Six or so months ago, it used be easier to get on the homepage of Digg. Lately, sites have been having problems. Most of these troubled sites are usually about online marketing or other business-related topics. It seems that users are burying these stories for no apparent reason. A buried story dies with no chance […]
Neil Patel created a new flash game named Search Engine Smackdown. The players consist of Larry & Sergey of Google, Jerry & David of Yahoo and Bill & Paul of Microsoft. You pick one player you would like to represent and then you can compete against the other players. You are asked a series of […]
Yahoo has been getting good press (often at Google’s expense) for its wide release of oneSearch, a mix of structured and unstructured data in search results intended to deliver “answers” rather than links. Last night Yahoo made several more mobile announcements. Danny covered them here earlier today. Google, appearing to respond to oneSearch and other […]
Call me Mr. Rain On The Parade, but after reading an interview in The Guardian with Google product manager of crawl services Dan Crow, I can’t help but feel people are going to come away with the mistaken idea that Google will magically make their Flash content suddenly more accessible to Google’s crawlers. That ain’t […]
Hello! My name is Alan Rimm-Kaufman. I’m honored to be contributing a monthly column on paid search for Search Engine Land. The column will appear the third Tuesday of each month. My focus will be strategy, economics, and multi-channel. About me: I run a paid search agency based in Charlottesville, Virginia. We serve about 100 […]
Guide On HowTo Get Your Business Listed On Major Local Search Engines, Yellow Pages Sites and Social Local Networks from LocalType.com is a very comprehensive rundown to almost 50 places where you can submit your business for local inclusion. It is broken into three categories: local search engines such as Yahoo Local, Google Maps and […]
The wisdom of orkut from the Official Google Blog covers how Google’s social networking site Orkut now allows people to post polls. No big deal? Perhaps not. But it also makes me wonder if it’s a first step toward trying to give Orkut an answer search roll for Google.
Yahoo has launched a new Yahoo Mobile Publisher Services site designed to offer one-stop shopping for publishers that want to get mobile content into Yahoo in various ways. In particular, the services offered will be:
Since I’ve been absent a while (sorry Danny, Chris, and Barry), thought I should first catch everyone up on management changes at the shopping comparison engines.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
I’ve written previously about Google Custom Search Engines. These vertical Googlettes let anyone create a search engine with results based on Google’s index, with an added layer of human editorial selection. Put more simply, you create a Google CSE; you select the sites you want in it, and then you let anyone search your CSE from […]
Neil Patel challenged Jason Calacanis, who said last month that SEO is bull, that SEO can improve traffic to his site. Jason accepted the challenge and the early results have now been posted. Neil shows that by making “white hat” recommendation, he has increased Jason’s search traffic by 21 percent. Note that Neil also said […]
In January, Google announced a contest in which US and Canadian students were invited to generate their college campuses in 3D, using Google Sketchup. A few individuals or teams whose works are judged to be the best will be flown to Google headquarters in Mountain View for a special workshop with 3D modelling experts in […]
UK yellow pages publisher and local search purveyor, Yell.com announced that it launched PPC ads on its site as well as targeted banner inventory. Yell owns U.S. yellow pages publisher Yellow Book USA. One of the more innovative print yellow pages publishers, Yell also offers mobile, enhanced mapping, vertical guides and e-commerce.
Garett Rogers at Googling Google has reported that a search on Google Maps for microsoft has returned an anti-Microsoft image within the Microsoft listing, as shown to the left. The image was originally on a Yelp.com page and automatically inserted into the Google Maps result. It appears to now have been removed, but Garett has […]
Google canvasses for political ads at the LA Times reports that Google gave a seminar at the annual conference for political consultants and internet activists run by George Washington University. The seminar, “Making the Most of Google in 2008,” saw Google advising how groups can use Google services to promote their agendas.
The Microsoft Live.com link command operator is currently offline and has been offline since yesterday morning. Kevin Gibbons reported yesterday that a link:https://www.msn.com returns a blank page. I
ZipLocal is a new, consolidated “Web 2.0” local search destination growing out of a number of earlier local search sites including Zip411.net and redToronto.com, among them. Here’s an example results page for “Sushi , Toronto.” The site has many Ajax features and offers send to mobile, as well as the capacity to email listed businesses. […]
It appears we have more sightings of Google experimenting with additional navigational link placement ideas. These are links that let you reach various Google search services beyond web search.
