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Here is the monthly Google webmaster report, if you missed last month, you will want to catch up there. In short, this month was more about Penguin 4.0...

As you know, Google finally pushed out Penguin 4.0 in late September and the recoveries and declines were fully rolled out in the first two weeks of October...

The page layout algorithms/penalty that penalizes sites with too many ads distracting users from the main content is supposedly an algorithm that is automated and doesn't need to be manually run.

We discussed the concept of the real time algorithms when Penguin 4.0 launched...

Did Google deliberately try to reduce the rankings of ProtonMail, a tiny rival to Google’s own Gmail service? Almost certainly not. Even Proton doesn’t seem to believe that. But the case highlights how Google’s problems with publisher, business and webmaster communication can hurt it as it faces challenges on antitrust grounds. What happened with Proton

Proton Technologies is a Swiss-based company offering a secure, encrypted email service called ProtonMail. It might be an attractive...

As you know, Google said the mobile index should be out within months. This mobile index will act as Google's primary index, and Google will crawl the web from a desktop view as a secondary to the mobile view.

But Google is still hard at work at it...

Last week, we quoted Google's John Mueller as saying Google doesn't have a website authority score. Well, now, Gary Illyes from Google got into it by saying "we don't really have overall domain authority...

Over the past couple days I've been seeing some signs of a Google update, most from forum and social chatter within the community...

Google's John Mueller said in the webmaster hangout from Friday at the 21:52 mark that Google tends to launch many new changes to the search engine, including algorithm updates and tweaks...

Want to know about California’s Proposition 63, a measure to control gun ammunition sales and large magazines, which is on the state ballot this month? Google has the answer. It’s a “deceptive ballot initiative that will criminalize millions of law-abiding Californians.” So much for balanced search results.

Google presents that answer at the very top of its results, when searching for “Prop 63” or “Proposition 63,” as shown below:

To answer “What’s happening here,” as Medium CEO Ev...