Google drops the supplemental results label -- but will that calm webmaster nerves? A Google ad with a "plus box' map is spotted -- new test in progress! Google says behavioral targeting isn't on the cards in the near future and more, in today's episode.
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- Google Dumps
The Supplemental Results Label
As many expected, Google has announced that it is dumping the supplemental result label for pages listed within its supplemental index. Does that mean the supplemental index has gone away? No. But Google promises that being in the supplemental index versus the main index should be less of an... - Google Hides Supplemental Results Label in Google.com: Webmaster Reaction, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google's Last
Visited Time Stamp Gets Down To The Minute
Google Cache Showing Last Retrieve Dates in Minutes at Search Engine Roundtable shows how Google is now showing when it last visited some pages on a per minute or per hour basis, rather than in the traditional per day style. For example, this is how Google has normally shown last... - Google Maps
Plus Sign In Sponsored Results
AccuraCast reports seeing Google UK experimenting by placing a Google Maps expand feature within Google sponsored results.... - Aaron Wall
Does Q&A With Danny Sullivan
Aaron Wall of SEO Book has posted a new interview with me. I normally don't highlight these type of interviews here on the blog, but Aaron asked a lot of interesting questions that really got me thinking -- and I thought readers here might like a heads-up about it. In... - Google: Not
Ready To Behaviorally Target
We explained a few weeks ago how Google was using search history to refine the ads it shows to searchers. But for now, Google says that's as far as it plans to go to behaviorally target people. Google wary of behavioral targeting in online ads from Reuters goes into more... - Google Gets
Some Of What It Wanted From The FCC
Google is seeking to penetrate and open up the walled garden that is the US wireless market. Carriers are the gatekeepers, controlling access and the devices available to consumers. In Europe the situation is quite different, allowing consumers to buy any phone and essentially use them with any operator. Google... - Google,
Microsoft & Others Want Copyright Warnings To Be Clearer
Google, Others Contest Copyright Warnings from the Wall Street Journal reports the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), which includes Google and Microsoft, are filing a complaint with the FCC about how some content companies are taking their copyright warnings a bit too far. The CCIA would like the FCC... - SEO 101 : I Built It, So Where Are They?, Search Engine Journal
- SEO 101 : Links, Search Engine Journal
- Top Lines Overheard at Search Engine Strategies After Hours Parties
- Another Google Calculator Easter Egg, Google Blogoscoped
