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Google’s New ‘Secret Weapon’ is a Simple Hyperlink

Quietly, and without much fanfare, Google services are becoming more ‘open’ through the power of hyperlinks.  By ‘open’, I mean substantially useful without signing up for them, in some cases without even installing them or even without being logged in to Google at all. To understand what I mean by this, let’s first take a step back,

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Beam Me Up, Scotty, There's No Google Authorship Down Here

Google Authorship & the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

  “Beam me up, Scotty. There’s no intelligent life down here.” – Bumper Sticker Slogan Much has been written, including by me, about the death of Google Authorship. For those of us who embraced it, there are inevitable feelings of disappointment about its removal. Some webmasters are rushing to remove the code, which in some

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Google Authorship Nostalgia

Google Authorship, Structured Data, and the Future of Search

This past Thursday, August 28th, 2014, Google’s John Mueller, in a Google+ Post, announced the end of support for Authorship Markup in Google Search. For those unfamiliar with the concept, a brief analysis. Google Authorship in a Nutshell Google Authorship is based on a bit of web code known as rel=”author”. rel=”author” is a microformat

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