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Google’s year in search 2018: the World Cup, Fortnite GIFs and Bitcoin
Google’s annual Year in Search is more than a digital record of the events, stories and phenomena that captured our attention over 12 months. It’s a reckoning, or computation, on what mattered to society in any given year — and sometimes even signal where it’s headed.
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Google personalizes search results even when you’re logged out, new study finds
A study, albeit from competitor DuckDuckGo, finds that Google search results can vary significantly.
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Unethical growth hacks: A look into the growing Youtube news bot epidemic
Youtube is littered with sketchy mass-produced videos made by automated bots, and Google is doing almost nothing to stop it.
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How to Do the Best Free Keyword Research
My guest author has discovered a secret pipeline to profitable keyword research for free without ever leaving the Google homepage.
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Recently discovered Google easter egg is a browser-based text adventure game
The game can be played entirely in the dev console after searching 'text adventure' on Google, and sees players finding the letters of the company's logo.
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What Do Dolphins Eat? Lessons from How Kids Search - Whiteboard Friday
Kids may search differently than adults, but there are some interesting insights from how they use Google that can help deepen our understanding of searchers in general.
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Google Boots Open Source Anti-Censorship Tool From Chrome Store - TorrentFreak
A browser extension that acted as an anti-censorship tool for 185,000 people has been kicked out of the Chrome store by Google. The open source Ahoy! tool facilitated access to more than 1,700 blocked sites but is now under threat. Despite several requests, Google has provided no reason for its decision.
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Ruin My Search History: Ruin and protect your search history and privacy. Now 2018 updated.
Ruin your Google search history with a single click. Learn everything you need regarding search history and keeping private only.
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'Don't Google Google, Googling Google is wrong', says Google
Chocolate Factory unwraps developer style guide, squibs the thorny ISO date debate
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Where Clickbait, Linkbait, and Viral Content Fit in SEO Campaigns
For your clickbait and viral content efforts to bear fruit, they need to be done the right way and used in the right places. Rand discusses what kind of content investments make sense for this type of strategy and explains why it works in this week's Whiteboard Friday.
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Your Google Rank Doesn’t Matter Anymore
Ranking #1 in Google used to be the ultimate goal, the search landscape is dramatically evolving. How do you win at SEO in 2018?
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Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results to make pics harder to steal
Better for websites and photographers but worse for users
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9 Predictions for SEO in 2018
For the past ten years, Rand has made a set of predictions for SEO in the year ahead, and for all ten years he's been largely correct. Check out what he got right in 2017, and pay close attention to his predictions for 2018 — they're doozies!
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Google Updates Policy on News Pay Walls. ‘First Click Free’ to End.
A new program will allow subscription-based publications to determine how many free articles to give readers who gain access to their sites through search.
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Google's Chrome for Android now asks users to pick their preferred search engine in Russia
Earlier this year, Google lost an antitrust case in Russia over the restrictions it places on Android devices. As part of a settlement with the country’s antimonopoly agency FAS, the US tech giant has made changes to its Chrome app, which now prompts users to select a default search engine when it launches for the first time.
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Google Fined Record $2.7 Billion in E.U. Antitrust Ruling
The search giant must change how it provides some of its services to comply with the competition decision in Europe.
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Google begins removing private medical records from search results
Google has started removing private medical records from its search results, after adjusting its policy regarding personal information. The change was made on Thursday to include the “confidential, personal medical records of private people” in the bracket of information Google may remove unprompted from search results. Other examples of such information include national or government issued identification numbers, bank account numbers, credit card numbers and images of signatures.
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Google launched more than 1,600 new changes in search last year
Google has been busy with 1,653 launches, 9,800 live traffic experiments, 18,015 side-by-side experiments and 130,336 search quality tests.
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Official Google Webspam Report 2016
Search engine (and SEO) blog with tips and announcements to connect your website or app with Google Searchers and Search Console (Webmaster Tools).
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Updates to the Google Safe Browsing’s Site Status Tool
Search engine (and SEO) blog with tips and announcements to connect your website or app with Google Searchers and Search Console (Webmaster Tools).
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