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Things, not strings

Things, not strings
Cross-posted on the Inside Search Blog Search is a lot about discovery—the basic human need to learn and broaden your horizons. But searching still requires a lot of hard work by you, the user. So today I’m really excited to launch the Knowledge Graph, which will help you discover new information quickly and easily. Take a query like [taj mahal]. For more than four decades, search has essentially been about matching keywords to queries. To a search engine the words [taj mahal] have been just that—two words. But we all know that [taj mahal] has a much richer meaning. The Knowledge Graph enables you to search for things, people or places that Google knows about—landmarks, celebrities, cities, sports teams, buildings, geographical features, movies, celestial objects, works of art and more—and instantly get information that’s relevant to your query. Google’s Knowledge Graph isn’t just rooted in public sources such as Freebase, Wikipedia and the CIA World Factbook. 1. 2. 3.

Important SEO Habits to Adopt for Post Panda-Penguin Era Survival In a constantly changing SEO landscape, it is important to remain up-to-date with the changing practices and strategies of optimization. Every year, search engines like Google introduce new updates in the SERPs, thereby widely affecting the rankings of the various websites. Last year, Google launched the Knowledge Graph aimed at helping users find relevant information easily and fast. This search model is referred to as an “intelligent” way to find the right results for queries with different meanings. It is also an attempt by Google to help users better understand a topic by summarizing important facts and relevant content about the search query. For instance, if you typed the word “rio” in Google search bar, you will be given these different types of suggestions to help you find the correct result to your query. Moreover, the Knowledge Graph also provides a broader and deeper understanding of a given topic. Think Originality and Relevance Add Authenticity Develop Clean Website Structure

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Google Launches Knowledge Graph To Provide Answers, Not Just Links Hinted at for months, Google formally launched its “Knowledge Graph” today. The new technology is being used to provide popular facts about people, places and things alongside Google’s traditional results. It also allows Google to move toward a new way of searching not for pages that match query terms but for “entities” or concepts that the words describe. Knowledge Graph? “Graph” is a technical term used to describe how a set of objects are connected. Big Change, Subtle Appearance Earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal wrote about the coming change. Big change, but I don’t think it’ll be a shocking change to most Google users who will begin seeing it over the coming days on Google.com, if they’re searching in US English. Google will still look largely the same as it does now. Knowledge panels don’t always appear, only showing up only when Google deems them relevant. Fact Surfing 3.5 Billion Facts About 500 Million Objects Again, those are just some of the categories. Fixing Bad Data

Search Engines More Trusted Than Social Media For News & Information [Study] When it comes to getting general news and information, consumers worldwide put as much trust in search engines as they do in traditional media — and more in both than they do in social media. But, the numbers don’t portray any single source as highly trusted, which suggests that consumers are at least trying to vet the accuracy and trustworthiness of what they find in today’s information-saturated world. The data comes from the recently released 2013 Edelman Trust Barometer, the 13th annual global survey that uses data from “informed publics” — college-educated individuals in upper income brackets that follow public policy issues and are active media users. Trust in media, the survey says, is up five percent over last year, with search engines and traditional media topping the list: 58 percent overall said they trust those sources for news and information. Trust is much higher in emerging countries (the green columns above), and among younger consumers (the bottom half of the chart).

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Knowledge Graph : Google officialise son moteur sémantique Les règles du jeu semblent distribuées depuis quelques jours entre les deux géants du search : Bing se lance dans le social tous azimuths, aidé par ses relations étroites avec Facebook et Twitter. Google, limité par le succès trop faible de son réseau Google+, se tourne - pour l'instant - vers d'autres voies d'innovation et intègre de plus en plus de sémantique dans ses résultats. Déjà en phase de test depuis plusieurs mois, ces fonctionnalités ont été annoncées officiellement par Google sous le nom de "Knowledge Graph". Cette nouvelle vision permet d'obtenir de très nombreux renseignements sur les "entités nommées" (noms de personnes, d'entreprises, de lieux, etc.) contenues dans la requête de l'internaute. Le "Knowledge Graph" sera présent dans les pages de résultats de Google, au fur et à mesure des semaines qui viennent, sous 3 formes différentes : - Désambigüisation de la requête demandée. - Propositions de liens pour en savoir plus sur des sujets proches de celui recherché :

