Tag Archives: Search

Google is adding features to its search engine to combat misinformation. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images In 2014, if you were to Google “King of the United States,” you would have seen a picture of Barack Obama, yelling passionately into a microphone while at a podium. That’s not true, of course. But Google proclaimed it with authority after surfacing a Breitbart article entitled, “All Hail King Barack Obama, Emperor Of The… Source link

The team behind Google Search is tweaking its featured snippets — the text boxes that sometimes spread false information while trying to offer help. The company announced an update that’s supposed to make answers more accurate and avoid the problem of false premises, or questions where no definitive-sounding answer would make sense. It’s paired with an expansion in Google’s “about this result” option and warnings for low-quality data voids, as well as a new partnership on… Source link

Every time someone enters a query into Google, the search engine applies a complicated equation to discover precisely what the searcher is looking for. All sorts of factors are included in this predictive algorithm, but one of the important ones is the searcher’s location. Google has been very clear about the emphasis it puts on local search. And that’s great if you’re a neighborhood mom and pop serving a small geographical area. But what happens if you have multiple locations? Or if… Source link

The former chief of the Justice Department’s national security division said Tuesday that the FBI warrant for the search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla., suggests prosecutors believe they have probable cause that there may have been violations of the World War I-era Espionage Act. That law has traditionally been used to target government leakers, such as former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. But it also “actually has provisions that apply to essentially the… Source link

Google has apologised for a software update issue that caused a major international outage on Tuesday. A spokesperson for the company said the team had “worked quickly” to address the fault and services were back running as normal. “We’re aware of a software update issue that occurred late this afternoon Pacific Time and briefly affected availability of Google search and Maps,” they said. “We apologise for the inconvenience. We worked to quickly address the issue and our services… Source link

Google updates search results for product review pages by listing an item’s pros and cons in the search snippet. In addition, there’s structured data to go along with this update, but it’s not 100% mandatory to qualify for the new snippets. While the new pros and cons structured data is recommended, Google says it will try to pull the information into the snippets automatically. Here’s what’s changing and how to manually add the structured data to your product review pages. New… Source link

Google’s adding a new option to help users support Asian-owned businesses, with a new ‘Asian-owned’ attribute available within Google My Business profiles. As displayed in the video, the new ‘Asian-owned’ attribute adds a badge to that business’ display, in both Search and Maps, which could help guide users that are looking to support minority-owned businesses in their decision-making. Google added business identity… Source link

Google is adding a label to help searchers easily find businesses that self-identify as Asian-owned. Google’s addition of business attributes that highlight identity popped up first with tags for women-led businesses in 2018. Later that year, Google added labels to distinguish veteran-owned businesses on searches and Maps. In July 2020, Google introduced its label to focus searches seeking Black-owned businesses, in September 2021, Google added a Latino-owned tag, and most recently in… Source link

Ken Griffin — who needs him? Nobody at the announcement last week of Google taking over the Thompson Center uttered anything close to that sentiment, but it hung in the air of the building’s atrium as Gov. J.B. Pritzker and others paraded to a podium to heap praise on Chicago’s new BBF — best business friend. Joining the governor were… Source link

Responsive Search Ads – RSA for short – are not the new kids on the block. RSAs have been a part of the PPC ecosystem for a few years. That being said, RSAs have been a hot topic in 2022. Why all the hubbub about them now? This summer, the preceding ad type, Expanded Text Ads, is being deprecated. This puts Responsive Search Ads front and center for advertisers as the singular text ad type for search campaigns. Let’s dig in a little bit… Source link