So we are sitting here wondering if we had an update yesterday and a few in July, Google was radio silence about those unconfirmed updates.

Here’s how disconnecting from social media allowed me to realize the importance of self-care.

However, use of an auction for inclusion on the choice screen has some search rivals complaining.

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In this new design, Google is not showing as many local results by default.

Yesterday, Google announced that in the coming weeks broad match modifier and phrase match keywords will also begin matching to words within the search query that share the same meaning as the keyword. The SEM/PPC community is not surprised but still very frustrated by this news.

Google has recently changed it so the suggested clip, where Google search jumps you to a portion of the video with the answer you are looking for, no longer takes you into YouTube.com. Instead, it overlays a window, a modal, that plays the video in a black frame above the Google search results.

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

Posted by PaulShapiro Maybe it’s crossed your mind once or twice before:

Finally, we knew this was coming, and now it is here, Google posted advice on what you can do it help your site perform better in the Google search rankings in the days of Google’s core algorithm updates.