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Foursquare has added new search filters that allow Android and iOS users to make “super-specific” searches, filtering by price, locations where users have or haven’t checked in before, locations ‘friends have checked in’, if a location is ‘open now’, and if.
According to a just-published Bloomberg report Google is preparing a bid for Waze. Earlier this month rumors indicating Facebook was in late-stage acquisition talks with Waze for roughly $1 billion appeared online.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web.
Google’s fourth Penguin update — what the company is calling Penguin 2.0 — hit last night, and less than 24 hours later we’re already getting a first chance to look at what sites might be considered “losers” in terms of search visibility.
Google now lets you search your private photos and the photos your friends on Google+ share with you.
I’m not sure anyone would notice in all of the Google Penguin news and discussion, but Yahoo appears to be testing a new search results page.
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Bing announced they have added a new visual way to consume news on Bing News. Now, for searches on notable people, Bing will return an image carousel at the top.
Google’s next generation Penguin update is now live and webmasters and SEOs are carefully assessing how this update has impacted their web sites.
Last month I showed you three tricks I use when gathering data on websites. I used these techniques to download web pages into a local folder.