Свежие новости и отзывы о Google

Google убрал из документации по расширенным сниппетам информацию по новому типу микроразметки Place Actions. Ссылка на этот подраздел осталась, однако при переходе по ней страница отдаёт ошибку 404. Ссылки на новые подразделы Overview и Place Actions в разделе Describe Your Local Business справочной документации по расширенным сниппетам специалисты отрасли заметили около двух недель назад. Однако при переходе по ним обе страницы отдавали ошибку 404.  На днях стало известно, что Google запускает новый тип ... →

Пользователи заметили, что Google тестирует четыре объявления AdWords, расположенных над органическими результатами поиска. Аналогичный тест компания проводила несколько раз. Последний из них датирован 2006 годом. Экспериментальный интерфейс выглядит так: Десктопная версия: Мобильная версия: Специалисты отрасли недовольны текущим экспериментом, поскольку в этом случае органические результаты поиска сдвигаются ещё ниже. В некоторых случаях, пользователи их вообще не видят: По мнению вебмастеров, для мобил... →

Apple Maps is now used “three times as often” as Google Maps on iPhones and iPads, according to a report on Monday by the Associated Press (via The Boston Globe). In total, the mapping service is seeing “more than five billion map-related requests each week,” it said. Apple has been steadily improving its maps experience since […]... →

Posted by John-HenryDigital marketing is a pretty introverted industry. This tends to make us a bit hesitant to embrace sales and outbound selling. There’s no beating around the bush: Sales can be difficult, scary, uncomfortable, and awkward — but if you want to grow your client base, it may require getting out of your comfort zone. Image via Quinn Dombrowski Sales has a bad rap, especially with digital marketers. Even Moz’s founder frequently expresses how much he dislikes outbound. Let’s make one thing cl... →

As Alphabet continues to rejigger their company structure, one of the teams left under the Alphabet umbrella has gotten itself a new moniker, according to Stat News. According to the Dictionary, Verily means “in truth; really; indeed.” In an intro video, the team discusses what it’s working on: More to come. Read More... →

Google Life Sciences, a company under the Alphabet umbrella right alongside the “classic” Google, is getting a new name: Verily. Andy Conrad, the head of Google Life Sciences — which spun out of the Google X lab earlier this year — briefed Boston Globe Media’s website Stat on the name change. You can find the […]... →

Gmail has had a “to-do” feature for the longest time but it was pretty useless, as it was a simple stand-alone one-off feature that probably graduated from Labs at one point. It was never integrated and luckily the team is fixing that today. Google is rolling out the ability to add reminders in Google Calendar for iOS and Android (web soon). Why this took so long is a pretty… Read More... →

Google today announced that it has brought the Safe Browsing web security feature of Chrome to Android. The feature is turned on by default for Android devices running Play Services version 8.1 and version 46 of Chrome or later. This might sound trivial, but Safe Browsing needs to stay comprehensive and up to date in […]... →

Google’s Safe Browsing technology is now enabled by default on Android to protect mobile Chrome users from accessing phishing sites and web pages that harbor malware. Until now, Safe Browsing was only available to desktop users, as well as for Chrome users on Android who turned on Google’s optional data compression service. Indeed, for those mobile users, Safe Browsing has already… Read More... →

Google today updated its Google Calendar apps on Android and iOS with a new type of functionality: Reminders. As its name implies, the feature helps you add and keep track of important things you want to remember. You can download the latest version now from Google Play and Apple’s App Store. Reminders, which are rolling […]... →

A major factor that deters girls from pursuing computer science is the perception that coders are mostly white and male, according to a recent Google-commissioned Gallup survey. That’s why non-profit organization Girls Who Code has partnered with mobile game-maker Pixelberry Studios to tell the story of a young girl coder in its flagship game, “High School Story.” The… Read More... →

Vevo, the world’s largest music video platform, has today announced its first acquisition: Showyou, a subscription-based video streaming platform that helps users find video content that might appeal to them. Vevo is a joint venture of Universal Music Group, Google, Sony Music Entertainment and Abu Dhabi Media, and offers music videos from major record labels, which are then… Read More... →

Every year for a long long time, when you searched for the holidays, be it [hanukkah], [kwanzaa], [christmas] and related queries...... →

Google Ventures is ditching its Europe-focused arm and is rebranding as “GV” this week, as Alphabet Inc.’s venture capital (VC) subsidiary moves to distance itself from Google, according to a report in the Financial Times. First launched in 2009, Google Ventures is distinct from Google Capital in that the former focuses more on earlier-stage companies. […]... →

The whole SEM community is up in arms about Google testing four ads, AdWords ads, in the Google search results page. This is something Google has tested on and off for years and years...... →

Friday we reported that Google now is showing the Google Place Action rich snippet documentation to all. But some time between when I wrote about it and now, Google has removed the documentation from the web site...... →

There is a WebmasterWorld thread which has an SEO who accidentally removed all the links from their disavow file and a week later, his traffic to his web site "soared" he said. Here is his timeline: 22nd Nov - Disavow file overwritten by mistake...... →

Google in August came out with a structured snippet extension that lets advertisers show additional structured information that show with your text ads. Now, Google is allowing advertisers add two lines of that information...... →

Late Friday, Google announced they've expanded their answers and knowledge graph information around musicians, actors...... →

... →