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Google’s Matt Cutts search integrity tour, plus: core updates, Carol Bartz becomes Yahoo CEO, Baidu censors Google and more. Matt Cutts educates Washington, DC about Google In 2011, Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s search spam team, was in Washington DC, doing an “educational tour” to explain to US Federal Trade Commission members and congressional staffers that Google’s search results didn’t r...

Consumers are ripped off every day and it’s because we are too trusting, too gullible or just don’t think. It’s easy to have something bad like this happen. So, let’s make it more difficult. Protection starts by educating yourself. Say you want to self-publish your writing. You might do an internet search. Think about it a minute. The company’s website is going to be filled with glowing praise ...

Eduardo Antonio and Lenier, together with mariachis, perform the classic and romantic play Mentiras. This ballad is the next beautiful piece to be added to the growing collection that El Divo de Placetas is known for. Mentiras tells the story of a woman (played by actress Imaray Ulloa) who lied to two men out of love. Set in a garden in the company of Eduardo Antonio, Lenier and a group of ou...

Google, or Alphabet, (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) owns the most popular search engine in the world and is in an advertising market duopoly along with Meta (META). Despite its strengths, the company’s stock price has been butchered by over 38% since its all-time high in November 2021. This has been driven mainly by the tepid advertising market, given then the macroeconomic environment. A positiv...

Google said that a decision in the Supreme Court case regarding terrorist content and Youtube’s algorithm could change the internet for the worse. The search engine argued in a brief filed on Thursday that Gonzalez v. Google, a case for which the court will hear oral arguments next month, could transform the internet. Google implored the courts to uphold existing interpretations of Section 230,...

Property owners in the Village of Slocan are seeing their house and land values rising higher than anywhere else in the Valley Voice readership area once again. BC Assessment released this year’s property assessments – based on market value as at July 1, 2022 – just after New Year’s. The value of the average single-family dwelling in Slocan, a town of about 270 people, rose from $295,000 in 202...

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google spoke again about using AI-written content for your site and for rankings. Apple launched Business Connect to allow businesses to manage their Apple Maps local listings better. Google Search is testing trending stories from your country and reg...

Google has confirmed that the December 2022 helpful content update is now finished rolling out. The update took 38 days to roll out, starting on December 5, 2022 but was first noticeable on December 6th, and ending on January 12, 2023. Google has posted it was completed today, January 12. As a reminder, Google’s helpful content update is a sitewide signal. It targets websites with a relatively ...

Google has confirmed that the December 2022 link spam update is now finished rolling out. The update took 29 days to roll out, starting on December 14, 2022 and ending on January 12, 2023. Google has posted it was completed today, January 12. What is a link spam update. A link spam update looks to neutralize, or no longer count, links that Google finds to be spammy and against Google’s guidelin...

Half of the court cases that we report on below from last month involve legal proceedings related to the sports industry: golf caddies, tennis pros, and sports editors. Misclassification within the multi-faceted sports and athletics industry has been addressed by courts and administrative agencies in many of the cases about which we have reported over the years, including high school referees, ...