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Google’s amazing predictive search tool, Google Now, is finally being made available to people on desktop and laptop computers using the regular release of its Chrome browser. Until now, it had only been available through mobile devices or to those using beta versions of Chrome.

Google shared the news via its Google Chrome account on Twitter today: Rolling out today, @Google Now cards will be available to signed-in Chrome users on desktop or laptop computers: http://t.co/6zBf6ky0je

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Early this morning, after 3am EST, Matt Cutts, Google's head of search spam, seems to have confirmed that Google took action on spam in Greece recently.

Matt responded on Twitter to someone noticing penalties to Greek web sites...

The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread that tracks Google activity has webmasters and SEOs asking if there are algorithmic updates going on, either Panda or Penguin...

Yesterday, Google's Matt Cutts announced they've penalized a large guest blog network but never said which one. The search community believes it is MyBlogGuest...

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Wow. It’s 2014 already. I started practicing SEO consciously 10 years ago. Despite all the nonsense we have been hearing from publicity hungry mainstream media SEO is growing, at least judging from the plethora of in many cases new web based tools that appear on the market.

These modern tools are both easy to use and visually appealing while still very helpful to implement actual website improvements.

I have been approached by numerous tool vendors in recent weeks and months so that...

Google's Matt Cutts announced on Twitter at 2:13am EST that Google has taken action on a "large guest blog network." This time, Matt Cutts did not specifically say which network they targeted.
Matt links to his post on his personal blog named The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO. In January, Matt warned that guest blogging for SEO is dead, which...

Not as cool as Google Glass but much more practical, Google has released their answer for wearables in the form factor of a watch under Android Wear.

Basically, it is Google Now notifications designed for really small screens...

Austin Hill wrote what is so far the best critique I’ve seen of apps like Whisper and Secret. Here’s the general point from his essay On your permanent record:

When a participant in iterative prisoners’ dilemma has no identity or feels free from the responsibility of their actions in social interactions communities quickly degenerate into a race to the bottom. This is when trolls, abusers and the worst part of our humanity starts to become a strategic advantage in seeing your actions get...