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In the starting days of September, Google launch the Sitelink search box that gives webmaster the capacity to control how Google handles searches conducted within the search within this site, in the snippet area of Google search result. Google now gives the control to the webmaster to disable the feature completely. For example, if you search for in Google, Google will add a box under the first YouTube result, that lets you search within just the youtube.com domain, this also known as a site command search. Developers have more control over how those searches work and if they land on your internal site search pages or not . Now, as spotted by  Menashe Avramov , Google included a new feature to disable the sitelinks search box from showing up completely. By the using a new Meta tag you can disable the Sitelink search feature names nositelinkssearchbox. Here is the meta tag for Webmasters. <meta name="google" content="nositelinkssearchbox"> ...

Reuters Software giant Google Inc plans to launch a mobile messaging app it is likely to test in India and other emerging markets, the Economic Times reported on Friday , citing sources. If launched, the mobile app will compete in the mobile chat space with the likes of WhatsApp, Line and Hike. The daily said Google was in the early stages of development of the app, which will not make it mandatory to use a Google login. Moreover, unlike WhatsApp, where users have to pay Rs 53 annually after one year of usage, Google's messaging app will be free. The Mountain View, California-based company is also looking at localisation, by adding Indian language support and voice-to-text messaging, the newspaper said. A Google spokeswoman said the company did not comment on speculation. Source:-  http://bit.ly/1xIZHMs

Google’s latest patent gaining buzz is one that seems to suggest the search engine will know what television show is playing near the device a person is using to perform a search on.  Bill Slawski, founder of consulting and SEO service company, SEO by the Sea, keeps a watchful eye on Google patents and what they may mean to the future of search. In his latest observation,  he points out a patent  by Google granted on September 16 proposes a new way to marry television and search results.  The patent  is described as a “system and method for enhancing user search results by determining a television program currently being displayed in proximity to an electronic device.” Why would Google want to do this?  A look into the patent shows that Google wants to improve the results of those who are performing a search while watching a television program, where the search is related to the program.  From the patent documentation: A TV viewer (some...

Reuters / Aly Song Dozens of tech giants, including Google, Yahoo, Apple, Facebook and Twitter, have written to the US government urging ‘to bring to the floor’ a bill which gives more privacy protection to their users’ emails and other information stored on their servers. The companies want Email Privacy Act to be approved by the authorities. It was introduced May 2013 and is still waiting to be passed by the US bodies. The new bill “would make it clear that the warrant standard of the US Constitution applies to private digital information just as it applies to physical property,” say the companies in two letters to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid . The authors of the letter believe that the new bill would help the US companies who are “seeking to innovate and compete globally.” The letter states, “It would eliminate outdated discrepancies between the legal process for government access to data stored locally in one’s home or of...

Few days ago Head of Search Spam Matt Cutts gives us a video that describe how Google evaluating new search algorithm which one they are going to use or which one they are going throw away. A question was asked by James Foster of Sydney: What metrics Google used to calculate that one function of the ranking algorithm is gives the good quality result to user than other? Matt Cutts give the answer into the three steps, that how they evaluate search algorithms: They test the results of the algorithms and compare their results rank with the new algorithms offline, If the URLs in the result are of high quality then the last algorithms takes place. The quality of a URL is based on search quality raters that how they rate the URLs in the last cases. If the URLs are not rated, then Google could request the raters  to rate the new URLs or benchmark the previous search result to this set of new test. Based on these metrics, Google can decide to carry on to the next lev...

In these days Google Business help Forums have received many reports by Business owners about Google Place Listings that they are receiving mail forms Google with the Subject line: “Attention: 3 weeks left to save your Google Places Listing.” The Format of the massage in the body was: Hello, We are going to do some changes in Google Maps, So we’d like to have your confirmation and review on the information in your Google Places account, Otherwise we are not able to keep and show it to Google users after 21/02/14. If you want to keep your listing alive, Follow these 3 steps:          1. Access to your Google Place account          2. Read and Confirm your Details          3. Enter the “Submit” button Sincerely, The Google Places Team The Google’s Business Community Manager Jade Wang , Has confirmed that this is the legal email which is send out...

Hey, There  is an announcement made by Google that it is in the collaboration with carmaker  Audi  to develop in-car  entertainment and information system that would be based on Android Operating system. This announcement will be made officially  by next week at the Consumer Electronics at Las Vegas, and which will aim music and navigation system in-car integration which are currently available on Smartphones. According to Cnet, This collaboration will challenge Appel’s IOS system in cars, Which helps users to use their iphones as an receiver and for entertainment purposes. This collaboration  has so far joined hands with  automakers like BMW, Honda, Mercedes, Nissan, Infiniti and many more to integrate more iOS features into their cars. But Google Android power system will run on the vehicle's built-in hardware, whereas Apple’s OS requires an IOS device. According to the report this collaboration will kick off  Apple's infotai...

Hey there is update by Google in Page Rank Toolbar; The   Google Page Rank toolbar updated in over 10 months, The Google Page Rank Toolbar was last updated in February 2013. Couple of months ago Matt Cut’s said we could see the updated Google Page Rank Toolbar in the end of the 2013 and here all we are Google just updated it’s Page Rank Toolbar in the morning of 6 December . In the SEO community it’s always a big deal when Google announced such type of update in Internet Marketing and Page Rank Toolbar because the Page Rank Toolbar is clearly visible metric to determine the quality of website and how many good back links pointing on the website. Page Rank is only one of the most valuable quality factors that taken into account by Google’s search algorithm thus it is important not to obsess over it too much. Google Page Rank Explained by this