Yahoo Removes Category (Directory) Links From Under Search Results at Search Engine Roundtable reports that Yahoo has removed the links from the individual search listings to the Yahoo Directory.
Earlier this month, Travelocity’s chief marketing officer Jeffrey Glueck generated a bit of a stir in the search marketing world after giving a speech saying his company found only 4 percent of non-branded search terms brought in bookings. Problem is, Glueck now says those figures weren’t reported correctly. As it turns out, nearly 25 percent […]
How many U.S. small businesses have websites? Is it 30%, 40%, 50%? Answering that question gets quickly into debates over the definition of a “website.” For example, is a “landing page” or a “profile page” a website? Do the small business data provided by InfoUSA, Axciom, Localeze, TruelLocal (and now iBegin Source) constitute being online? […]
TimeSearch is an interestingly different search engine, since the focus is just on time, as one may expect from the name. It’s the brainchild of Bamber Gascoigne, (a well known British television presenter of historical programmes and academic quiz shows) and HistoryWorld. The search options are fairly limited – to geographic areas of the world, […]
Just a quick reminder for our SearchCap newsletter readers and anyone who visits Search Engine Land. Our first Search Marketing Expo event, SMX Advanced, happens in Seattle this June 4 and 5. We hope you’ll be attending. If so, register before April 2 to save on getting a ticket! The show is aimed at intermediate-to-advanced […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Now having covered the latest search popularity figures from Hitwise and Nielsen//NetRatings, it’s time to look at those out from comScore. It’s mostly the same old news — Google up a bit, everyone else holding steady. Here are the figures, which cover the percentage of home, work and university searches done in the US for […]
Earlier I wrote of the latest search popularity stats out from Hitwise and said those from other companies would be coming. Next up, Nielsen//NetRatings. The most recent figures out (PDF format) for February 2007 from NetRatings show a significant Google gain at Yahoo’s expense. Live.com also shows a notable gain. But the figures also show […]
As humans, we have a limited capacity to consider our alternatives. Within our brains, there is a limited amount of shelf space available for us to temporarily put our options on to examine them and make our decision. We have cognitive limits to the amount of information we can process at any given time. When […]
Google has added support for its KML (Earth) format and the open GeoRSS format to the Google Maps API.
Belgian company loses lawsuit against Google from IT World reports that Google has won a suit brought against them by ServersCheck, a Belgian company. The company complained that the Google Suggest feature was helping people find pirated versions of its software.
I’ve been traveling the past three days so am catching up on news — including that of the new supposed YouTube-killer being launched by NBC Universal & News Corp. But while the official release calls this a new "site" coming later this year, more reading makes it clear we’re talking about a video distribution network […]
Google Operating System reports that Google is testing a new interface for how they currently display the navigation links at Google.com. Google moved the links that used to be directly above the search box to the very top of the page:
Viacom Sued Over YouTube Parody Removal from the Associated Press reports that Viacom has been sued by several activist groups for allegedly forcing YouTube to remove a video of “The Colbert Report.” But Viacom says it never made such a request. The suit was filed in part by Electronic Frontier Foundation and Stanford Law School’s […]
Google announced that Michael Moritz, a member of Google’s board of directors since May 1999, will not seek re-election.
President Jimmy Carter gave the welcoming remarks for Google Atlanta’s Open House Thursday. President Carter stated that his life has been transformed by Google, and that it would be hard to find many people in the developed world for whom that statement isn’t true. He gave a specific example of researching the Revolutionary War for […]
Question: Why does your website deserve to be #1? Because I have the lowest prices Because I have better customer service Because I’ve been in business longer Because no one does this better than me None of the above The correct answer is:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
News Corp., NBC pull together to challenge YouTube from the LA Times reports that the two media giants are expected to announce a YouTube-like site as early as today. News Corp. and NBC Universal plan to announce as soon as today that they are creating an online video site stocked with TV shows and movies, […]
As Greg noted inYahoo Appoints New Click Quality Czar, Yahoo has come out to say that 12 to 15 percent of their search ad clicks are filtered out due to being fraud, invalid or for other reasons. Reggie Davis, Yahoo’s new Vice President of Marketplace Quality, was clear on saying that these clicks were not […]
Threadwatch spotted that Google has added “related phrases” to the Google definitions feature. For example, a search on define:car shows at the top: Related phrases: car rental cable car trailer on flat car stock car tank car pace car car kit champ car box car racer