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The desktop Google Photos website seems to be getting the ability to scan for text in an image and turn it into copy-and-pasteable text, thanks to Google’s Lens technology (via 9to5Google). Lens has been available in many places on Android for a while, but its optical character recognition (OCR) feature coming to the desktop could make Google Photos an easy and free way to get real-life text onto your computer. According to 9to5Google, the feature seems to be rolling out widely, but a… Source link

What’s the Best Practice for Anchor Text? LSI Keywords is Not a Thing Best Anchor Text for Internal Links Google’s Mueller recommended this for internal link anchor text: Best Practice for External Link Anchor Text Best Anchor Text for Inbound Links Does Web Page Provide Context to Internal Links? Citation Google’s John Mueller answered a question about the best anchor text to use for internal, inbound and outbound links. His answer covered a wide range of linking scenarios. What’s the Best… Source link

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You should switch to Google Messages if you don’t already use it.  Sarah Tew/CNET … Source link

Several Android apps are getting some useful updates.  Sarah Tew/CNET Google just  Source link

Several Android apps are getting some useful updates.  Sarah Tew/CNET Google just  Source link

Google’s John Mueller says there’s no inherent SEO benefit to adding an audio version of a text-based web page. This topic is discussed during the Google Search Central SEO hangout recorded on February 12. The following question is submitted to Mueller: “Would adding an audio version of a page’s content help with search in any way? Other than the obvious accessibility improvement.” Adding an accompanying audio recording to a written post is something more publishers have been doing as… Source link

Learn how to use tab stops, not spaces, to control horizontal alignment of text in Google Docs. Illustration: Andy Wolber/TechRepublic Spaces and tabs both add distance between characters in a Google Doc. By default, each tap of the tab key advances your cursor to the nearest… Source link

There is one key difference between using many words in anchor text compared to using fewer words, according to Google’s John Mueller. The topic of anchor text is discussed in the latest SEO office-hours live stream (formerly Webmaster Central office-hours) from November 27. Specifically, Meuller addresses the following question: “Do you treat anchor text that contains many words differently in comparison to anchor text that contains 2 words only? I mean do you assign more value to those two… Source link

LeBron James has caught no shortage of flak for how he announced he was joining the Miami Heat back in 2010, but there was apparently at least one person who had a problem with how he left the team. That person would be Chris Bosh, who discussed the circumstances of his former teammate’s departure for the Cleveland Cavaliers in free agency during an appearance on Thursday’s episode of the “All the Smoke” podcast. When asked by host Matt Barnes how James told him of the decision, Bosh… Source link