Fifteen years on—and we’re just getting started. Google Search is turning 15. Remember what it was like to search in 1998? You’d sit down and boot up your bulky computer, dial up on your squawky modem, type in some keywords, and get 10 blue links to websites that had those words. It seemed like magic (and it was way way faster than card catalogs and microfiche!). The world has changed so much since then: billions of people have come online, the web has grown exponentially, and now you can ask any question on the powerful little device in your pocket. You can explore the world with the Knowledge Graph, ask questions aloud with voice search, and get info before you even need to ask with Google Now. But 15 years on, we’re just getting started.
We want to help you make more of each day. Comparisons and filters in the Knowledge Graph We keep expanding features of the Knowledge Graph so it can answer more questions—even those that don’t have a simple answer. Get things done with Google across your devices. Predictions: What Business Owners Should Expect From Google and SEO in 2013. Mark Your Calendars For These Upcoming Analytics Events. Next week Google Analytics team members will be presenting on several key areas of measurement, both online and in-person.
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Date: Tuesday, August 14 from 9:00-10:00am PST Understanding the Mobile Customer Journey Moderators: Jason Wells, CEO, ContactPoint Adam Singer, Product Marketing Manager, Google Analytics. Google's Next Penguin Update Will Be "Jarring & Julting" Yesterday, At SES San Francisco during the Matt Cutts keynote, Matt answered some questions about the Penguin update that has many SEOs and webmaster shaking in their boots. Update from Matt Cutts: Matt clarified and gave a lot of context to what he said at SES SF. Here is his comment: Hey Barry, I wasn't saying that people needed to overly stress out about the next Penguin update, but I'm happy to give more details. I was giving context on the fact that lots of people were asking me when the next Penguin update would happen, as if they expected Penguin updates to happen on a monthly basis and as if Penguin would only involve data refreshes.If you remember, in the early days of Panda, it took several months for us to iterate on the algorithm, and the Panda impact tended to be somewhat larger (e.g. the April 2011 update incorporated new signals like sites that users block).
He even added the next few updates will be "jarring and jolting" for webmasters and SEOs. Google I’m Feeling Lucky Button Adds 8 New Options. Not feeling lucky? Maybe you’re feeling stellar? Maybe hungry or perhaps puzzled? Google has added a few new options to its I’m Feeling Lucky button. Simply hover over the button and Google will send you to one of Google’s various other properties such as Hot Searches or Google Earth. Here are the new options: I’m Feeling Artistic: Takes you to a random Google Art Project.I’m Feeling Doodly: Takes you to a random Google Doodle.I’m Feeling Hungry: Takes you to a search for restaurants.I’m Feeling Playful: Takes you to a random interactive Google Doodle.I’m Feeling Puzzled: Takes you to a Google-a-Day site.I’m Feeling Stellar: Takes you to Google Earth.I’m Feeling Trendy: Takes you to Google Hot Searches.I’m Feeling Wonderful: Takes you to a random World Wonders project.
The I’m Feeling Lucky has been pretty much irrelevant for many users since the introduction of Google Instant (though only roughly 1 percent of Google users actually used the button, according to Google). Related reading. Make your mark on Google with Handwrite for Mobile and Tablet Search. Unlike searching on a desktop or laptop computer, when you're searching on a touch-screen mobile device it’s often inconvenient to type. So we strive to give you a variety of ways to interact with Google, be it by speaking your queries, getting results before you finish typing, or searching by image. Now there’s a new way for you to interact with Google: Handwrite for web search on mobile phones and tablets. Say you’re standing on a busy street corner, in a bumpy taxi ride, talking with a friend, or sitting on the couch with your tablet.
Handwrite enables you to search by just writing letters with your finger most anywhere on your device’s screen—there’s no keyboard that covers half of the screen and no need for hunt-and-peck typing. Getting started is easy: go to Google.com in your mobile browser, tap on “Settings” at the bottom of the screen and enable “Handwrite.” On tablets, the Search settings are available as an option behind the gear icon.
Have fun with this new way of searching! "Actively Discussed On Google+" Now Showing In Google Search Results. Google’s results are getting even more deeply intertwined with Google+. New links are now showing under results that show “Actively Discussed On Google+.” The link is expandable and brings in Google+ comments or posts when clicked. The “Actively Discussed on Google+” displays much like a sitelink with a blue “Show” button that will expand the discussion without taking users off the results page: When the show button is clicked we’ve spotted either comments or posts from Google+ displaying.
Comments look quite similar to the Google+ execution and are nested as responses. To no-one’s suprise, a link at the bottom of the expanded unit allows users to go directly to Google+: A few implementations spotted weren’t actual discussions, rather just Google+ posts. This implementation furthers the Google+ification of Google search, many times pushing Google+ over relevancy. Related Topics: Channel: Social | Google | Google: Google+ Google's Expandable Knowledge Graph Test. Alex Chitu reports Google is testing a new feature for the Google Knowledge Graph. The new feature is a way to show an expanded version of the knowledge graph in the top of the search results. Currently, when you search in Google and the knowledge graph comes up, it shows you up to five related people, books, albums, movies and so on.
