase over time.
Google has been cleared of charges that it failed to adequately distinguish paid search ads from organic search results. Australia’s High Court ruled that Google didn’t engage in misleading or deceptive conduct because Google didn’t create the ads.
We're glad to officially welcome Lisa Barone to our team of expert contributors. Barone, VP of Strategy at Overit, is one of the most well-known and respected writers and a top marketing thought leader. What can SEW readers expect from "The Lisa"?
M&M’s licked the competition when it came to searches during Super Bowl 47, according to Google. Searchers were also went crazy for Beyonce – oh yeah, and those two teams who were playing between all the ads and the halftime show.
An update to Google’s spam detection algorithms will grow the number of reviews appearing on some Google+ Local pages. And Google has shared some advice with reviewers, business owners, and SEO professional on how to keep reviews from being deleted.
With Google’s transition to a paid shopping model, advertisers responded in Q4 by ramping up their budgets for product listing ads. A Marin Software report says the move paid off – as PLAs surpassed click-through rates of standard text ads.
With the assistance of locals, Google has updated its Maps to fill in many of the blanks of North Korea's most remote locations, providing a more detailed picture of the country. But North Korea won't be happy about Google's labeling of "gulags."
With 55 sessions on topics covering everything SEO, PPC, social, analytics, local, mobile, video, and much more, SES New York 2013 will once again be a must-attend event for marketers, advertisers, agencies, and business owners of all skill levels.
Google blocked access to some popular websites yesterday after falsely detecting malware in ads from the isocket ad network, angering its founder and CEO. All issues appear to have been resolved, and it seems it was all a false alarm.
