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Facebook expanded the possibilities of visual search in social networks using their platform of computer vision Lumos. Now users can search for photos using key words describing their content.

Google announced ending support for Chrome version 53 and below in e-mail service Gmail. The change will affect users of Windows XP and Vist, as the latest version of the browser with support for these operating systems became the 49th.

English-speaking users have noticed that Google has a new way to refine search results – carousel filters in the top of search results.

Google is testing a new format for local SERP. In the experiment, Google includes one ad and two organic result instead of three as previously.

At the end of last week, Google may have updated its algorithms against link spam. About it writes Search Engine Land, citing the reports of the foreign webmasters.

Google closes the service test contactless payments Hands Free. This was reported on the website of the project.

The English-language industry experts noticed that Google is testing a new block on the local panel of knowledge networks in SERP. Users of the service My business can place in the block information about discounts and promotions.

Last week Google Adwords started testing adding text ads to the accounts of the advertisers. The pilot program is called Added by AdWords. It started on January 26.

Google updated the structured data testing tool. Google adding to tool previews. Now webmasters will be able to immediately see how the template will look like in search results.

Google has addressed in arbitration court with the complaint against the Russian Vitaly Popov, who owns a domain ɢoogle.com.