Webmasters and SEOs are back on their work of analyzing how Penguin 2 update, which is now live has impacted their websites.
Google on the other hand is also assessing things on the basis of how the updated has impacted search results, quality of search, and searcher's satisfaction. The search giant is also looking out for more ways to analyze the situation.
Google Penguin 2 is rolled out and within 24 hours, the list of a few websites who have lost badly in the battle to save their rankings is out! The common categories being hit include game sites, porn sites, and some of the big brands like Dish.com, CheapOair, and the Salvation Army.
As the number of photos that you have taken increases, it gets overtly difficult to manage them in the photo library or your new device. Searching for the photographs is equally difficult because what you are looking for is visual.
Here’s a bad news for Google Play developers and merchants who are using Google Checkout as a default payment option and an alternative to PayPal. Google has announced that the service is going away on November 20, 2013.
Although, Google Play developers will be moved to Google Wallet for the payment procedures. Google said that it needs an online payment processing solution for web merchants and has partnered with Freshbooks, Braintree, and Shopify. These are not free services and Google will be offering the services to merchants at discounted migration options.
You will now see bold color visualizations in the Google Trends. The reason being, newly introduced "spirit of the times" Top Charts feature that will display over 40 categories of Top 10 lists of people, places, and things, on the basis of the search interest.
For long, webmasters have been keeping an eye on every activity related to Penguin update. Matt Cutts has finally put an end to all the rumors and assumptions related to the update by officially announcing the roll out of Penguin 2.0 on 22 March, 2013, late afternoon on "This Week in Google".
"It's gonna have a pretty big impact on web spam", is what Matt Cutts said on the show.
The data highlighter rich snippet market tool by Google is now updated with support for six additional data types. The tool was introduced in December 2012 in order to let tech-savvy webmasters markup their event based data. The tool however, worked only with the event data.
The update can be seen in the help page that displayed six new data types along with the events data type. The additions include:
The Google+ mobile website has finally received some enhancements, in terms of looks and functionality.
Google has done some improvements in the Google+ mobile site, which are assumed to be appreciated by users. Let's take a look at the update.
The latest update for Google's new unified messaging platform, Hangouts doesn't support the outbound phone calls functionality.
Nikhyl Singhal, director of real-time communication products for Google said that they are working on adding outbound calls for the Chrome and Web extension. However, Hangouts at present supports incoming calls for users only with Google Voice numbers. For users, who want to make phone calls, can use Google Talk till the time the functionality in Hangouts is available again.
eMarketer has come up with new statistics and predictions for the popular social network Facebook. The social network although has millions of users spread in every part of the world but India, Brazil, Russia, Middle East, and Africa have the highest number of Facebook users. eMarketer has published an estimated usage statistic of Facebook on the basis of region and country, for the coming years.
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