What has caught my eye in Google this week? Google Places Forum Weekly Video Wrap Up Vanessa Schneider, the Google Places Community Manager over at the Google And Your Business forum has started a weekly video overview of the topics from the forum. I have to say – with the number of posts on that […]
A Week in Google – 6th May 2012
The weeks are flying by… here’s a quick round up of what’s caught my eye in Google this week. Google Search Updates Google announced 53 search updates throughout April. Pandas and Penguins aside, there’s a few other interesting changes: Improvements to local navigational searches. [launch codename “onebar-l”] For searches that include location terms, e.g. [dunston […]
A Week in Google – 29th April 2012
Catching my eye this week in Google… 2 Major Updates – Penguin and Panda Well, I couldn’t fail to miss these with the amount of posts around the web. Google announced they would be targeting web spam. This update was later given the name Penguin. While everyone was summing up changes and who was worst […]
This Week In Google – 22nd April 2012
Google Places Local Search Bug Earlier in the week, it became apparent that all was not well with local search. Searching for any local business – in the example below it’s Plumbers Widnes, everything looks fine. Until you click the “see more results” link. You’re redirected to a local search results page as expected, but […]
This Week in Google – 15th April 2012
Isn’t it lovely and quiet? Google have given us some breathing space. Time to reflect on the turmoil of search the last few weeks! Instead, the focus is on a beautiful Google as Google+ is redesigned to look suspiciously like a Facebook timeline. A Simpler, More Beautiful Google 170 million users have upgraded to Google+ […]
A Week in Google – 8th April
How fast a week flies when you’re having fun or taking part in a blogging challenge… Well at least this post brings me up to date with that! Google Places Hangout on G+ Google Places help had their first questions and answer G+ Hangout on Wednesday. If like me you missed it, the recording is […]