So Gary Illyes from Google was at this event, which I was not at , and he said at the event that the mobile first index might not launch in 2017.

Is some claim true or not? Google hopes special callouts for fact-checking articles will help searchers get the right answers or better make their own decisions.

Was Ashley Madison’s web site penalized by Google months ago? Maybe.

We’ve seen it before, negative SEO threats. Bill Hartzer recently got one and asked Google what to do.

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…

National brands with hundreds – if not thousands – of locations face a daunting challenge. With nearly one third of all mobile searches now related to location, the competition for visibility at the local level has heated up.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: Siri search, Google Maps spam & Google mobile-first index appeared first on Search Engine Land

According to a survey from Fivesight Research, Siri had a larger share of mobile search than Bing or Yahoo. The post Siri is Google’s nearest mobile search competitor [Report] appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Company cites machine learning and new business verification techniques as main reasons for the decline. The post Google says it has reduced fake Google Maps listings by 70% since 2015 appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.