Google users are now seeing the new “Play” option in the menu indicating the new media hub from Google has gone a notch up in their list of priorities.
March was the month of consolidation, trimming and updates for Google and as part of the process “Play” was softly released to public.
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Wolfram|Alpha goes beyond simple text input by allowing you to input images directly into the search box. You can analyse and process images and text in whatever way you wish to. Pro subscribers have access to more features including 20 free image uploads per month, ability to compute your own data and longer computation times.
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We asked search engines to tell us a basic fact: Number of people on Earth. This is what they told us. Scroll through and compare the results:
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Google+ Timing is a web application which tells Google+ users more about the impact of timing on post popularity among their circles. It breaks up your posts and orders them by popularity (best hours and days of the week to post).
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Keyword visualisation compiled from the most frequently asked SEO questions and issues webmasters faced in March 2012.
In the period between 1st and 20th of March there were 330 questions asked while only 30 marked as answered.
Prominent keywords and phrases include:
Source: https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!categories/webmasters/webmaster-tools
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From April 2012 you can expect to see faster click through from Google search results as the search engine switches to the “referrer” meta tag to handle the referring URL from organic search results. The feature will be available only in browsers which support it (e.g.
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We knew it already but now Google confirms. Pages which give errors such as 404 or 500 eventually drop out of index and lose PageRank and are unable to accumulate or pass any search engine signals.
“If a URL becomes an error, for example a 404 or a 500, we will try to keep it indexed for a very limited period of time.
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Today, Australians will see a fun new logo on Google’s home page. The new Google Doodle has been designed to celebrate 80th birthday of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
The logo links to the following search query, which invites users to explore more about the Australian iconic bridge:
Fun Fact
When you don’t type anything in Google search box and click on “I’m feeling lucky” you will be taken to Google’s Doodle collection.
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Today we noticed a way to potentially inflate the amount of (not provided) keyword in Google Analytics. Traffic from links on https://www.google.com and some of its subdomains will be treated as organic traffic with the keyword (not provided) and not as referral traffic as we would expect.
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Google is determined to level the playing field, reward good content and punish the cheaters. How will they achieve this?
There is plenty going on at Google at the moment but let’s highlight three key elements relevant to this article, even though they may not be as obvious at first:
Web spam and aggressive SEO tend to have a domino effect due to lack of ‘justice’ and equal treatment of all websites by Google.
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