SMX® - Search Marketing Expo & Conference series
Nebo Agency, iProspect Score Multiple Wins At 2015 Landy Awards
Inaugural Search Engine Land event honors the best in search marketing, raises $15,000 for two charities.
Matt McGee joined Third Door Media as a writer/reporter/editor in September 2008. He served as Editor-In-Chief from January 2013 until his departure in July 2017. He can be found on Twitter at @MattMcGee.
SMX® - Search Marketing Expo & Conference series
Inaugural Search Engine Land event honors the best in search marketing, raises $15,000 for two charities.
Matt McGee | Oct 1, 2015 at 8:00 am ETDana Lookadoo died Monday after a long battle with injuries she suffered in a November 2013 cycling accident.
Matt McGee | Sep 18, 2015 at 3:47 am ETIn a video hangout Monday with Bruce Clay, Google's Gary Illyes discussed the HTTPS ranking boost and the latest on the Panda and Penguin filters.
Matt McGee | Sep 15, 2015 at 2:28 pm ETHaving done pretty well with predictions for basketball, tennis and soccer, Bing turns its prediction engine loose on the upcoming NFL season.
Matt McGee | Aug 31, 2015 at 4:17 pm ETIn a first-of-its-kind partnership, Bing and the Seahawks will offer season tickets, travel and tickets to a road game, autographed gear and more.
Matt McGee | Aug 4, 2015 at 3:30 pm ETTo focus on "core business strategy," Bing will stop gathering its own mapping imagery and instead license data from third parties.
Matt McGee | Jun 29, 2015 at 6:10 pm ETYahoo hopes to repeat the success of last year's Mozilla Firefox partnership, which grew its search share in the U.S.
Matt McGee | Jun 26, 2015 at 2:55 pm ETMore visuals, richer content and quicker access to do things highlight Yahoo's upgrade to its mobile browser search results page.
Matt McGee | Jun 25, 2015 at 4:11 pm ETIf passed, law would place burden on search engines to locate information online that individuals, including public figures, want removed.
Matt McGee | Jun 18, 2015 at 7:13 am ETCompany will first try to contact businesses that haven't logged in within six months, then may unverify if there's no response.
Matt McGee | Jun 4, 2015 at 4:41 pm ETDanny Sullivan, Ginny Marvin speak with the head of Google search ads.
Matt McGee | Jun 3, 2015 at 11:57 am ETGoogle Webmaster Trends Analysts Gary Illyes speaks with Search Engine Land founding editor Danny Sullivan to close day one of SMX Advanced.
Matt McGee | Jun 2, 2015 at 7:45 pm ETGoogle Now, the company's predictive search product, is getting smarter and expanding to work in mobile browsers and apps that Google is indexing.
Matt McGee | May 28, 2015 at 2:11 pm ETWill Google demote highly-trusted content that's not mobile friendly, replacing it with less-trusted content that looks good on a smartphone?
Matt McGee | Apr 20, 2015 at 6:35 pm ETSome Flickr users should be seeing a new search interface that’s described on the site as a “beta” and offers faster access to more content across Flickr. Yahoo’s communications team declined to say how many users are opted in, but did give us this statement confirming the test: We’re constantly iterating and experimenting to bring […]
Matt McGee | Apr 14, 2015 at 9:09 am ETAgency dashboard offers local listing management, sharing with clients, features for chain businesses and more.
Matt McGee | Apr 9, 2015 at 4:48 pm ETQuiet for nearly two years, Blekko's home page says its team and technology are now part of IBM's Watson technology.
Matt McGee | Mar 27, 2015 at 7:35 pm ETSearch results include complete men's college basketball tournament bracket, along with Bing's game-by-game predictions.
Matt McGee | Mar 16, 2015 at 3:08 am ETA new message above Google's search results is the most visible attempt yet at getting Firefox users to switch back to Google.
Matt McGee | Mar 13, 2015 at 1:53 am ETBing will turn its predictive science smarts toward the unpredictable college basketball tournament.
Matt McGee | Mar 10, 2015 at 1:32 pm ETBing already has close to 100 user-submitted ideas to improve its search engine. Will it act on any of them?
Matt McGee | Mar 5, 2015 at 2:41 pm ETWill Google someday rank web pages based on how accurate they are? A new paper suggests they might.
Matt McGee | Mar 3, 2015 at 8:45 am ETBing's search results include original content and almost anything a fan would need to know before the game starts.
Matt McGee | Jan 30, 2015 at 2:56 pm ETApplications are now being accepted for a new, full-time position on our growing editorial team!
