Search Engines

Google Gives Publishers New Content ‘Showcase’ on News, Search And Discover

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On October 1, in an announcement, Google is rolling out Google News Showcase to select markets. Not only that, the company is also committing $1 billion to partnering publishers. Regarding News Showcase, here’s what Google said: “News Showcase is made up of story panels that will appear initially in Google News on Android. The product …

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How to Submit Your XML Sitemap to Google, Bing, and Yahoo

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The most important part of on-page SEO allows search engines to crawl and index your pages. On-page SEO is all about increasing your discoverability in search engines. You can’t do this without allowing these search engines to access your pages. This is where crawling, indexing, and ranking comes into play. In this video, the folks …

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Is Google E-A-T Actually a Ranking Factor? – Whiteboard Friday

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A number of SEOs believe that displaying authority, expertise, and trustworthiness in the content on your site is important in regards to ranking well. This is because Google E-A-T is a ranking factor, right? In this episode of Whiteboard Friday, Cyrus Shepard talks about whether it can be considered a true ranking factor, making your …

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Shopify Launches Post-COVID POS, Yelp Rolls Out Omnichannel Tools For SMBs

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For years now, omnichannel has become a buzzword in the retail industry and has been somewhat synonymous with digital transformation. Now, there is more urgency as traditional merchants need to place more emphasis on technology, e-commerce and integrated online and offline during COVID-19. Shopify has launched  an update point-of-sale (POS) system for the post-COVID retail …

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Ecosia To Join Chrome v81 Default Search Engine Choices

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According to a TechCrunch report, Berlin-based search engine, Ecosia, will be included among Chrom version 81’s default search engine choices in the US, UK, Germany, France and 43 other markets. Ecosia is joining Google, Bing, Yahoo! and DuckDuckGo, which added to the list this time last year. Ecosia boycotted Google’s Android choice screen auction in the EU, which …

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Google Dataset Search Is Out Of Beta And Adds New Features

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On January 23, Google announced that it brought Google Dataset Search out of beta and is now completely live. Google has also added new features to the speciality search engine. With Google Dataset Search, searchers can find datasets that are stored across the web through keyword searches. “The tool surfaces information about datasets hosted in thousands …

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Bing Spotted Showing Domain Sources In Image Carousels

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A new image carousel feature is being tested by Bing that features a preview of the image accompanied by the page title and domain name on its main search results page. “We’re experimenting with it on a set of image answer queries,” the Bing Images team said. This test was seen by digital marketing consultant …

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Ecosia Says It Will Boycott ‘Search Choice’ Auction On Android In Europe

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Ecosia, the Berlin-based search engine, says that it won’t participate in Google’s “search-choice” auction for Android devices in 2020 in Europe. With this coming to light, will others follow? Earlier in August, Google announced that it will introduce a new “choice screen” in Europe for Android users in 2020. The screen will be displayed when setting …

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‘Swipe to Visit’ has arrived on Google Images

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Google has launched “Swipe to Visit,” an Images search feature that displays a preview of an AMP-enabled website’s header after a user selects an image result. After that, the users can swipe up on the preview to load the images’s corresponding web page. With visual searches, users can efficiently scan and compare many offerings By …

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Yelp Offering More Paid Profile Upgrades For Business Owners

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Yelp is introducing new paid-promotion tools for business owners to give them more control over how they appear to users. These tools also count as non-advertising, revenue-generating products for the company. The intent of these products is mainly to help business owners, but they also bring more value and utility to consumers too. This news …

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