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Google Chrome app for Android received support for WebVR – an API for JavaScript that allows you to ensure compatibility with VR headsets. Now browser users will be able to view online content for virtual reality devices.

Since the launch of PageRank has been more than 18 years, but Google still uses the algorithm in their ranking. This was stated by the representative of the search Gary Illyes on Twitter.

Senior engineer Google Image Search Randy Keller went to work at Pinterest. He took the newly created post of head of team search.

The company Searсhmertrics shared the research results of factors of ranking ecommerce sites in Google. The goal of the analyze was to find out what affects the high position of the online stores in search engine page results.

Google has notified the developers around the world about the upcoming deletion from Google Play those apps that lack a privacy policy. About it reports The Next Web.

Google testing a new way of sending messages about offensive search autocomplete suggestions. Soon such possibility will appear directly under this block:

Google reported that the Converted Clicks rate is will be completely removed from AdWords in March 2017. The exact date the representatives are not stated.

Google scans the content of a page when it sees that the server returns a 404 error. This was stated by the representative of the search John Mueller during the last hangout for webmasters. So to fill these pages with content from the point of view of search engine optimization does not make much sense.

Team research project Google Brain has created a neural network that is able to synthesize on the basis of the source code in a 64 pixel pictures with higher resolution.

Recently English-speaking users have noticed that Google started showing the desktop URL in mobile search results.