Google Expands OneBox Answers, Now Able To Solve Math Questions
Google expanded their OneBox answers this month with the added ability to solve math problems. The announcement was made earlier this month, but it kind...
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Matt G. Southern, Senior News Writer, has been with Search Engine Journal since 2013. With a bachelor’s degree in communications, Matt specializes in gathering details, checking facts, and making complex subjects easy to understand. In addition to writing articles, Matt oversees strategy development for SEJ’s news department.
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Twitter Adds Photo Tagging And Collages To iOS And Android Apps
Twitter announced they will be adding two new features to their iOS and Android apps to make photos “more social.” Taking a page from Facebook,...
Matt Cutts Explains How To Tell Google Multiple Domains Are Related
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about linking domains together in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in...
Facebook Allows Advertisers To Find Similar Customers With Expansion To Lookalike Audiences
Yesterday Facebook announced an expansion to their lookalike audiences capabilities that will help advertisers find more customers who are similar to their existing ones. Facebook...
Google Teams Up With Makers Of Ray-Ban And Oakley To Add Style To Google Glass
Google announced this week they will be teaming up with Luxottica, makers of designer eye glass frames like Ray-Ban and Oakley, to bring some style to Google...
Facebook To Acquire Virtual Reality Headset Maker, Oculus, For $2 Billion In Cash and Stock
Facebook announced today the company has reached a “definitive agreement” to acquire Oculus VR, Inc. for a total of approximately $2 billion, which includes $400 million...
Google Granted A US Patent For Panda Algorithm
Three years after Google rolled out the first version of its Panda algorithm, Google has been granted a patent for it by the US Patent...
Twitter Experimenting With New Feature To Show How Many People Viewed Your Tweets
Twitter is reportedly experimenting with a new feature (see this link for a screenshot) that would show users how many people viewed their individual tweets. The view...
Larry Page Discusses The Future Of Google At #TED 2014
Larry Page, co-founder and CEO of Google, sat down with Charlie Rose last week at TED 2014 to give an in depth interview about what...
Matt Cutts Explains How You Can Tell If Your Website Has Been Hit By A Particular Algorithm
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answered a question about Google penalties in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in to...
Google Dispels Top 10 “Myths” Associated With Google Glass
Google took to the Google+ page of Google Glass yesterday in an attempt to dispel the top 10 “myths” associated with the product. They claim...
Twitter Is Reportedly Phasing Out @-Replies From Its Service
Twitter is reportedly in the alpha stages of experimenting with a new version of its service that would see @-replies become phased out. BuzzFeed reports that Vivian Schiller,...
Ann Smarty of MyBlogGuest Responds To Google Penalty
Matt Cutts broke the news via Twitter early this morning that Google’s webspam team had penalized a “large guest blog network.” Today we took action...
Matt Cutts Explains If You Can Use Multiple Breadcrumbs On A Page Without Confusing Googlebot
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about site structure in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in to...
Google+ Posts Just Got Better: Now Featuring Large, Facebook-like Thumbnails
Google+ updated their user interface this week to make link posts stand out in the stream with bold titles and extra large images. The change...
Matt Cutts Explains What To Do With Pages For Products That Are No Longer Available
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about ecommerce sites in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in to...
March 18 SEO Meetup at AirBnB’s HQ In San Francisco: “Future Proof” SEO
On Tuesday, March 18, ItsTheROI.com will be hosting a meetup at Airbnb’s headquarters in San Francisco. The event will be focused on future proof SEO...
Matt Cutts Explains How To Let Google Know When There’s A Mobile Version Of A Page
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about mobile sites in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in to...
SEO Expert Jason Acidre, AKA Kaiser The Sage, Takes Part In Informative Reddit AMA
Jason Acidre is the Co-founder and CEO of Xight Interactive, an online marketing agency based in the Philippines, but he’s best known for his blog...
Facebook Introduces New Company Page Design, Featuring New ‘Pages To Watch’ Section
Facebook announced yesterday they will be rolling out a new “streamlined” look for company Pages on the desktop version of their site. The new look...
Pinterest Releases First Ever Transparency Report: US Government Has Asked Them For Data
Pinterest is following the lead of Google, Facebook, and Twitter by releasing their first ever transparency report detailing they have received requests from the US...
Facebook Unveils A News Feed Redesign Focused Around What Users Like
Facebook announced they have begun rolling out yet another new look to their News Feed, this time they are listening to their users and giving...
Google Is Sending Notifications About Duplicate Listings Issues In Google Places
Google has been sending notifications via email to business owners about issues related to duplicate Google Places listings. I received such an email a few...
Yahoo News: Company Acquires Vizify, Removes Facebook And Google Log-In Options
Yahoo has been in the news multiple times over the past 24 hours, which is notable considering the company doesn’t get nearly the amount of...
‘Free Images Online’… from Getty Images?! Getty Makes Millions of Stock Photos Free to Use
Huge news broke this evening that Getty Images, boasting a library of over 150 million high-resolution stock photos, is releasing millions of free images online. Getty...
Google Announces New Analytics Academy Class Starting Next Week
In an effort to help digital marketers become more data savvy, Google launched the Analytics Academy in October of last year. The first course Google...
Bing Launches ‘Bing Saves’: Save And Organize Content Found Through Bing Searches
Bing has officially launched a new feature designed to help users save, organize, and share the content they find on Bing searches. Bing Saves is...
Microsoft’s Siri Competitor ‘Cortana’ Is Seen In Action For The First Time
Apple has Siri, Android has Google Now, and Windows finally has their own proprietary voice search assistant called “Cortana.” Modelled after a character from Microsoft’s...
Google Has Added OneBox Restaurant Menus To Search Results Pages
Google has officially announced a new feature that was reportedly spotted in the testing stages several weeks ago, which is the addition of restaurant menus...
Google Give Tips For Identifying If Your Site Has Been Hacked, And How To Fix It
A post went up on Google’s official Webmaster Central Blog last night from a representative of the Search Quality Team providing tips for how to...