Google has announced the release of new snippets for web pages that comprise lists. These snippet improvements set out to distill information from long lists and show them in bullet-points. The new snippet format alters the previously available meta descriptions.
They were first spotted sometime last week, in the UK where they were primarily seen. However, this announcement from Google confirms that these list snippets are indeed an addition to the search engine results page.
Google has released a video to “give people an even deeper look inside search”. The video sets out to explain the process that goes into making the changes and improvements to the Google search algorithm on almost every day basis.
Most of us who are involved in SEO understand that the Google algorithm constantly keeps changing. Apart from certain ground-breaking changes that are made each year, like this year saw the Panda update, there are also other minor changes that are constantly being made to search.
Google is to shell out one of the largest financial penalties, a colossal $500 million in order to avert Department of Justice's criminal prosecution. Google was alleged to be profiting from advertising Canadian pharmacies illegally selling prescription and non-prescription drugs.
According to reports from AP, Google was aware of these illegal sales to Americans who did not have prescriptions since 2003. The investigation was mainly carried out by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Rhode Island, the Food and Drug Administration.
Google's search quality team are looking to recruit Search Quality Associates for their Dublin, Ireland office.
As a Search Quality Associate, you will basically be responsible for fighting the web spam and your key duties will include:
Facebook has announced that their news feeds will now be grouped on the basis of the topics that are discussed.
Facebook declared these changes on their Facebook account, “We want to show you the most relevant and interesting information, and this test is designed to show you trends among what your friends are saying.” This suggests that, it will work in a very similar way to the grouping that takes place when same link is shared by multiple of your friends.
The Dealmap has announced that it is now acquired by Google. However the terms of this deal are yet to be disclosed by either parties.
For those who are not familiar with The Dealmap services, it is a website that propagates local discounts and deals via mobile, emails and Twitter by showing the deals' location on Google Maps. Up until now, also an added feature of this website was, it allowed businesses and other users to submit deals. However, with the acquisition, these deals are to be now reverted to the Google Offers team for consideration.
Quit using Google Maps to find that perfect hotel for your holiday or business trip. Google has introduced its new experimental search toolbar, Hotel Finder, to help you find your perfect hotel.
The filters available for populating hotels in the area are:
The features that make it easier for you to find that perfect hotel are:
Yesterday, Google released, yet another addition to its web page speed service clan, Page Speed Service. An online line service which will automatically load your web pages faster. The clan till date, sans Page Speed Service, consisted of, Page Speed browser extension, Page Speed Online API and mod_pagespeed, an Apache module.
Using this service is simple, all you have to do is, Sign up and let Google know of your site's DNS entry.
The search engine giant has ventured into a whole new field- Finance. This is Google's way of assisting their clients-through a credit card. Yes, there is a Google Credit Card now. And here is the brief about it:
What is it called- AdWords Business Credit Card
Who can use it- US based advertisers.
What can you get with it- Only one thing- Google AdWords
Google's dropping of one its first services, Google Directory is something that came out of the blue.
Google Directory was the second service rolled out by Google way back in 2000. After over a decade long run of service it provided, it is no longer there!
Log on to the Google Directory's home page and you will read the following:
@pagetraffic
