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This day in search marketing history: March 24

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Twitter adds keyword search to Direct Messages 2022: Twitter announced it was giving users a long-requested feature – the ability to search the direct messages (DM) inbox by keyword. Google Now Comes To Chrome For Desktops & Laptops 2014: It had only been available through mobile devices or to those using beta versions of Chrome.

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This day in search marketing history: February 25

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“We don’t thrive & users don’t thrive unless the ecosystem thrives.” Google’s recent preview of its generative AI search results featured answers to complex questions that were made possible after being trained on content created by third-party publishers, with a grand total of zero links to publishers.

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This day in search marketing history: January 14

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2014: Thousands of hotels listed within Google+ Local appeared to have had links leading to their official sites “hijacked” and replaced with ones leading to third-party booking services. 2014: The feature wasn’t new. 2014: Two video parodies make fun of what a Google would be if it was a real guy. Hell yes we are!

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This day in search marketing history: March 17

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Google Strongly Encouraging Webmasters To Adopt Autocomplete On Forms For Mobile 2015: Google said webmasters should implement autocomplete markup to improve mobile user conversions but didn’t say it would be a ranking factor. 2014: Cutts did not say this was or would be a ranking factor. Ranking Benefit To Making Your Site SSL?

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This day in search marketing history: February 7

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Noogler: SEO is spam, ads help you rank In 2012, a Googler made headlines when he said “SEO isn’t good for users or the Internet at large,” and “It’s a bug that you could rank highly in Google without buying ads, and Google is trying to fix the bug.” Google Now Ranks No.

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This day in search marketing history: February 3

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To Fight Radicalism In The UK, Google’s Giving Away Free Search Ads 2016: NGOs that promoted anti-radicalization would be able to use $10,000 worth of AdWords credits each month. Super Bowl 2014: How We Searched 2014: Recipes, start time, people. and Skittles. wealth rather than merit).

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This day in search marketing history: January 20

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Matt Cutts sticks a fork in guest blogging In 2014, Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s webspam team, took to his personal blog with a clear message: “Stick a fork in it: guest blogging is done; it’s just gotten too spammy.” ” This wasn’t the first time Google or Cutts had discussed the risks of guest blogging.