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More cards have come to Google’s predictive search service, Google Now, including information to alert you to your car rentals, concert tickets and a way to set reminders related to TV shows, book releases and more, when you are searching. Car Rentals

Google posted the news to its Android page on Google+, since these are only updates for the Android version of Google Now. Google explained that car rental reservations will now show up, similar to this example: Concert Tickets

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Want a better sign-up form that captures more leads and emails? If so, your in luck!

I’m offering you the opportunity to get your sign-up form optimized free of charge. Keep reading to find out how.

A little background information on sign-up form optimization

If you read ContentVerve.com on a regular basis, you know that I’ve done quite a lot of optimization and testing on various types of sign-up forms.

In many cases, it only takes a few simply tweaks to increase sign-ups...

Typically, SEO concepts are very logical. You want your pages to be easy to read, you want your title tags descriptive (bookmarks, etc)...

A new post from www.davidnaylor.co.uk. BAZINGA!

A couple friends have recently had security scares with their Gmail account where they were worried that their accounts might have been hacked. I was emailing one of them about how to make sure that your account is safe, and I realized it might be handy to post this on my blog as well.

Here’s the email that I just wrote to a friend:

Here’s what I’d do:
- change your password (make sure you’re on google.com when you change your password)
- check for any strange activity. In Gmail, go to...

Trying to get your head around Google authorship? The Google Webmaster Central blog has posted a new FAQ designed to provide some answers. What Qualifies For Authorship?

What pages can have authorship applied to them? Criteria include the page actually being mostly authored by the designated author, that it carries a byline and that it’s a single article, not a compilation page of articles by the author. No Mascots Allowed!

Think it would be funny if the Geico gecko appeared as an...

On Twitter, there are many different “conversations” happening simultaneously. There are also particular moments — TV finales, sporting events, breaking news and more — where many people have all “tuned in” at once. Both types of conversations are opportunities for marketers, when approached the right way.

I’ll be talking more about tapping into these conversations and “now” moments with Richard Alfonsi, Twitter’s vice president of global online sales, during a keynote conversation at our...

Moz published a story yesterday showing a high correlation between Google +1s and Google's search rankings.
Shortly after, Google's head of search spam, Matt Cutts, went over to Hacker News and debunked it. He said, +1s do not have any impact on search rankings at Google.
He wrote:

Ainsley Wagoner shares a story from architecture school in How We Measure Success. She describes a lecture in which their architecture professor first painted a picture of what it’s like to chase the best internships straight out of school, and work oneself to death. And then the professor contrasted that option with this one:

Or you can stop right now and ask yourself what kind of life you want to have. Look around you and figure out where you can make a real impact as designers and...