Google’s No Country Redirect, where you can visit google.com instead of your local Google site at google.com/ncr is not working for some users outside of the US.

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 Alan_Coleman By now, we’re all pretty used to Knowledge Graph results in the SERPs.

Hackers are injecting content into websites to get Google visitors, then redirecting them elsewhere. The post Bait & Switch Hacking Is Gaining Top Rankings In Google appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: Cortana Voice Activation, Yahoo Mobile Upgrade & First Day Of Winter appeared first on Search Engine Land.

The winter Google logo, aka Doodle, for the first day of winter in the United States is not on Google.com. It is in Canada, Mexico, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom, Japan and even Kazakhstan but not the United States of America

The animated snow globe on Google’s U.S.

This week’s SEJ Wrap-Up is about Google’s plan to roll out accelerated mobile pages in February 2016, and a handy social media infographic cheat sheet. The post SEJ Wrap-Up: Get Ready for Google Accelerated Mobile Pages & 2016 Social Media Cheat Sheet by @megcabrera appeared first on Search Engine Journal

An update to Microsoft’s Cortana app for Android removes the “Hey Cortana” hands-free activation feature.

Google’s featured snippet feature, where it shows a large block of text scrapped from a third-party site…