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Mazal Tov - 13 Years Covering The Search Industry
It's like I am celebrating my bar mitzvah again, well, I kind of am because this site is now 13-years old! I personally have been covering the search marketing industry on this site for 13 years now. And I say this every year...
Google Machine Learning Sentence Compression Algorithms Powers Features Snippets
The other day, I covered at Search Engine Land a Wired article named Google's hand-fed AI now gives answers...
Answering Featured Snippets Timely, Using Sentence Compression on News
by Bill Slawski
Nov 30, 2016
Nov 30, 2016
A couple of Augusts ago, I went to a Semantic Business and Technology conference where the head of Yahoo’s Knowledge Graph, Nicolas Torzec, discussed how updates took place to the knowledge graph when some earth-shaking event took place. He told...
Ranking Events in Google Search Results
by Bill Slawski
Nov 28, 2016
Nov 28, 2016
This summer, Google was granted a patent that describes how the search engine might rank events based upon data that might indicate the popularity of those events, without relying on things such as the number of links pointed to pages about those...
Google Tweaking Top Stories Algorithm To Filter Out Fake News?
It looks like Google is or has worked on tweaking the top stories algorithm to filter out fake news sites, or rather, promote higher quality news sites from showing in that box...
Google On The Hunt For Spammy Exact Match Domains (EMDs)
Google's Gary Illyes said this morning that he is "hunting" for spammy EMDs, exact match domains...
Backlinks from Client Sites, Sites You Own, Widgets, & Embedded Content: How to Maximize Benefits & Avoid Problems - Whiteboard Friday
Nov 24, 2016
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Video Transcription
Howdy, Moz fans, and welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. This week, we're going to chat about a question we see a lot here at Moz, around what you should do with websites that you maybe design or build or do work for, your clients' websites if you're an agency or consultant,...
Video Transcription
Howdy, Moz fans, and welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. This week, we're going to chat about a question we see a lot here at Moz, around what you should do with websites that you maybe design or build or do work for, your clients' websites if you're an agency or consultant,...
Google Admits A Bug In Search Hurt Gmail's Competitor ProtonMail?
Many of your probably read the Search Risk - How Google Almost Killed ProtonMail story from a month ago - it has been something I've been tracking since August. In August...
Google News Recommendations and the Google Knowledge Base
by Bill Slawski
Nov 22, 2016
Nov 22, 2016
I’ve seen posts from SEO by the Sea show up in search results with an “In the News” heading above them, even though my site hasn’t officially been accepted in Google News. Some blog posts that have been given that “In the News” treatment have...
Why Google might not be able to stop “fake news”
Last week, Google pledged to fight “fake news” in its search results yet offered up no solutions to the problem. That’s likely because Google has no easy fix.
Google especially came under fire after it listed a site with incorrect “final” US presidential election counts as the top listing for searches such as “final votes” or “final election count.”
Media outlets soon picked up on this. In response, Google said that it would block advertising to sites that mispresent themselves and...
Google especially came under fire after it listed a site with incorrect “final” US presidential election counts as the top listing for searches such as “final votes” or “final election count.”
Media outlets soon picked up on this. In response, Google said that it would block advertising to sites that mispresent themselves and...
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