The Best Link Building Tool You’ve Never Heard Of: ahrefs.com I love SEO tools. I’m always building or looking for really cool tools. With the demise of Yahoo Site explorer, a number of companies are attempting to fill the void, including SEOMoz, Majestic Tools and Link Research Tools. My favorite Yahoo replacement is a tool that you’ve probably never heard of: ahrefs. They offer 5 levels of access (with one being free) and the others being grouped by the amount of reports and queries. This is a highly sophisticated toolset with tons of features. Backlink Analysis Starting with Site Explorer, input any URL to get all of the backlink info that you could ever need or imagine. The summary provides a snapshot of Total backlinks, Ref pages, Ref ip’s, Ref subnets, Ref domains and domain types by TLDs. A series of tabs, allows you to drill even deeper into New Links, Lost Links, Anchor text, crawled pages and referring domains. Interpreting the Data For competitive purposes, this is a great quarry to mine for backlinks. SERPs Analysis Website Comparison

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La recherche passe à l’ère sémantique (et sociale) (et pas visuelle) La semaine dernière, la frénésie autour de l’IPO de Facebook était a son apogée et qui a fait passé presque inaperçu un changement majeur pour le web : l’évolution du fonctionnement de la recherche de Google (Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings). Google à l’assaut du web sémantique avec son Knowledge Graph La raison majeure de cette évolution est la prise en compte de données sémantiques dans les résultats de recherche. Le principe est le suivant : plutôt que se fier à des chaînes de caractères, Google va maintenant travailler à partir de données structurées (“Things, not strings“). Ces données structurées sont la résultante des travaux de sémantisation des contenus initiés par les équipes de Google il y a de nombreuses années qui avaient déjà permis de faire des premières expérimentations (notamment la roue magique qui depuis a été mise hors ligne : Google Knowledge Graph, un pas vers la recherche sémantique). Présenté de cette façon, ça à l’air très bien. Yahoo!

Responsive Design & Mobile SEO: Best Practices for 2013 We’re shifting into a world in which smartphones and tablets are beginning to rule the roost in terms of connectivity. More people are searching for information via mobile phones, tablets, and smartphones. Mobile Web browsing is on the rise. Yelp reported several months ago that about 40% of searches came from their mobile app. What does this mean for website owners? The future is mobile and the future is happening right now. Googlebot Mobile, Google’s Recommendations, and More Ideas and opinions about mobile SEO were floating around long before Google’s formal recommendations for mobile websites got posted. I won’t get into the details of Google’s recommendations for making mobile-compatible variations of a web page, but briefly, they are: Responsive design is the best way forward in the present web demography. A responsive design, on the other hand, discards all such complexity and makes things simple. Why a Responsive Web is Better Why this method is better: Easier to Develop: 1. 2. 3. 4.

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Google : le 'Knowledge Graph' génère plus de requêtes... et de publicités Abondance > Actualités > Google : le 'Knowledge Graph' génère plus de requêtes... et de publicités Google a indiqué que depuis le lancement de l'application sémantique Knowledge Graph sur son moteur de recherche, le nombre de requêtes avait augmenté de façon importante. En effet, Amit Singhal, l'une des principales têtes pensantes de l'algorithme de Google, l'a indiqué dans le Wall Street Journal, information confirmée par le service de presse du moteur. Cela est logique dans le sens où le "Knowledge Graph" propose de nombreux liens concernant l'objet de la requête et de l'"entité nommée" détectée. D'ailleurs, cela pourrait clairement être à l'avantage de Google : l'internaute tape une requête sur la page d'accueil du moteur, obtient les résultats du Knowledge Graph, reclique sur les liens de recherche proposés, etc. Bref, qui est le gagant de cette nouveauté sémantique ?

Google penalises Interflora and UK newspapers for failing to comply with SEO regulations The website for flower delivery company Interflora has disappeared from Google search pages, amid accusations that the company has been manipulating links to improve its search ranking. Both Interflora and Google have declined to comment, but SEO experts have been blogging about the impact of Interflora's actions on search engine optimisation (SEO) and digital marketing. Interflora’s website has been removed from Google’s search results only - its website still ranks first on Bing for the terms “Interflora” and “send flowers”, suggesting that the flower company is being penalised by Google. David Naylor, head of the SEO marketing team at Bronco, told Computer Weekly that Interflora is being punished by Google for paying newspapers to publish advertorials on their websites with links back to Interflora. “In January, Interflora, in order to get ready for Valentine’s Day, paid newspapers to run stories which were only there to get links to improve their Google ranking,” he said. Email Alerts

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