Google has launched Top Charts, allowing users to visualize and share the most-searched people, places, and things in more than 40 categories, all the way back to 2004. Derived from Google’s Knowledge Graph, the data is featured in Google Trends...
Nationally, brands must understand that top search engines have carved out some high profile places to present search results from chosen or affiliated social networks. Activity happening on Facebook, Google+, Twitter and other top social networks...
The Knowledge Graph knows that Santa Cruz is a place, and that this list of places are related to Santa Cruz" "People communicate with each other by conversation, not by typing keywords -- and we've been hard at work to make Google understand and...
I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out some new things and figure out what is the effect on society, what’s the effect on people, without having to deploy it into the normal world.
The screenshots show what appears to be a similar style imagery at the bottom which could easily be changed to local listings instead of the screenshots showing local attractions and places of interest.
It makes sense that check-ins are a factor, since Facebook will want to surface places that are actively seeing people visit the location. Remember, Facebook wants to surface places that have a real following, places that users have voted for, etc.
Google has removed the link to Places search. Image via Understanding Google Maps and the change comes not long after the launch of the new Google Places for Business dashboard. This is an interesting development, considering Google has pledged to...
SAP’s Vice President of Marketing and Content Strategy, Michael Brenner says: “Multi-channel marketing is the 2nd core piece of Content Strategy, which seeks to provide the content our audiences are searching for, in all the places they search.
Google Places For Business Gets Its Own iPhone App For Managing Listings [Update: Google Removed App] – Search Engine LandThe app was accidentally released early, no word on when/if it will actually be available again.
In more places than ever, we've been asked by governments to remove political content that people post on our services. From July to December 2012 Google received 2,285 government requests to remove content from its platforms, an all-time high.
Google Places Search On searches that trigger Google local results, Google will mark links to its reviews as "Google Places Search", and also include the option to search local results on three "other relevant providers" to the right on desktop...
People seek answers, content, and conversation in both search engines and social networks, so marketers need to be in both places where these conversations and searches are occurring. Neither Google nor Facebook are there yet.
On the user side, Facebook is back and forth on Places, check-ins and other location features. They have the opposite problem of Google: Thousands of "feet on the street" reps to get their arms around SMBs; but not always the same product focus or...
You could list all your social profiles, blogs and websites, post photos and videos, map places you've lived for your entire life, provide your address and contact information – all in one spot. Not long after Google+ was launched, I came to the...
The group claimed that Google favors its own apps over others, placing them in prominent places on Android phones and tablets. Google reportedly has reached a deal with European Union (EU) regulators regarding its so-called anticompetitive search...
In order to facilitate story-telling, Tourism Australia allows you to find places in Australia that your friends have visited using the Discover app on Facebook. And Google, which had acquired travel behemoth Frommers in August 2012, has recently...
You have tons of data, but there are some common places that people start to get an idea of how their pages are performing for their visitors. During the Landing Page Optimization session at SES New York 2013, Justin Cutroni (@justincutroni...
Google Places was recently replaced with Google+ Local – a merging of Places and Plus that serves up your Google+ Local listing in Search and Maps results on mobile devices and traditional browsers. Google's previous local algorithm for Places was...
A new Google Places for Business interface rolls out. Improving the look and feel of Google Places for Business – Google and Your Business Blog Google Places for Business gets a new interface with more Google+ integration.
So as Google places more value on link relevancy, so should you. But it's statements like "relevance is the new PR" (emphasis on "new"), aggressive Penguin refreshes and updates, the evolution of SERP behavior, and the devaluation of keyword anchor...
