Google will now automatically delete people’s search and location history after 18 months, as it attempts to calm concerns from regulators that it controls too much information about individuals.
Google has been forced to post an apology after its search engine failed to show a photo of Sir Winston Churchill, blaming it on an update glitch in its Knowledge Graph tool.
Google has confirmed that various user engagement signals will become official ranking factors in 2021, such as mobile-friendliness, load time, safe-browsing, stability of content, HTTPS and number of intrusive interstitials.
Nearly half of all ecommerce-related searches on Google never result in consumers clicking through to a retail or other website according to a new study.
Google’s parent company Alphabet has revealed a 13% surge in first quarter revenue despite a “significant” hit to advertising sales as the COVID-19 crisis continues.
The Guardian news website is the most visible source on Google when Brits search for information about COVID-19, according to new data.
The UK saw the biggest average increase of all countries, while local search volume for restaurants in the UK and similarly in France plunged to 95% below expected levels, according to new global research.
Keyword-based safety strategies are unduly denying brands access to vast viable ad inventories during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to new research.
Google says its release of location data will assist local health authorities better understand how effective social distancing measures are in a given community. Google has publicly released a series of COVID-19 Community Mobility Maps, utilising location history data from users around the world to present insights into how people are moving around local communities. … [Read more…]
Wikipedia is the most visible website in Google’s organic search results globally, but YouTube is catching up very fast according to new research.