Google has introduced two updates to rich snippets including global support of product rich snippets and HTML input inclusion in rich snippet testing tool.
Product Rich Snippets
Product rich snippets give us the ability to display price, availability, ratings and similar extra information to our core snippet.
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For the past few months, Google Currents has been in various states of testing and review while its parent company irons out the wrinkles. Only US customers have had access to its web-based and mobile service, at least until now. That all changes with the debut of Google Currents for international users, which delivers Currents to UK readers for iOS and Android.
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Dan Petrovic in a Google hangout with scientists from CMS Experiment at CERN.
Questions:
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Matt Cutts from Google has just announced that they have sent out 20,000 messages to owners of websites which may have been hacked.
As part of Google’s search quality efforts, strong communication with the webmaster community continues via numerous on-line channels.
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The Google Art Project is an effort to bring some of the world’s great art museums into the homes of web users everywhere and allow them to get closer to fantastic artwork than they ever could before.
Over 150 museums have teamed up with Google to put high-resolution scans of pieces from their collections online to be viewed at no cost to the user.
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Last year, Google announced the inception of a joint scholarship effort between itself and the Associated Press, known now as the AP-Google Journalism & Technology Scholarship. Recently, the inaugural award recipients were announced on Google’s blog. Each student will receive $20,000 to study in areas related to journalism, media technology and computer science.
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Google has released a service that allows professionals in a given field to quickly and easily determine the popularity of various journals and conferences within their field of expertise. Known as Google Scholar Metrics, the service allows a user to specify a search term, such as “surgery,” and receive a ranking of the publications with that term that were cited the most within the last five years.
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In this article we describe quantitative metric-based link spam detection in a collection of analysed domains. Accuracy and co-relation ranges from 60 to 90 percent with adjustment of different quality parameters. Our technique is still considered to be ‘work in progress’ and may not be fit for accurate automated action.
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Google Plus gets a brand new design featuring a complete layout and look & feel overhaul. The rapid design changes and releases at Google are nothing new and their new attitude towards product release is to get things out there and see what happens.
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Google clarifies webmaster questions around potential conflicting nature of rel canonical and hreflang annotation.
Briefly about rel=”alternate” hreflang=”x”
Websites which serve the same content in multiple languages can utilise the rel=”alternate” hreflang=”x” annotations to help Google decide which version to serve to which language group.
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