As Alex covered, Google Alerts has added a new way to filter down the alerts you get from Google.

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…

Posted by Dr-Pete Sometime in January, Google quietly rolled out a change that I believe could revolutionize organic search. Currently, the impact is limited, and it may take months or years for the full effect to be felt, but the underlying shift is fundamental to the future of the Knowledge Graph and the delicate symbiosis between Google and webmasters.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Slaps Greek Sites With Penalties It appears that Google has taken action on spammers, potentially link spammers, in Greece recently.

A new Marin report says that if mobile device growth continues at its current pace, it will represent half of the clicks in paid search by December 2015. This and more in its 2014 annual report on mobile search advertising around the globe.

Quora announced new Verified Profiles today, now adding a checkmark to profile pictures of public figures and writers deemed worthy by the site. According to Quora, it doesn’t accept verification requests, but instead will determine who gets a verified profile based on whether a… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answered a question about Google penalties in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in to ask: How can you tell if your site is suffering from an algorithmic penalty, or you are simply being outgunned by better content? Although the user didn’t specifically ask about […] Author information Matt Southern Matt Southern is a marketing, communications and public relations professional. He provides strategic digital marketing services at an agency called Bureau in Ontario, Canada.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is attempting to “eradicate” Twitter from Turkey in response to leaks and criticism of the government. But it didn’t take long for users to find workarounds to continue accessing Twitter

Google posted in the Google AdSense Help forums that payments will be made a bit later than normal due to the timing of when the weekend falls out. Google said in the thread that instead of payment going through around March 22nd…

Google’s amazing predictive search tool, Google Now, is finally being made available to people on desktop and laptop computers using the regular release of its Chrome browser. Until now, it had only been available to through mobile devices or to those using beta versions of Chrome.