Свежие новости и отзывы о Google

Google today announced plans to kill off the Chrome app launcher for Windows, Mac, and Linux in July. The tool, which lets users launch apps outside the browser, will continue to live on in Chrome OS. As you might suspect, the Chrome app launcher was originally ported from Chrome OS. Google first experimented with bringing […]... →

Nintendo’s first mobile game is the most downloaded smartphone application for iOS and Android in Japan, but that isn’t exactly bringing in the big bucks. Miitomo is the 176th highest-grossing iPhone application in Japan today, according to intelligence firm Sensor Tower and market-tracking firm App Annie. On Google Play, the Android app market, Miitomo is way […]... →

David Lee, a former Google executive who for several years ran the seed-stage venture fund SV Angel, is back with his own new firm, shows an SEC filing. The outfit is called Refactor Capital and it’s apparently targeting $50 million for its debut fund. Refactor, which was incorporated seven months ago, doesn’t appear to have a site up and running yet. But the SEC filing lists… Read More... →

Today Google finally told the world its real strategy for competing with public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS). Google first launched the Google Compute Engine infrastructure as a service (IaaS) in 2012, but it has always been in the shadows of AWS. Google tried using major price cuts in order to gain ground […]... →

Google rolled out a small but useful update to its Google Photos service today, which will allow the creation of what Google calls “smarter albums.” These are photo albums automatically created on users’ behalf, following an event or a trip, and will include a curated selection of your best shots, along with details like how far you traveled, or location pins to help you… Read More... →

Google is introducing some nifty new smarts to its Photos app today, ones designed to take the pain out of managing the hundreds or thousands of snaps that lie dorment on your device. Kicking off from today on Android, the Web, and iOS, Google Photos will now curate what it deems to be your best […]... →

Google announced this morning that it’s renaming its Chromecast application to “Google Cast,” in an effort to better reflect how the technology works across an array of devices, including not only the Chromecast dongles, but also TVs, displays and speakers. The company says the updated app, available for both iOS and Android, will roll out this week for all users. Chromecast,… Read More... →

Google has announced that it’s changing the name of its Chromecast app to Google Cast on Android and iOS this week. The name-change, while a minor move on the surface, signals a broader shift in the direction Google is taking its Cast technology. With more than 20 million units sold in the two years since […]... →

ANALYSIS: A lot has happened in the ten years since Twitter was founded — Apple’s App Store and Google Play have come to fruition, the app economy is a billion-dollar industry, and mobile phones have become the new computers. This shift in the way people communicate and interact with each other opens many opportunities not only […]... →

Last week, we reported on a Google update that we suspected started a week or so before. There was some chatter in the SEO communities around an update, as well as some of the automated tracking tools noticed some changes - but overall...... →

Google seems to be stepping up showing more and more images in the search results, inline with the snippets. Over the past few weeks...... →

Former Googler, Pierre Far, spotted and posted on Google+ that the Google crawler (GoogleBot) now sends HTTP requests with English setting Accept-Language in the request header.... →

One of the more complicated topics in SEO is internationalization, geo, languages...... →

Истории успехов и поражений... →

Бизнес-интегратор GoTech и «Лаборатория Касперского» создали специальную номинацию Next Generation Security. Об этом Firrma сообщили в GoTech. Принять участие в отборе могут технологические компании и проекты, создающие продукты для защиты от современных или будущих киберугроз по следующим направлениям:  мобильная и облачная безопасность;  новые подходы в информационной безопасности;  адаптивная безопасность;  анализ человеческого и машинного поведения;  физическая безопасность и здоровье близких;  интернет... →

Купив сегодня новенький смартфон на Android, вы увидите, что существенная часть памяти уже чем-то занята и не соответствует заявленным «коробочным» данным... →

Компания считает, что нововведение поможет сделать сервис более удобным для пользователей... →

По данным Moz, Google стал чаще показывать блок «Пользователи также ищут» (People Also Ask) в результатах поиска. В районе 11 марта график Mozcast показал резкий скачок частоты появления этого блока в выдаче. В настоящее время он отображается по 9% запросов, которые отслеживает компания. Напомним, что Google тестировал новый блок «Пользователи также ищут» в апреле 2015 года. Он располагается в верхней части результатов поиска и позволяет выбирать релевантные или альтернативные запросы для уточнения результ... →

В Google Now появилась возможность отключить показ статей и новостей от сайтов, в которых пользователь не заинтересован. Нововведение позволит сделать сервис более персонализированным. Отказаться от показа публикаций из конкретного источника можно, нажав на кнопку в виде трёх точек в правом верхнем углу публикации: Новая возможность также поможет повысить вовлечённость читателей. Напомним, что в ноябре 2015 года в Google Now заметно расширился список с подборкой статей для чтения. Изменился и стиль подачи... →

Posted by Dr-Pete[Estimated read time: 8 minutes] Summary: We analyzed 5 mobile phone buyer searches on Google across 5,000 cities (25,000 total markets) to find the winners and losers in both organic and local pack results. Best Buy dominated organic results and performed well in local searches. Sprint won the local pack results, but disappeared from organic entirely. Carriers Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T all performed well, but none covered more than 30% of local search markets. The wireless industry in t... →