China Cuts Access To Google Search & Other Google Properties

Many are reporting that China has blocked access to Gmail, as well as other Google properties.
Google Search has been severally impacted by the Chinese in this latest censorship attempt. If you check Google’s transparency report specifically for Web search access within China, you will see that traffic for that property is about half the normal usage since after December 25th.

http://searchengineland.com/china-cuts-access-google-search-google-properties-211981

Google Pigeon Update Rolls Out To UK, Canada & Australia

Google's new local ranking algorithm that launched in the US earlier this year has rolled out to the UK, Canada and Australia.

 This rollout happened late last week, and may indeed impact local shopping traffic for many merchants in the UK, Canada or Australia. Which again is surprising to us that they have not held this update until after the holiday shopping season. 

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