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Apple is bringing search ads to their App Store. Apple announced it last night saying, "starting this summer, you'll be able to participate in the Search Ads beta and see the ads in action...

Over the weekend my 6-year old daughter was playing with a pretend wand, doing what every 6-year old is supposed to do to her dad: make him do silly things. She would touch me with the wand and go, “Jump like a frog!” or “Walk around in circles!” And of course, I performed these actions in a crowded park without shame or reservations, because these are the things we do for our kids, isn’t it.

I even added a twist to the game. After performing each action (and once her laughter died down)...

Search Engine Land, a site I am proud of, posted a sponsored piece of content named Can moving to a new TLD boost search rankings...

It is that time of the month again for me to post the monthly Google Webmaster report. There was a lot covered but not anything really that major, at least on the algorithmic side...

Type “lying” into Google, and it will suggest “Lying Ted,” the moniker US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump placed on his once-rival Ted Cruz. But type “crooked” into Google, and it doesn’t bring up the “Crooked Hillary” label that Trump has attached to his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. What’s going on?

It’s not because Google has done anything deliberate to favor Clinton, either through automated or manual means, the company told Search Engine Land. It sent this...

After Google going radio silent on the status of Google's Penguin update, as we are waiting on version 4.0 - John Mueller volunteered information on this mornings...

At the Search Marketing Summit in Sydney today, Gary Illyes from Google has been reported as saying that page speed ranking factors for mobile, will be mobile specific, in the upcoming months...

Many people, including myself, are now seeing Google showing image thumbnails in the core web search results for searches on food related items. Google was testing this a few months ago and even before that...