
Google Shows Offline Analytics Capabilities With Holiday Store Traffic Data
Like so many others, Google is putting out holiday shopping data this week. I’m sitting on 40 or more studies and surveys that discuss...

New Google Play “Warning”: App May Contain Advertising
Is “advertising” becoming a dirty word? In the broader climate of complaints about low-quality ads and ad blocking, it’s interesting to...

Make It So: Google’s Voice-Search-Enabled Star Trek Communicator Pin
Credit: Google Google, and search czar Amit Singhal in particular, have long been trying to develop experiences that mimic the...

Is Google Now Becoming A News Reader Too?
Ever since “stories to read” started appearing in Google Now, I’ve been eager for Google expand the section. Now Google appears to be...

Google Will Fight Russian Antitrust “No Mandatory Apps” Ruling
Seeking to avoid a potential “precedent” that might be emulated elsewhere, Google will challenge the Russian antitrust agency’s...

Yandex Takes Fight Against Google & Android To European Commission
Prompted by a complaint from Yandex, Russia’s antitrust regulator found that Google-required pre-installed Android apps violated Russian...

Google’s Efforts To Monetize Mobile Pay Off, But Sites See A Hit To Organic Visits
Google has made some of the biggest changes we’ve ever seen to the way it serves mobile ads over the past four months, helping to drive...

Android 6 “Marshmallow” & SEO Series: Sponsored Google Now Cards
Google Now is Google’s predictive search solution that tries to anticipate a user’s needs before the user searches. It presents...

Android 6 “Marshmallow” & SEO Series: Google’s Private Index & Screen Crawling
As over-the-air updates for Android 6, also called Android Marshmallow, start slowly rolling out to some Nexus devices, many SEOs are...

Hunger Games & TOMS Shoes Tap Into New YouTube Virtual Reality Video Support
According to the announcement, two brands are already taking advantage of the VR feature: Hunger Games and TOMS Shoes. YouTube said users...

Google To Combine Android And Chrome Operating Systems Into One
This afternoon, the Wall Street Journal reported that Google will be “folding” Chrome into Android. What this means as a technical matter...

Alphabet (Google) Q3 Beats With $18.7 Billion, Mobile Search Revenues “Strong”
Google announced revenues $18.7 billion, which represented 13 percent year over year growth vs. $16.5 billion a year ago. Revenues beat...

What CMOs Need to Know About Google’s AMP Project
Earlier this month, Google announced the Accelerated Mobile Page Project, or AMP, a new open-source initiative aimed at helping pages...

FAQ: What We Know About The Yahoo-Google Search Deal — So Far
In October, the Company reached an agreement with Google that provides Yahoo with additional flexibility to choose among suppliers of...

Virtual Reality: Google Cardboard vs. Facebook’s Oculus Like Android vs. iOS
The question hanging over Virtual Reality (VR) is whether it will truly become “the next great technology platform that’s going to define...

Love, Not War: Microsoft & Google End Patent Suits
Yesterday Google and Microsoft agreed to dismiss multiple patent lawsuits against one another. While the settlement terms were not...

Apps Using Google’s New App Indexing API Will Receive A Ranking Boost
Back in February Google announced that apps that leveraged App Indexing would begin to rank better in mobile search. Today at SMX East,...

Google Enhances Dynamic Remarketing Ads To Adjust Across Devices
Google announced today that dynamic remarketing ads will now adjust automatically to fit all devices. Brad Bender, vice president of...

Yext Launches Xone Beacon Network For Offline-To-Online Engagement
Yext, which has primarily been a business data and presence management company, has launched Xone, a new (free) in-store beacon program...
























