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Google’s John Mueller answered a question about what to do about spammy links. The links and a subsequent “penalty” coincided with the date of one of Google’s 2021 spam updates. Mueller provided guidance for this specific situation. Spammy Links and Correlations The person asking the question related that spam sites were linking to non-existent pages and triggering a 404 response. Google Search Console may alert publishers to 404 error responses but that in itself is not a… Source link

Google’s office collaboration tools Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drawings will now show a warning banner when you open potentially malicious files from the web, the search giant has announced. This banner already appears when dodgy files are accessed from within Drive, as well as from suspicious links within separate Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drawings files. The broader rollout should help protect users in a wider range of situations. Confusingly, Google’s January 20th announcement post… Source link

In a Google SEO Office hours hangout, someone asked Googler John Mueller related the situation of articles talking about his site but that the mentions of the brand name or domain name were not linked to his site. What he wanted to know was if those mentions of his domain and brand name could pass some sort of signal. John Mueller’s answer was clear and without ambiguity. Brand Mentions The person asking the question brought up the topic of domain name mentions and if Google uses them… Source link

Droplets Inc. is owed $15 million because Yahoo! Inc.’s Search Suggest feature infringes one of the company’s patents, a California federal jury found. Search Suggest offers suggestions when people type words into the Yahoo search bar. The jury decided Tuesday other Yahoo products, including Yahoo’s Search History feature, Yahoo Mail, and Yahoo Maps didn’t infringe Droplet’s U.S. Patent No. 6,687,745, covering a system for delivering interactive links. Courtland Reichman of Reichman… Source link

Droplets Inc. is owed $15 million because Yahoo! Inc.’s Search Suggest feature infringes one of the company’s patents, a California federal jury found. Search Suggest offers suggestions when people type words into the Yahoo search bar. The jury decided Tuesday other Yahoo products, including Yahoo’s Search History feature, Yahoo Mail, and Yahoo Maps didn’t infringe Droplet’s U.S. Patent No. 6,687,745, covering a system for delivering interactive links. Texas-based Droplets filed the… Source link

Google is expanding its free hotel booking links to show on Search and Maps, the company announced Wednesday. The company is also adding reporting capabilities, support for hotel rates in Google Business Profiles and rolling out Local Posts to hotels as well. Image: Google. Free hotel booking links expand to Search and Maps. In March 2021, Google started offering free listings within Google Hotel search. Now, the company is adding support for free hotel booking links… Source link

Created by filmmaker Nikkhil Advani of Emmay Entertainment, The Empire traces the origins of a historic dynasty. Starring Dino Morea, Kunal Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Drashti Dhami, and others, the show released on Disney+ Hotstar today (August 27).  Kunal Kapoor is seen in the role of Mughal emperor Zahir ud-Din Muhammad Babur in The Empire while Dino essays the role of the antagonist in the show. The Hotstar Specials’ show is based on Alex Rutherford’s ‘Empire of… Source link

A search marketer in India noticed what looked like a test in Featured Snippet. One search marketer called it “shady as hell.”  But according to a statement from a Google spokesperson, that is a bug and not a feature. The alleged test involved embedding links to more Google searches from within a website publishers content that is in the featured snippet. These kinds of links are called Search Refinements. Embedding a search refinement within a featured snippet was not well received from… Source link

The UK news publisher that owns the Daily Mail news organization filed a lawsuit against Google accusing it of abusing monopoly control of search to punish websites as part of a scheme to maintain control over Internet advertising markets. The majority of the lawsuit documentation is concerned with Google’s domination of Internet advertising. It portrays the Daily Mail as a victim that is powerless to control its advertising business and is forced to submit to diminishing revenue because of… Source link

An upcoming feature in Chrome 90 will allow users to create a link to a section of a website that they’ve highlighted. First launched as a browser extension called Link to Text Fragment last year, Google has now added the feature within Chrome itself. The new feature is still rolling out to users; I wasn’t able to get it to work even after I updated to Chrome 90. But the feature works just like the browser extension did, according to a blog post from Google product manager Kayce… Source link