At SMX Advanced earlier this month, Gary Illyes from Google spoke about how Google uses – and does not use – clicks. Google uses clicks made in the search results in two different ways – for evaluation and for experimentation – but not for ranking. Noisy clicks He does say they see those who are […]
Archives for June 22, 2015
Google to Remove “Revenge Porn” in Search Results
Google is introducing a new feature this summer that will make it much easier for people to remove “revenge porn” of themselves from the Google search results. Our philosophy has always been that Search should reflect the whole web. But revenge porn images are intensely personal and emotionally damaging, and serve only to degrade the […]
Emojis Removed from Titles in Google Search Results
RIP Emojis in the Google search results. It took almost two months, but Google has finally removed the emojis that were showing up as titles. Expedia was the first major website to begin showing emojis in their title tags, however it didn’t catch on too much with Google announcing that they would be removed from […]