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Google announced yesterday that they are sick and tired of hearing complaints from their users that SEO companies are presenting to represent Google and help them claim their business on Google My Business (Google Maps)...

If you invest in growth before you have retention, you’re renting users, not acquiring them.

— Gillian Morris in a great post about what users say vs. what they do.

The latest version of Apple’s iOS operating system is out today, iOS 9. It brings with it improvements to both Apple’s Siri personal assistant and its Spotlight search engine. Here’s a rundown of what’s new. Spotlight: Apple’s Stealth Search Engine

Last year, Spotlight was improved to seek more than information just on your phone. That included gaining the name “Spotlight Search” when you pull down to conduct a search.

Earlier this year, Jason Calacanis wrote a nice piece about how...

Last year I wrote a post titled Google on Finding Entities: A Tale of Two Michael Jacksons. The post was about a Google patent that described how Google might tell different entities apart that shared the same name. The patent in it was filed in...

Zineb Ait Bahajji from Google announced on Google+ that the legacy Google Search Queries report within the Google Search Console is no longer going to work after today...

The concern over linking has not died down at all in recent months. A recent question submitted to Google's John Mueller over a Google+ Hangout asked about linking...

I was shocked a bit to hear this, since Google has said time and time again that rich snippets and structured markup doesn't help your site rank higher in Google. But that might change in the future.

I really love the product strategy direction Marty Cagan proposes in The Alternative to Roadmaps:

Ensure your product organization has a compelling product vision.  Ensure that each product team has a clearly defined, prioritized set of business objectives.  Make sure any commitments that must be made are high-integrity commitments.

This means that instead of prioritizing features (and the timing of those features), the leadership team prioritizes business objectives and problems...

The Web is filled with factual information, and Search on the web has been going through changes to try to take advantage of all of the data found there. Mainstream search engines, such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo, traditionally haven’t given us...

Google Panda 4.2 was released in mid/late July 2015 and Google promised us it would roll out over "several months." So 4.2 started around July 18th, which was less than two months ago...