Google has released a form to help us submit spammy, deceptive, and low quality web pages. You can even bulk submit up to 5 URLs at a time that violate the same Google policies. Google’s post explains that it’s not just about spam. They say that “Now, you can report spam, paid links, malicious behavior, low quality, and other search quality issues, all in one improved form.” [Read more…]

All the talk around the water cooler nowadays, amongst SEOs, is Google’s Search Generative Experience (SGE). For a simple explanation, I asked Google Bard to explain it to me. And it wasn’t a very simple explanation. It was quite longer than I expected. [Read more…]

Starting May 3, 2023 (today), Google is integrating passkey support for Google Accounts. You will be able to create a passkey to “simplify the way you sign in” according to an email sent to eligible Google users. [Read more…]

Google is finally sunsetting their Google Glass product. They had discontinued support for Google Glass a while back, but they’re finally going to stop supporting Google Glass Enterprise Edition. The Google Glass Enterprise Edition was mostly being used by companies. [Read more…]

Okay, I get a good number of spam emails and occasionally I get some very odd emails. And I’ve come across some people who have a lot to say about Google. There are a lot of rumors out there about Google’s privacy practices, what they monitor, what they track, and soforth. [Read more…]

Sometimes Google is not very family friendly. I mean, we all know that you can turn on and turn off Google’s SafeSearch feature. Their SafeSearch feature might not apply to events, though. I don’t currently have the SafeSearch filter on, since I really do need to see what search engine results are showing up for certain keywords. [Read more…]

I recently got an email directly from Google congratulating me on reaching 100 million views on my Google Maps photos. That’s 100,000,000 views. I was particularly surprised that I reached that many views on photos I’ve uploaded to Google Maps business listings. However, I knew that I was getting close as I had recently seen that I was at about 90 million views, thinking that I needed to go out and take more photos. I thought I would go ahead and tell you how I reached this number of views. I’ll go through my process, and explain some of the benefits from doing what I do. [Read more…]

Google is sending out emails to businesses, using a type of scare tactic, to inform them that upcoming legislation could harm their business. In the email, they state that if legislative bills are passed, the changes could make it harder for customers to find your business, hurt your productivity, and cost your business time and money. In reality, the legislation is designed to ultimately protect businesses from companies like Google. [Read more…]

Add this to the list of Google services that they’ve created and then shut down. Google Cameos (also known as Cameos on Google) is shutting down on February 17, 2022, just less than a month from now. On that date, if you have access to Google Cameos, then you will no longer be able to record and upload videos.

Google is showing, and in many cases, ranking Amazon’s search results in their search results pages. If you search for a keyword in Google, such as ‘smores k cups’, one of the top ranking results in Google’s organic search results is Amazon’s search results page for that same keyword, ‘smores k cups’. This is a big deal for several reasons, but I don’t think it’s acceptable to rank search results pages in the search results pages. It’s just a bad user experience overall. [Read more…]