SearchCap: Google Knowledge Maps, Right To Be Forgotten & No Google Algorithm Updates
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google is expanding its Knowledge Graph into Google Maps. The company has confirmed to Search Engine Land that some locations in Google Maps will now get a new Quick Facts info card, and that the data are from Googles Knowledge Graph. This new feature began appearing on Monday (May 12). The info card appears in []
Today, the Bing Ads team announced the launch of live chat support and a new industry insights portal. Live Chat will be available at all hours every day of the week for in its English-language markets. Customers can use Live Chat to ask questions about campaign set up, optimization tactics, billing issues and more. The []
The Apple-focused website 9to5Mac.com reported today that Googles iOS Search app has been updated to version 4.0, with new voice search cues and customized alerts from Google Now. With the updates, the apps new voice search cues offer more conversational-styled search queries. According to the apps iTunes page, users can have a smarter conversation, asking []
The right to be forgotten: a triumph of individual privacy rights or censorship? Its going to depend on how it plays out in specific circumstances. The Luxembourg-based European Union Court of Justice, Europes top court, ruled earlier today that Google can be compelled to remove information about individuals from search results as part of a []
Over the past week or so, there has been a lot of various signals across the search community that Googles algorithms and rankings were updating; so much so that people were bracing themselves for a major Penguin or Panda-like algorithm announcement from Google. Google never made the announcement, and so I asked Google if anything []
There are a lot of questions around link building tactics these days, especially when it comes to how companies can actually build links that wont get them in trouble. In fact, one of the most common questions I hear at conferences and from clients is, How do you build good links? The answer, of course, []
Search for [miami heat] on Google and you may not just see information about scores, schedules, standings and so on, but you may also see a video hosted on YouTube from the NBA with a game recap. Google is now showing video thumbnails in the NBA knowledge graph. The picture above shows how the result []
Yesterday, Search Engine Land featured a post about the Internet Archives Wayback Machine now providing access to more than 440 billion archived web pages back to 1996. As Ive written about before on Search Engine Land and my infoDOCKET blog, the Wayback Machine is an absolutely essential resource for just about every web user. If []
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SearchCap: Google Knowledge Maps, Right To Be Forgotten & No Google Algorithm Updates