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August 24, 2011 in
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I’ve mentioned two weeks ago that Google started to label pages that include search results. For some of these pages, Google’s snippets now use lists, so you can distinguish between separate items. These snippets are twice as big as the regular snippets (4 lines vs 2 lines) and they include useful information like prices or…
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August 22, 2011 in
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Last week, Google announced a new flavor of rich snippets, this time for music pages. At that time, I couldn’t see the new snippets, but now they should be available for everyone. “With this new feature, site owners can mark up their pages using the newly created music markup spec on schema.org, and search results…
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August 19, 2011 in
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I mentioned in the previous post that Google tests a less cluttered interface and there’s now a way to try it. Techno-Net noticed that you can change the NID value of a Google cookie and get the same interface. Here’s how to do this in Chrome: 1. Install “Edit this Cookie“, a cookie manager for…
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August 18, 2011 in
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Google started to test a variation of the search interface I mentioned the last month. The experimental interface removes all the icons from the sidebar and the icons for Google +1 and Instant Preview, which are displayed next to the results. When you mouse over a search result, Google shows a bigger Instant Preview icon…
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August 18, 2011 in
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Google added a new feature to the dictionary OneBox: audio pronunciation. This feature was available if you clicked “More” to read all the definitions, but now it’s more accessible. Google uses Flash to play the audio file, so the feature doesn’t work if you disable Flash. It’s interesting that Google shows the audio icon if…
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