Google has long tried to make it easier for users to do follow-up searches or search for related content as they browse (examples here and here). Now, Google has updated its iOS app to make suggestions for related content at the bottom of the page. The animation below indicates how it works (I was not able […]
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Google just made it easier for readers to find an e-book at their local library. Per the following tweet from Google, mobile search results for a book now include a “Borrow e-book” option under the “Get Book” section. Calling all U.S. bookworms! Now you can take a look at what e-books are available to borrow
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Described as a “digital safe space for the far right” or the “alt-right’s very own Twitter,” social site Gab.ai is suing Google parent Alphabet for alleged violations of antitrust law. The company filed its suit after its Android app was removed from Google Play. According to the company’s complaint, the Gab app was never allowed on
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Kashin / Shutterstock.com We all know the Google mobile first index is coming soon, probably in the next few months or so. To prepare, it seems like Google is encouraging webmasters to go responsive with their web sites. Google has just published a how-to on moving your m-dot site to responsive. The techniques are pretty
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As more site owners have adopted AMP for speeding up mobile pages, measurement has lagged. That’s quickly changing. A visitor who went to an AMP-enabled page and a non-AMP page of a site was being counted as two separate people in Google Analytics. In May, Google fixed the double-counting issue for visitors to publisher domain
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With a new search app update for iOS, Google has added trending searches and instant answers. (TechCrunch noticed it earlier today.) It replicates a previously introduced Android feature which reportedly resulted in an outcry, causing Google to enable an opt-out. In the “what’s new” discussion in the iOS App Store, Google says: See searches that
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Earlier today, at German consumer electronics and appliances show IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung) in Berlin, Google announced that the Google Assistant will be coming to new smart speakers and home appliances. With the move Google is more aggressively competing with Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana for third party hardware and software integration. The company said that
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Let’s put the mobile configuration debate to bed. For those of you who haven’t been following closely, the industry discussion about mobile design options involves whether it’s better to use responsive web design, adaptive design or separate URLs to achieve better search rankings. Because responsive web design is Google’s stated preference, many SEOs assume that it
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Bad landing pages, especially on mobile devices, can kill conversions. There are high bounce rates if users can’t find desired information or the user-experience is too cumbersome or slow. To help advertisers improve mobile performance Google announced a new “Landing pages” tool at Google Marketing Next earlier this year. It’s designed to help marketers assess
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Google announced they have added video previews to the video carousel that shows up in the search results. Currently, this only occurs when you are using the Google app for Android or using Chrome on Android. When you toggle through the videos in the carousel, it will show you a six-second preview of the video.
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