Google is going to make it possible for anyone to add to street view through a program called “Street View Ready.” Typically only Google’s Street View cars have been able to add to the Street View database, but soon anyone with the right hardware will be able to as well. The Insta360 Pro camera that is required
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Moz report: 50% of page one search results are HTTPS
Based on the trend of sites switching to HTTPS and what is ranking in Google, we may see 70% of the page one results going to HTTPS by the end of 2017. Pete Meyers from Moz reports that according to their keyword tracking tools, half of the page one search results in Google show HTTPS
Continue readingGoogle testing ‘tags’ label in search results snippets
A new Google experiment updates the search results snippets to show tags related to the page. But these tags don’t seem to do much of anything. Google has confirmed to Search Engine Land that they are experimenting with a new feature in the search results. I happened to stumble upon a search results snippet in
Continue readingGoogle launches new effort to flag upsetting or offensive content in search
Google is undertaking a new effort to better identify content that is potentially upsetting or offensive to searchers. It hopes this will prevent such content from crowding out factual, accurate and trustworthy information in the top search results. “We’re explicitly avoiding the term ‘fake news,’ because we think it is too vague,” said Paul Haahr, one of
Continue readingRIP DMOZ: The Open Directory Project is closing
DMOZ — The Open Directory Project that uses human editors to organize websites — is closing. It marks the end of a time when humans, rather than machines, tried to organize the web. The announcement came via a notice that’s now showing on the home page of the DMOZ site, saying it will close as
Continue readingNatural News was not banned from Google over fake news
A Google webmaster violation is the reason this website was penalized by Google, not its controversial nature. Natural News, a controversial alternative medicine website, according to Wikipedia, has been delisted from Google. The news site confirmed being removed from Google and recently claimed Google banned them because the site was pro-Trump. Google has confirmed the
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