Above is a higher resolution image of the Google Doodle for the Women’s World Cup first U.S. match. You can click on the logo to see the higher resolution version.

Just when you thought the death of emojis in Google has started, it continued to live on but it even got stronger. Cyrus Shepard posted on Google+ an example of him being able to get an Emoji based URL indexed and ranked within the Google search results in “less than 30 minutes…

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As anticipated, at its WWDC conference today, Apple introduced public transit routing as part of iOS 9 Apple Maps upgrades. It also introduced new local search capabilities, which are part of a broader search initiative that we discuss separately

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

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: Bing Ads Redesign, Tumblr GIF Search & Thumbtacks Google Penalty appeared first on Search Engine Land

Thumbtack’s co-founder confirms the company received a Google manual action for links, vows to take the necessary steps to reverse it. The post Confirmed: Google Capital-Backed Thumbtack Hit With Manual Action For Unnatural Links appeared first on Search Engine Land

Most requirements go into effect in September, 2015.

At Apple’s keynote during the Worldwide Developers’ Conference, the company introduced plans to upgrade Siri’s voice search capabilities and make Maps more efficient.

As Yahoo discontinues features like Maps and Pipes, the search powerhouse continues to modernize with others, such as Tumblr’s new GIF-based search engine.