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Google shared on Twitter a street view image on Google Maps of a dog in Japan chasing a Google Street View Car. It is pretty funny and they said on Twitter "so we have a new mascot. This pup was chasing our Street View car in Japan and now, our hearts."Pretty funny!This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting photos related to the search industry and share them with our readers. … [Read more...] about A Dog Caught Chasing The Google Street View Car

We know that Google says you can spam and stuff the meta keywords tag all you want, it won't cause a penalty because Google simply ignore the meta keywords tag. Thus, it is pretty obvious that using the meta keywords tag with real keywords relevant to the page is also not going to cause any sort of penalty.But someone wanted to be sure that having a meta keywords tag on your page would not cause a Google penalty. Gary Illyes from Google said don't worry, it won't cause a penalty. He said on Twitter no, it won't cause a penalty and added "but also not used for anything." So feel free to go crazy with the meta keywords tag, that is, if you don't care about other search engines that may use them or not - such as Bing.Forum discussion at Twitter. … [Read more...] about Google: Using The Meta Keywords Tag Won’t Cause A Search Penalty

Here is a personalized feature in Google search around passed searches you did for vacations or trips. Sergey Alakov posted a screen shot on Twitter of a carousel feature in search that shows "you recently viewed" these places in Google search and "only you can see this."It shows Sergey passed places he viewed in Google local. But Sergey said he only "conducting several branded hotel searches" but did not necessarily visit any of these through Google search.Here is his screen shot:Brad Brewer who may be the only person who watches the hotel Google search results more than Sergey said he has been seeing these for the past few months now. He wrote on Twitter: So I guess it has been around for a bit but still new to me.Forum discussion at Twitter. … [Read more...] about Google Local “You Recently Viewed” Search Panel

If you search for some local businesses that have been using Google Posts but may have stopped using them so recently, Google may show a link towards the bottom of the local knowledge panel that says "view previous posts."Colan Nielsen spotted this and posted about it in the Local Search Forums, he wrote "Just noticed that Google is testing out a "View previous posts on Google" at the bottom of the local knowledge panel when a listing has no live Google Posts."Here is a screen shot that you can click on to enlarge:I was able to trigger it for [sterling sky inc] but you can try other queries if you like.I doubt anyone will be clicking on that "view previous posts on Google" link but hey, Google is testing it.Forum discussion at Local Search Forums. … [Read more...] about Google “View Previous Posts” To Highlight Old Google Posts

Google's John Mueller said in a video hangout that Google can technically process canonicals within JavaScript. This is assuming that what is shown in the JavaScript doesn't conflict with other signals. John confirmed this on Twitter when Patrick Stox summarized it.John said this at the 12:35 mark into the video when the question was presented:Question: I guess my question is implementing hreflang and then modifying a canonical tag using JavaScript. So you see that being an issue or something that Google would recognize?John Mueller's Answer: That could work.Here is the video embed because John then goes into some of the difficulty around this:Here is Patrick's tweet summarizing it with John from Google confirming: Forum discussion at Twitter. … [Read more...] about Google Can Process Canonical Tags In JavaScript