According to a 2014 study by Google, 74 percent of leisure travelers relied on the internet for travel planning. That same study found that 77 percent of business travelers also started their journey online. Yet in many companies, booking travel still involves emailing or calling an actual travel agent, who then books with the airline or hotel. Read More... →

“Can I get in the building?” It might not be a question you find yourself asking regularly — but for the 3 million+ wheelchair users in the US, it’s a question that has to be considered. And starting now, it’s one that Google Maps is trying to help answer. “Wheelchair accessible entrance” will now be noted in a locations “Amenities”… Read More... →

Big news this week, folks! Unfortunately, it’s bad news. Yahoo recently admitted to being hacked again… in 2013. The hackers took information from one billion accounts, which is staggering. In other news, Google has changed their “In the News” section to a “Top Stories” section to escape accusations of fake news, AMP URLs will be changing soon, and Bill Slawski has a fantastic article about Panda and quality scores that... [Read More...] The post The Latest Yahoo Hack, Google Sandbox, and More: Weekly Forum... →

Big news this week, folks! Unfortunately, it’s bad news. Yahoo recently admitted to being hacked again… in 2013. The hackers took information from one billion accounts, which is staggering. In other news, Google has changed their “In the News” section to a “Top Stories” section to escape accusations of fake news, AMP URLs will be changing soon, and Bill Slawski has a fantastic article about Panda and quality scores that... [Read More...] The post The Latest Yahoo Hack, Google Sandbox, and More: Weekly Forum... →

Google today officially announced that it’s rebranding its Google Keyboard application for Android users to “Gboard,” the name sported by its newer keyboard app that sports a fully integrated Google Search engine, emoji and GIF search, and more. The keyboard’s Android launch had been spotted earlier this week by a number of media sites and blogs, who had… Read More... →

Google is joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation as a Gold member. To be fair, this doesn’t necessarily come as a major surprise, especially given that Google recently hired the foundation’s former CEO Sam Ramji. Other Cloud Foundry Gold-level members include Accenture, Allstate, CenturyLink, Huawai, Phillips and Verizon. It’s worth noting that Google — unlike Cisco,… Read More... →

Amazon infiltrated the home when no one was looking with a smart assistant loaded on some low-price hardware, and now the competition has a whole lot of catching up to do. In this last push ahead of the holidays, Google is certainly making a valiant effort. The company’s Home hub has been available at retail since October, offering the promise of a whole lot of functionality on the way.… Read More... →

Google сообщил, что в Мой бизнес стала доступна статистика по фотографиям. Теперь пользователи сервиса смогут узнать, как часто люди просматривают снимки компании по сравнению с фото похожих фирм. В новом разделе «Фотографии» показано общее количество снимков, связанных с компанией, и указана частота их просмотра. Из графика «Просмотры фотографий» можно узнать, сколько раз пользователи Google посмотрели […]... →

Руководство «беспилотным» бизнесом отдано в руки экс-президента американского подразделения Hyundai... →

This week, besides for me feeling pretty lousy, was busy. We had a potential Google update yesterday. Google pushed AMP results into the image search results. Google...... →

John Mueller of Google said this morning in a hangout on YouTube at the 5:40 mark into the video that moving your header tags, i.e.

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Google My Business is now showing a new metric in the insights section of your Google My Business listings for your photos. Google will show you how many views your photos are getting compared to other businesses like yours...... →

Google's review markup guidelines now prohibit including profanity and/or vulgar language in your reviews...... →

Google announced Promoted Places in Google Maps...... →

Исследование, проведенное командой сервиса Serpstat... →

При нажатии на заголовок которых юзеры попадают на AMP-версию Pinterest... →

Передача дела Google в Суд по интеллектуальным правам – не лучшее решение по мнению Яндекс... →

15 декабря зарубежные вебмастера заметили признаки возможного обновления поискового алгоритма Google. Об этом свидетельствуют их сообщения на форуме WebmasterWorld. Судя по комментариям в блоге Search Engine Roundtable, обновление было крупным. По словам одного из участников обсуждения, дневной трафик его сайта упал на 25%. Показатель начал снижаться в ночь с 14 на 15 декабря. Заметные изменения в […]... →

Англоязычные вебмастера заметили признаки изменений... →

Однако в Google отметили, что это относится преимущественно к большим сайтам... →