What’s This Not Provided Stuff About? Since 2010, Google has made encrypted search available to its users. When using encrypted search, your query (keywords) that were previously supplied to owners of the sites you clicked through to stopped being provided. Marketers and Web analysts who have come to measure site visitors by which keywords they …
Are Google Map Results Changing? While doing a recent localized search, I noticed an anomaly in the map results interspersed within the regular search results. Now, we’ve all seen the “map packs” – subsets of around seven mini results sans-description with a location, phone number and map pin labeled by a letter that corresponds to …
Is the new Google+ notification icon a way to look like Facebook and LinkedIn? Or is it an indication that more notification icons may be coming soon?
Chrome apparently had an update that added better spell checking features. To notify me, this little pop-up appeared: There’s one thing you can say about the Google development team – they truly have a sense of humor. It might be subtle. But it’s that little subtle humor that makes you smirk and picks you up even if …
Last week at Google IO, Google announced a new features to Google+ called Google Events. Aside from all the social implications, they also announced that Google+ Events will have beautiful visual invitations that will integrate with your Google Calendar. Turns out, these invitations also integrate with Gmail differently than other calendar events.
I just logged into Google Docs to edit a shared presentation on which I am collaborating and got the following pop-up: This immediately took me aback because I was using Firefox version 10.0.1, the latest version.
Over the past few weeks, Google Analytics changed how it counts visitors. Specifically, GA marks a visitor with a new session if that visitor’s tracking parameters change. On the surface, this may seem confusing. Let’s say a visitor comes to your site from one campaign, leaves your site and comes back from a different campaign. …
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Google announced a new feature to help “manage what people see” when you’re searched for on Google. This new feature, called Me on the Web is really nothing more than Google Alerts in disguise. It is literally in disguise because the interface to adding alerts is different in the Me on the Web section of the Dashboard …
It’s almost that time! Just because winter is over doesn’t mean it’s time for holiday. For every update Google continues to make to its algorithms, people have to keep moving to change with them. Since its roll out in February, the Google Panda update has been the talk of the site owners who were affected and the rest of …
It used to say “Oh Snap!” Apparently that’s not so cool anymore. But what is? Star Trek! Google has always had a sense of humor. Previously, their blue screen error message looked like this: Is this something we should be watching? Will Google be changing this every few versions? Thoughts?