If you want more, you are out of luck. But with this test, Google is adding an “explore more” more link that gives you a lot more related topics to scroll through right at the top of the page. Here is a picture: As you can see, you can use the arrows on each side to scroll through more related people or topics. I personally do not see this feature being tested and I’ve asked Google for a comment on this test. Postscript: A Google spokesperson confirmed this as a test telling us “Google is always experimenting with new features to improve the search experience.” Related Topics: Channel: SEO | Google: Knowledge Graph | Google: User Interface | Google: Web Search. Behold Google index secrets, revealed! Webmaster level: AllSince Googlebot was born, webmasters around the world have been asking one question: Google, oh, Google, are my pages in the index? Now is the time to answer that question using the new Index Status feature in Webmaster Tools. Whether one or one million, Index Status will show you how many pages from your site have been included in Google’s index.Index Status is under the Health menu.
After clicking on it you’ll see a graph like the following: It shows how many pages are currently indexed. The legend shows the latest count and the graph shows up to one year of data.If you see a steadily increasing number of indexed pages, congratulations! Google Launches 'Search As You Type' Pilot Program for Merchants. Google has rolled out a pilot program in which advertisers can display relevant search items before a consumer has finished typing a query.
Called "Search as You Type," the initiative is aimed at AdWords advertisers. Google has so far partnered with two brands — Hasbro and Lowe's — for the program. In the example below, someone starting to search "transformers" on Hasbro's site will see various Transformer products. Google is providing Search As You Type for free for the first 25 million searches annually.
Image via iStock, Hillary Fox. Google Sitelinks With Tab Based Categories. Google is testing a new format for Sitelinks. We received official confirmation from Google on this test at Search Engine Land. The new sitelinks format gives you several categories of Sitelinks in a tabbed format. Many are calling this Tab Sitelinks. Here is a picture from the Warrior Forum: I personally cannot replicate it but I wonder if this clutters the interface more than it is useful?
Shouldn't Google be able to figure out which types of Sitelinks the searcher wants and just show it to them as opposed to giving the user so many options? For more on Google Sitelinks, see our Sitelinks category. Forum discussion at Warrior Forum. Google Accounts. Bing Webmaster Tools Lets You Disavow Backlinks. Bing has announced a new configuration area in Bing Webmaster Tools called "Disavow Links. " The tool is for submitting URLs of spammy or low-quality sites that link to you or links to your site that seem "unnatural. " The new tool can be found under the Configure My Site area of Bing Webmaster Tools. The tool allows you to provide Bing with signals that alert Bing to links you don't trust, according to Bing's blog post. There are no limits to the links you can disavow. Doing so helps send signals to Bing that suggest you want to distance yourself from the site providing the link to you.
The tool is merely a way of letting site owners tell Bing what they think of some of the links pointing back to their sites. "Webmasters have been asking for a way to disavow links for years now," said Bing's Duane Forrester. But what happens if you disavow a link you think is shady, but really isn't? Everything is a signal. The question has become why? Become a Google power searcher. (Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog) You may already be familiar with some shortcuts for Google Search, like using the search box as a calculator or finding local movie showtimes by typing [movies] and your zip code.
But there are many more tips, tricks and tactics you can use to find exactly what you’re looking for, when you most need it. Today, we’ve opened registration for Power Searching with Google, a free, online, community-based course showcasing these techniques and how you can use them to solve everyday problems. Our course is aimed at empowering you to find what you need faster, no matter how you currently use search. For example, did you know that you can search for and read pages written in languages you’ve never even studied? Identify the location of a picture your friend took during his vacation a few months ago? How about finally identifying that green-covered book about gardening that you’ve been trying to track down for years? Is Bing Winning Over SEOs & Is It Enough To Change Market Share? I've been wanting to write about this topic for a long time, but I have not seen a thread on this topic until this week (we have writing policies).
For the past couple of years, the WebmasterWorld forums have been huge supporters of Bing. For the most part, WebmasterWorld (as I see it) is anti-Google and very pro-Bing. It is just the tone of that forum and that forum is a very important forum. Almost all (not 100%) of the official Google reps have left and do not participate but we do have some limited Bing participation. And the tones of most of the threads are pro-Bing and anti-Google, especially from the owner and most of the leaders of the forum. I always wondered, can SEOs, who are early adopters of search, make a difference in search market share in the long run. Was Google's success tied to SEOs noticing the power or was it the opposite, where market share dictated SEO involvement in Google?
A Cre8asite Forum thread asks the same question. Forum discussion at Cre8asite Forum. SEO essentials for startups in under 10 minutes. Google Simulates Human Brain in Search for Cat Videos. Remember Google's secretive X Lab, a place where Google engineers work on futurist projects in fields such as artificial intelligence and robotics? The New York Times reports on one of those projects — a neural network built from 1,000 computers that simulates the human brain. The "brain" was then sent to complete a task familiar to most humans: Find cat videos on YouTube.
The 16,000-processor-strong neural network performed very well; it taught itself to recognize cats from some 10 million digital images found in YouTube videos. What's amazing about this research is how little help the "brain" was given in order to identify the cat. “We never told it during the training, ‘This is a cat.’ Encouraged by the success of the research, Google has transferred the project out of the X lab into its division that works on search and related services.
Image courtesy of iStockphoto, Firstsignal. Google Tests Top Down Search Options & Filters. Tecno-net spotted yet another new Google user interface test. This one has the search navigation, options and filters across the top of the the search results page. It leaves the left hand side wide open and blank for a lot of other uses such as maybe ads? Here is a picture what it looks like: This is what it may look like in the future with ads on the left and data on the right: Here is a video of how it works: Do you think Google is trying to open up the left and right for more ads?
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