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- A multi-screen and conversational search experience
- Posted by Amit Singhal, Senior Vice President. Google Inside Search, 15 May 2013. "Search has always been about giving you the best answers quickly, regardless of what device you use. At Google I/O today, we gave an update on where we are in building the search engine of the future--a search engine that can answer your questions, have a conversation with you, and even give you useful things without you ever having to ask..."
Added: 16 May 2013;
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- The end of search as we know it
- by Stephen Hutcheon. The Age, May 16, 2013. "San Francisco: The head of search at Google wants to blow up web search. And the demolition job is already under way. Amit Singhal, Google's senior vice-president of engineering, revealed the plan on Wednesday at Google I/O, its annual developers' conference.In short, the typewritten keyword search is yielding to voice-driven conversational search. And, down the track, more anticipation of what the searcher is seeking will be built into responses..."
Added: 16 May 2013;
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- Google Testing Search Results Without URLs
- by Barry Schwartz. Search Engine Land, May 3, 2013. "Google is testing yet another user interface change – this time by not showing the URL of the search results on the page..."
Added: 9 May 2013;
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- Google Notifying Searchers That They Use Cookies (EU Localized Google)
- by Barry Schwartz. Search Engine Land, April 8, 2013. "If you search for anything at Google UK or on any of the 27 localized versions of Google in the European Union, Google will now prompt you with a notification that they are using cookies to provide search results to you. In fact, Google says that by using Google search you are agreeing to allow Google to place cookies on your computer..."
Added: 9 April 2013;
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- A simple, yet powerful custom search engine
- Posted by Manolis Kounelakis and Neelesh Bodas, Custom Search team. Google Custom Search Blog, Wednesday, January 16, 2013. "Simplicity and speed are two principles we love when it comes to design at Google. Today, we’re excited to announce the new CSE layout that displays results in an overlay, on top of any content on your page..."
Added: 25 February 2013;
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- Google – and everyone else – wins by High Court decision
- Written by Stephen King, Professor in the Department of Economics at Monash University. Delimiter, Monday, February 11, 2013. "The High Court has ruled that Google did not engage in misleading and deceptive conduct when it published a number of advertisements created by its AdWords program. Does this mean that the advertisements themselves were not misleading and deceptive? No! Everyone agrees that they were. Rather, the decision clarifies the law for publishers, including those using the internet..."
Added: 13 February 2013;
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- Google claims victory in ACCC court battle
- by Dan Harrison. The Age, February 6, 2013. "Internet search giant Google has won its legal battle with the consumer watchdog, after the High Court overturned a ruling that the company had engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct. The ruling ends a six-year legal battle in which the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission alleged that sponsored links using keywords for Honda, Harvey World Travel, Alpha Dog Training and Just 4X4 magazine were published by Google and led consumers to rival firms..."
Added: 6 February 2013;
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- Google must change search business practices after FTC decision
- By Rachel King for Between the Lines. ZDNet, January 3, 2013. "Summary: The FTC has issued a number of decisions in its complex investigation of Google, ranging from changes to search business practices to licensing Motorola-owned patents. The Federal Trade Commission handed down a full bag of decisions in its antitrust investigation of Google during a press conference on Thursday. Essentially, Google is going to have to make a number of changes to its business practices -- especially regarding search..."
Added: 6 February 2013;
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- Google Details How It Responds To Government Requests For User & Search Data
- by Barry Schwartz. Search Engine Land, January 28, 2013. "Google has written a blog post documenting their legal process and approach to dealing with government requests for user and search data, highlighting a new section now available in Google that also answers more of these questions. Governments routinely ask search engines like Google for access to user data for various reasons. From search logs, to email accounts, to browser history, to purchase history. Google says they take each request incredibly seriously..."
Added: 5 February 2013;
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- Google (not provided) on the Rise: The impact of Google's SSL enhancement on SEO data
- Optify, Inc, November 2012. On October 21, 2011 Google announced that it would be 'enhancing [the] default search experience for signed-in users' by making SSL search the default search for signed-in users. This change encrypts your search queries and Google’s results page and means that visits from organic search listings no longer include the information about each individual query. Instead, Google started passing the term '(not provided)' as the referring keyword for those organic search visits. This study is set to explore the impact of the SSL enhancement, also known as the '(not provided)' issue, on the organic visit referral data collected by publishers and website tracking solutions..." [Requires registration]
Added: 14 November 2012;
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- Study: 39% Of Google Search Referrers Now 'Not Provided'
- by Barry Schwartz. Search Engine Land, November 13, 2012. "It is just over a year since Google began encrypting search by default for signed-in users. A new study finds that as a result, 39% search-related traffic from Google to web sites now has search terms withheld. Optify conducted a study over eleven months with 424 web sites, involving 17,143,603 visits and 7,241,093 referring keywords, to see how serious the “not provided” issue is..."
Added: 14 November 2012;
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- The Skirmish That Could Threaten Google News
- By Emily Chertoff. The Atlantic, November 2, 2012. "What if Google had to start paying for each link that shows up when you do a search? It would totally wreck the company's business model, right? And maybe change the nature of search engines too? An insurrection may be coming, and it is starting with Google News. Here's the timeline. A couple of weeks ago, a group of 154 Brazilian news websites comprising 90% of the country's market share made a pact to jump out of Google News. The websites, which are part of Brazil's National Association of Newspapers (Associação Nacional do Jornais, or ANJ), had been negotiating with the search engine. They wanted it to pay a fee for linking to their content. Google execs said the plan could only backfire and hurt those websites by wrecking their traffic, but ANJ responded that the website is "irrelevant" and announced that its members had agreed to ban the site, which they then (really!) proceeded to do..."
Added: 5 November 2012;
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- Dark Google: One Year Since Search Terms Went 'Not Provided'
- by Danny Sullivan. Marketing Land, October 19, 2012. "A year ago, Google began going dark. Dark in terms of no longer sharing with publishers, in some cases, how people searched for and found those publishers through Google's search engine. The 'single digit' percentage of withholding that Google predicted at the time has turned into more than 50%, in some cases. If Google's withholding were an eclipse, more than half the sun is being covered. 'Dark Google' is upon us, and it will only grow darker..."
Added: 23 October 2012;
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- Searchers Don't Want Social in the SERPs, Prefer Bing's Layout to Google's [Study]
- Posted by Nathan Safran. Connector Blog, September 5, 2012. "...Much has been written about the 'what' — the divergent paths each have taken with social, with Bing partnering with Facebook and Twitter, and Google famously emphasizing their own social network. Yet, far less has been written about the 'how' — the differing paths each have taken in how they each choose to present the growing cadre of information in their search engine results pages. In identifying this lack of perspective on the layout choices of the engines, we developed a methodology to extract the opinions of searchers about SERP layouts for queries that include social and universal results..."
Added: 19 October 2012;
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- Google Searchers 3x More Likely To Be Logged-in Than Bing
- by Nathan Safran. Search Engine Land, October 18, 2012. "A study we recently did at Conductor found that search engines still have work to do when it comes to integrating social search results in the SERPs: 62% of respondents reported they do not want or gain benefit from social results mixed in with search results. In the same survey, we asked the 150 respondents about their social network login behavior when using a search engine. Specifically, we wanted to know the frequency users are logged-in to the search engine’s featured social network (Google and Google+; Bing and Facebook) when searching on the engine..."
Added: 19 October 2012;
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