Google Artificially Creating Author Names For Some Search Snippets

Lily Ray shared on Twitter some examples of Google making up artificial author names to attach to some of its search results snippets. She showed some named such as ALP Dull, R Wine, W Wine, and other names that are being pulled from the content somewhere but are not real names.

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Google Search Jumplinks / Sitelinks With Emojis

Google is now showing emojis in the search result snippets jumplinks (sometimes sitelinks although these are not sitelinks) section of the search result snippet. This was spotted by Brian Freiesleben and posted on Twitter and I can replicate it both on desktop and mobile search.

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Google: Internationalized Sites Even With Same English Content Not Duplicate Content

Let's say you have multiple international sites, ccTLDs, with your business registered with a .com for the US, .fr for France, .de for Germany and so on. But you have not translated all of those sites into its local language, and some or many of those pages have the same English language you find on the .com version. Google says that is not duplicate content.

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Google Search Tests Super Wide Image Results Box

Google is testing a incredibly wide image results box in its web search results interface. So instead of the image results box fitting tightly underneath the search box, it expands out to the extent of your browser window.

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Google Shovel

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Twitter Announces Way to Make Money Called Tip Jar via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Twitter takes first steps toward becoming a content platform by allowing journalists, creators and others to receive tips from their followers

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Google Advanced Search Operators for Competitive Content Research

Without an organizing principle, a spreadsheet full of keywords is a bottomless to-do list. It’s not enough to know what your competitors are ranking for — you need to know what content is powering those rankings and how you’re currently competing with that content. Enter advanced search operators.

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