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When Google introduced us to the knowledge graph, it also introduced us to pictures and the possibility of other kinds of rich content (video, audio, etc.) in those knowledge panels, and pictorial lists displayed in carousels at the top of pages in...

Onur Ã-zcan informed me on Twitter that Google has supposedly slapped several large Turkish news sites for content spam and keyword stuffing on their sites...

This is officially part of the story I’m telling in a presentation I prepared for SMX East, in a couple of weeks in New York. The name of the session I’m in is “Hummingbird and the Entity Revolution,” which reminds me of a Prince song from the...

I’m going to have to turn up the sound on my TV, and decide carefully what to watch, and test this. It would be very interesting if it works. Is Google clued in to what you are watching on TV? If so, is that through a set top box, or an internet...

Gianluca Fiorelli asked on Twitter why does Google sometimes show the source of their answers in the knowledge graph or quick answers and then sometimes does not...

I recently found a patent with two Google search engineers, Joshua Ain and Justin Boyan, listed as two of the three inventors. Last summer, at Google I/O in San Francisco, they joined together to talk about some tools that can more easily help...

A couple of months ago I got an email from the wonderful people at A List Apart, asking if I’d be interested in starting a regular column on ALA. I believe my response was something to the effect of “1,000 times yes!!” How could it not be? I’ve been reading ALA for such a long time, and I really enjoyed the one time we’d worked together before, on an article called Usable yet Useless: Why Every Business Needs Product Discovery.

In an effort to figure out where to take the column, my editor...

Google's John Mueller in a video hangout this morning on Google+ announced that the 3rd version of Penguin will launch "in the reasonable future" and he expects it will happen within the 2014 year.

The question was raised by @edwardjohnnash...

Today I’m speaking at Unbounce.com’s very first Call-to-Action Conference in Vancouver. The funny thing is that exactly two years ago in September 2012, I wrote my first guest post for Unbounce’s blog. So I thought it would be fitting to do a compilation of all the guest posts I’ve written for them.

So here you go – 17 articles I’ve had the pleasure writing for Unbounce.com’s amazing blog: The Secret to A/B Testing is Sharpening Your Ax, Not Chopping Down the Tree

How to Find the...