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I’ve been spending way more time with Google’s Material Design guidelines than I ever thought I would, but such is life.

Anyway, as I was going through it, and started to think about the Android side of an app I’m working on, I tweeted this:

Concerned about Material Design's reliance on label-less icons. Pretty sure most users don't know what these mean. pic.twitter.com/aH1IZvAyG6— Rian van der Merwe (@RianVDM) March 11, 2015

That screenshot is from the section on Icons in the...

Last time there was a big Penguin update by Google, i.e. Penguin 3.0, Google did not announce that it happened but they confirmed it after we asked about it.
Google's John Mueller implied they would do the same thing next time a Penguin algorithm is updated or refreshed.

My day didn’t start great. The first thing I read was Michael Dubakov’s statement about enterprise software people (i.e., people like me) in Enterprise software vendors have no taste:

My current theory is that enterprise software vendors have no taste. CEO, VP of development, Product managers that focus on enterprise market — all of them have no fucking taste. There is no taste in companies [sic] DNA, nobody cares about design and aesthetic. Profits, revenue, sales and new...

When Google released the well overdue Penguin 3.0 back in October of last year, we thought that would bring a faster running and more regularly and frequently updated refreshes to the algorithm...

I’ve been thinking about product feedback. We do alot of it at Jive, since most of our work happens in the open. It’s one of my favorite things about Jive and I wouldn’t change it for the world. We all want to make the best product possible, and you can only get that if you put everyone’s heads together.

So I’ve been thinking about how we can make sure we give each other good feedback. I went back and reviewed some of the things I’ve learned over the years about what makes product...

Yesterday in a Google hangout on Google+ with Google's John Mueller I had to ask John about the whole real-time/instant Panda thing Gary Illyes may or may not have said at SMX West...

Google announced on the webmaster blog they made two updates this morning to Google Webmaster Tools.

Both are fairly obvious changes around notifying webmasters about blocked resources preventing Google from properly crawling your web site in full...

Gary Illyes, the man to blame at Google for the HTTPS algorithm, shared a "small" analysis Google ran on HTTPS URLs...