Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google loses another senior vice president and world record holder, Alan Eustace.
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Google now offers a mortgage and interest calculator, so you no longer have to go to a financial web site to get the cute web based calculators.
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Over 43 million ads were disabled for using “Trick to Click” ploys.
Are you bleeding money or gaining exposure from showing up multiple times in Google Shopping results? Rebekah Schelfhout shares her thoughts.
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