Google announced on Google+ that they launched a new licensed content answer for the search results, this one is on how to make certain cocktails with cocktail or drink recipes…

Posted by Dr-Pete Last year, Google expanded the Knowledge Graph to use data extracted (*cough* scraped) from the index to create answer boxes. Back in October, I wrote about a failed experiment

Gary Illyes, the man to blame at Google for the HTTPS algorithm, shared a “small” analysis Google ran on HTTPS URLs…

As marketers, the more data we have the more targeted our messaging can be. Knowing what your audience is saying about topics related to your business can be a valuable source of consumer insight.

Google Webmaster Trends Analyst, Garry Illyes, posted on Google+ early this morning with a clear message to site owners: “please tell search engines about your HTTPS URLs!” According to a small scale analysis of indexed URLs, over 80% of HTTPS URLs that are eligible for indexing are instead being displayed as regular HTTP URLs because Google isn’t aware of the HTTPs variant. HTTPS URLs cannot become canonical (HTTP redirecting to HTTPS) until Google is notified about them. Instead, what most site owners are doing is using the HTTP URLs in sitemap files, in the rel-canonical and rel-alternate-hreflang elements

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

Google’s long term CFO has told the company he wants to retire over the next six months but will help the company find a replacement. The post Patrick Pichette, Google’s CFO, To Retire appeared first on Search Engine Land.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

We are excited to announce SEJThinkTank’s next webinar will be held on March 18th at 1 pm Eastern, 10 am Pacific. The post #SEJThinkTank Webinar March 18th: Google Analytics Tips for Web Publishers by @dantosz appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Our third invite-only, one day conference for enterprise marketers will be held at the Hard Rock Hotel in Chicago on Wednesday, April 15, 2015. The post Here Is The Agenda For #SEJSummit Chicago! by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .