Google Nest – Google home automation and security products, including the Nest thermostat. Google Maps – A great feature that enables users to search for directions from one location to another, search for local businesses, and more. Google Docs – A fantastic free solution from Google that allows you to create documents, open Microsoft Word documents, and share your documents with other users that have Internet access. Google App Engine – A service that provides users the ability to create scalable web services that use Google’s resources. Google Ads – Formerly known as Google AdWords, Google Ads is a service that enables users to pay to advertise on the Google search engine and other websites using Google AdSense. What helps Google stand out from its competition, helps it continue to grow, and be the number one search engine is its PageRank technique that sorts search results.

Google published their monthly (bi-monthly?) list of search highlights. The 65 updates for August and September included 7-result SERPs, Knowledge Graph expansion, updates to how “page quality” is calculated, and changes to how local results are determined. After suggesting the next Penguin update would be major, Google released a minor Penguin data update, impacting “0.3% of queries”.

As part of their monthly update, Google mentioned code-name “Venice”. This local update appeared to more aggressively localize organic results and more tightly integrate local search data. This wasn’t an algorithm update, but Google published a rare peek into a search quality meeting.

Google published a second set of “search quality highlights” at the end of the month, claiming more than 40 changes in February. Notable changes included multiple image-search updates, multiple freshness updates , and a Panda update. Google posted another batch of update highlights, covering 50 changes in March. These included confirmation of Panda 3.4, changes to anchor-text “scoring”, updates to image search, and changes to how queries with local intent are interpreted. After a number of webmasters reported ranking shuffles, Google confirmed that a data error had caused some domains to be mistakenly treated as parked domains . Google rolled out its first targeted data update after the “Penguin” algorithm update.

However, Pixel 6 and 6 Pro owners that are fully updated cannot install it at the moment. Google, meanwhile, plans to release one more Android 12L build in March. Friday’s best deals on Android games and apps are now up for the taking courtesy of Google Play. Just make sure you scope out the launch deals on Samsung’s Galaxy S22/+/Ultra handsets and its Galaxy Tab S8/+ while you’re at it. Today’s Android app deals are headlined by titles like Unbroken Soul, AntiGravity Puzzle Game, Data Defense, Mortal Crusade, and more.

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