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Google, Apple and Microsoft all have agents that want to be your personal assistant. But how well Google Now, Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana can predict your needs depends on how much you want to share, how wedded to particular platforms you want to be and, in some cases, how much you actively want to help make those predictions happen. Going Under-The-Hood

Ferreting out how these agents work is a challenge. The companies all have pages that describe Google Now, Apple Siri and...

Google published a blog post this morning named Repeated violations of Webmaster Guidelines explaining that if you have repeated violations of Google's Webmaster Guidelines and those violations lead to numerous manual actions...

Duane Forrester from Bing announced they are shutting down the Link Explorer tool that they launched in June 2012.

Link Explorer is a Bing powered competitive link analysis tool that won over the SEO community...

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.