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Gary Illyes of Google was asked if someone steals your original image, makes no changes to it, and they embed it on their own site, can the original image holder benefit from that. Gary’s short answer was no, but he said it is possible you do get some benefit he said. Here is how Gary […]

Google does fun things with some of their walls and here is one that has these dots/holes or maybe pixels that glow and light up. If you zoom out on the photo, you will see it makes up the Google logo. This was at the Google Kirkland office and posted on Instagram several weeks ago.

It is beyond words to have to write about the loss of Erik Stafford, who passed away suddenly this past week. Erik was only 48 years old, and leaves behind a wife and children. To many, he was not just a brilliant marketer and creative director but also a really good and caring friend. Erik

Google’s Gary Illyes described in the latest podcast how Google ranks features or universal results in the overall Google search results user interface. In short, each feature (i.e. news, videos, images, featured snippets, etc) bids for a desired position in the result, they request position X and bid for it. Google’s overall search engine that

We know Google said that Google can index and rank non-HTTPS URLs and content. And yes, that means Google can also crawl non HTTPS URLs. Google’s John Mueller actually confirmed on Twitter that yes, Google does crawl non HTTPS URLs. Here is the Q&A on Twitter: If users go there, sure. For crawling alone it’s

I am sorry for the random static issues, I kept touching the wireless mic by accident. On Monday, Google pushed out a new algorithm update the company called the link spam update. Before that, we saw some movement and ranking changes over the weekend but then it remained quiet, even after the link spam update

Another super interesting and totally geeky aspect to the latest Search Off The Record podcast was Martin Splitt of Google giving a master class on Web Workers and WebAssembly. Specifically how they work and how Google Search thinks about them. This part starts at the 9:43 minute mark into the podcast below and lasts until

Here is what Google sent the Google Product Experts for the virtual summit. This is from Google Ads product expert, Brett Bodofsky. You can see more photos below but there is a puzzle, stickers, a sign, LED table light, a phone stand and charger, cables and more. Here are more photos: @Google really hooked it

Google has changed the guidelines around the fact check ClaimReview structured data guidelines to no longer allow multiple ClaimReview markups per page. You are now only allowed one ClaimReview element per page going forward. Google wrote it has “removed guidance about hosting multiple factchecks per page. To be eligible for the single fact check rich

Gary Illyes from Google posted an awesome question and answer on Twitter talking about pages that are on the edge of the Google quality threshold. He said that if your pages disappear from Google Search and then reappear when you manually submit them to Google, that means you’re on that edge. Gary wrote on Twitter