Matt McGee | Jan 30, 2015 at 1:01 pm ETRecent image updates show University of Phoenix Stadium being prepped for Sunday's Super Bowl.
Matt McGee | Jan 28, 2015 at 3:07 pm ETOutage seems to have hit around 2:30 pm ET.
Matt McGee | Jan 2, 2015 at 4:35 pm ETWe begin two weeks of year-in-review articles with a look at the most popular news stories we covered in 2014.
Matt McGee | Dec 22, 2014 at 9:00 am ETGoogle saw its share of the US search market drop slightly in October, while both Bing and Yahoo saw corresponding gains. That’s according to comScore’s October 2014 search engine rankings. ComScore estimates Google’s US market share at an even 67 percent for October, down from 67.3 percent in September. Yahoo was up the same 0.3 […]
Matt McGee | Nov 21, 2014 at 2:47 pm ETYears after a controversy over a decision to promote its own social network, Google+, in search results, Google has begun linking to other social networks in its Knowledge Graph. As first spotted by Bernd Rubel and reported by Search Engine Roundtable, Google is now showing icons for social sites including Facebook, Twitter and even MySpace […]
Matt McGee | Nov 18, 2014 at 5:35 pm ETMicrosoft’s Director of Search admitted this week that Bing isn’t likely to put a significant dent in Google’s search market share. Stefan Weitz appeared Tuesday at the Web Summit conference in Ireland, where he told attendees that Bing instead wants to focus on making its search technology an important part of mobile apps and other […]
Matt McGee | Nov 6, 2014 at 4:27 pm ETAlthough there was little guidance on how to handle “Right To Be Forgotten” (RTBF) requests, Google’s PR Chief in Europe says the company acted quickly to process those requests and remove some URLs out of a fear of being sued. Peter Barron, the head of Google’s European communications, told a packed session today at the […]
Matt McGee | Nov 5, 2014 at 1:45 pm ETBelow is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Tune Your Paid Search Campaigns To Account For Holiday Volatility The relationship between bids and conversions is like that between ice cream sundaes and maraschino cherries. It’s theoretically possible to have […]
Matt McGee | Oct 16, 2014 at 4:59 pm ETWhen it comes to telling search engines about the content on a website, webmasters might be wondering if they should submit sitemaps or just setup RSS or Atom feeds. Google’s answer? Use both. In a new blog post sharing advice on XML sitemaps and RSS/Atom feeds, Google says it’s not an either/or question. For optimal […]
Matt McGee | Oct 16, 2014 at 2:19 pm ETDespite Google apparently dropping two of its domains this week, TopSEOs denies that it has been banned and says it’s in contact with Google to discuss the situation. On Wednesday, Mark Jackson at Vizion Interactive posted that TopSEOs had been deindexed in Google’s search results. Sure enough, Google searches that day for site:topseos.com returned no […]
Matt McGee | Oct 10, 2014 at 4:47 pm ETBelow is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Nixed 4,143 Links To YouTube, Groups Under “RTBF” On the heels of our earlier discussion of search-index removal requests under the “Right to Be Forgotten” (RTBF) in Europe, stories came […]
Matt McGee | Oct 10, 2014 at 4:21 pm ETBelow is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: U.S. Search Award Winners Announced The second-annual U.S. Search Awards were handed out last night during Pubcon Las Vegas. The awards were presented to agencies and individuals for outstanding achievements in […]
Matt McGee | Oct 9, 2014 at 5:06 pm ETConversational search on Google’s mobile apps got an upgrade today, as the company announced a few new voice commands that are specific to travel planning. Basically, the app is smarter about knowing where you are (at a hotel, for example), letting you complete actions by voice (i.e., making reservations via OpenTable), getting directions as part […]
Matt McGee | Oct 9, 2014 at 3:09 pm ETWhile SEOs debate Google’s recent addition of structured data in its search results, Bing is making a similar — and perhaps more significant — change to its search results: Full song lyrics are now showing on Bing’s search results page in the US, and Bing says it plans to expand this outside the US in […]
Matt McGee | Oct 3, 2014 at 3:01 pm ETUdi Manber, a longtime Google search executive, has been shifted over to YouTube where he’ll lead search efforts on Google’s super-popular video sharing/viewing website. The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal in an article about executive changes at YouTube. A Google spokesperson confirmed Manber’s move with us, saying via email: I can […]
Matt McGee | Sep 29, 2014 at 10:01 am ETBelow is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: In The EU, Lots Of People Are Asking Google To Forget Content That They Authored Here’s one from the “shaking my head” department: If you assumed that all of the “Right […]
Matt McGee | Sep 25, 2014 at 4:57 pm ET