Here is a photo from Prabhakar Raghavan, a Senior Vice President at Google responsible for Google Search, Assistant, Geo, Ads, Commerce, and Payments products, wearing the new Google Maps Street View camera backpack. He posted this on Twitter and said “We’re celebrating 15yrs of Street View for Google Maps and it’s just getting better! Check […]
John Mueller posted this photo on Twitter saying he found this Flash dressed crocodile toy by his desk when he was in the office the other day. I am not sure if there is an inside joke here, hence the joke being inside… But is funny either way. This post is part of our daily […]
Google’s John Mueller is able to see and identify content search related spam without even speaking the language. Supposedly this is not a magical power or even that hard to do by someone who was trained to catch spam, but nevertheless, he is able to spot spammy content in languages he does not understand. How […]
Google had a big unconfirmed search ranking algorithm update around Mother’s Day. Also, this week was Google I/O and Google had a ton of announcements specific to search, I take you through many of them. Google’s digital marketing certification coursework had some pretty bad SEO advice around keyword density and word count but it later […]
Companies in general have a huge potential role to play in building a more inclusive society. There are many ways they can start doing it, and one important topic we have seen many companies working on is including language. Recently, Google announced a new “inclusive language” function that is intended to flash a warning if […]
google has published its annual web spam report and in that report, Google has named its machine learning based systems for spam identification with its own name – SpamBrain. SpamBrain is a new name but the technology, the AI, is from 2018, so SpamBrain is technically not new. Here is what SpamBrain looks like: Here […]
False information is not something new to the Internet, and we know that it can be extremely harmful on political and social levels. last week, Google announced that it will be adding a “highly cited content” notice to deliver results performed on Google Search, focused on highlighting the original, most credible sources and avoiding the […]
David Mihm pointed out on Twitter that Google is hosting a partner workshop event named “Drive traffic to your website with SEO.” The interesting bit is that the workshop says it is “hosted by one of Google’s internal SEO experts, this workshop will give you a behind-the-scenes view into how Google approaches SEO for its […]
How’s that for an unpaid endorsement of your SEO product – Google’s John Mueller said he paid for a license to Screaming Frog. He said that Redditwhere someone asked how to convince their boss to apply for that license. If you didn’t know, the Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a website crawler that will help […]
Google’s John Mueller and Martin Splitt had two special guests on their podcast show this week to talk about how Google is tackling inclusive language in search – a topic we’ll briefly cover only covered over here once. The short version of this 30-minute podcast is that Google search automatically processes including language, as it […]