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Local Query Suggestions Based Upon Where People Search
People search from many different places, and the things that they...
The 3 Most Important Steps in a Website HTTPS Migration
If you’ve done any website work over the last 5 years,...
How Google May Associate Images with Search Results
How Images Maybe Chosen for Search Results A few years ago,...
7 Free Design Tools to Create Impressive Graphics
This is my very first ‘Oprah’ moment. Being a frugal graphic...
Caffeine: Google’s Indexer
Google search engine updates are often mysterious events, but sometimes I...
Better Organic Search Results at Google Involving Geographic Location Queries
Has Google gotten better at organic search results involving location queries?...
Did the Groundhog Update Just Take Place at Google?
A story that ran at Search Engine Land a few days...
How Google May Identify Device Locations Using Magnetic Fields from AC Powerlines
The Value of Knowing Location of Searchers to a Search Engine...
Google to Extract Keywords from Image Text?
Might Google Extract Keywords from Image Text? A couple of years...
Semantic Topic Modeling for Search Queries at Google
What is Semantic Topic Modeling? I came across some interesting papers...
Google’s High Quality Sites Patent
You may recognize the names of one of the inventors of...
Google to Use Distance from Mobile Location History for Ranking in Local Search
Does Mobile Location History Affect Local Search Ranking? Ranking factors for...
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