AT&T Interactive: More Than 30 Percent Of Searches On Network Are Mobile

Apr 18, 2012 at 6:39pm ET by Greg Sterling   

AT&T Interactive released its Q1 2012 “Local Insights Report” (.pdf) earlier today. The report covers search activity on AT&T Interactive’s various properties (online, mobile and IPTV), which together comprise its YP Local Ad Network. The data in the report are gleaned from more than 190 million monthly searches across the network. Below are the overall [...]

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 18, 2012

Apr 18, 2012 at 4:59pm ET by Barry Schwartz   

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 8 Products That Might Be On Yahoo’s Chopping Block Yahoo’s product teams are officially on notice. Shortly after announcing Q1 earnings yesterday, new Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson dropped a bomb during [...]

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 17, 2012

Apr 17, 2012 at 5:09pm ET by Barry Schwartz   

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Yahoo Q1: Revenue Beats Expectations, Search Up 8 Percent A short while ago Yahoo released Q1 earnings, which exceeded financial analysts’ consensus estimates. Total revenue was $1.22 billion, up 1 percent [...]

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Yahoo Q1: Revenue Beats Expectations, Search Up 8 Percent

Apr 17, 2012 at 4:54pm ET by Greg Sterling   

A short while ago Yahoo released Q1 earnings, which exceeded financial analysts’ consensus estimates. Total revenue was $1.22 billion, up 1 percent year-over-year (YoY). Net earnings were $286 million, representing 28 percent YoY growth. Total search revenue was $470 million, up 3 percent vs. last year. Search revenues (ex-TAC) were up 8 percent to $384 [...]

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Microsoft Makes Venue Maps More Visible On Bing

Apr 17, 2012 at 9:49am ET by Greg Sterling   

Microsoft has introduced a number of improvements to Bing Maps, chief among which is making “venue maps” more obvious. Microsoft says there are roughly 900 venue/interior maps on Bing focused primarily on “malls, airports, casinos and shopping districts.” Google has a similar initiative but it’s focused on Google Maps for Android for the time being. [...]

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New: Google Rich Snippet Tool Allows HTML Input & Product Snippets Go Global

Apr 17, 2012 at 8:49am ET by Barry Schwartz   

Google announced two updates to their rich snippets features yesterday. HTML Input For Rich Snippet Testing Tool: The first is they have added to the rich snippets testing a way to input your HTML and test the HTML before you make the HTML live. In the past, you always had to upload your changes and [...]

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 16, 2012

Apr 16, 2012 at 5:01pm ET by Barry Schwartz   

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Foursquare Hits 2 Billion Check-ins, 20 Million Users It’s April 16th … otherwise known in some circles as Foursquare Day. (Get it? 16 is four squared. And April is the fourth [...]

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Google Sent 20,000+ Hacked Notification Messages To Webmasters Today

Apr 16, 2012 at 1:30pm ET by Barry Schwartz   

Google’s head of the webspam team, Matt Cutts, announced on Twitter that they have sent out new message notifications to 20,000 web sites that are hacked. Specifically, Google sent these messages to sites doing “weird redirects.” I’ve personally seen a spike in the number of sites redirecting from their web site to a non-authorized site [...]

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 13, 2012

Apr 13, 2012 at 4:58pm ET by Matt McGee   

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: In Depth: Search Gear For The Titanic Centennial April 15th marks the 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, and there will be no shortage of news coverage (or hype) [...]

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SEM / PPC Jobs Big In New York, Chicago, San Jose, Austin & Seattle

Apr 13, 2012 at 1:45pm ET by Search Engine Land Infographics   

Looking for a job doing SEM / PPC work? As with SEO, New York is the leading city based on job volume. But Chicago takes the second spot, unlike LA which leads second with SEO jobs. San Jose, Austin and Seattle are other leading cities. Those doing paid search earn anywhere from $35,000 to $131,000. The stats [...]

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 12, 2012

Apr 12, 2012 at 5:00pm ET by Barry Schwartz   

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: The 1940 U.S. Census: Soon, A Searcher’s Treasure Trove Big news for genealogists, historians and even for people just curious about their own families: the 1940 U.S. Census is now available [...]

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The 1940 U.S. Census: Soon, A Searcher’s Treasure Trove

Apr 12, 2012 at 4:02pm ET by Gary Price   

Big news for genealogists, historians and even for people just curious about their own families: the 1940 U.S. Census is now available on the web. Unfortunately, at this point at least, it takes a bit of skill and determination to navigate through the data, though there are many efforts underway to make this incredibly valuable [...]

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Bing Search API No Longer Free

Apr 12, 2012 at 1:25pm ET by Barry Schwartz   

Microsoft announced on the Bing Developer Blog that they are transitioning the Bing Search API over to the Windows Azure Marketplace over the next few months, leading to no longer offering a free version of the Bing Search API. API usage costs for the Bing Search API will cost $40 for up to 20,000 queries [...]

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Elevate Your Paid Campaign ROI – Attend SMX Advanced June 5-6

Apr 12, 2012 at 11:53am ET by Search Engine Land   

Recharge your paid search tactics with expert-level PPC sessions at SMX Advanced, June 5-6 in Seattle. These master classes on paid tactics won’t waste your time with basics; SMX Advanced sessions are for experienced search marketers only. Here are the PPC agenda highlights from this year’s agenda. We open with Mad Scientists of Paid Search, [...]

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 11, 2012

Apr 11, 2012 at 4:58pm ET by Barry Schwartz   

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Reports: Google CPCs Continue To Decline And Yahoo/Bing’s Rise While Spend Overall Grows In Q1 By all accounts, paid search spending rose in Q1 2012 as compared to the previous year, [...]

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 10, 2012

Apr 10, 2012 at 5:05pm ET by Barry Schwartz   

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Yelpy Insights: Yelp Adds Two New Search Filters, Looks To Add More Is there a battle brewing in the area of searchable local content and reviews? Foursquare has been making some [...]

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Yelpy Insights: Yelp Adds Two New Search Filters, Looks To Add More

Apr 10, 2012 at 4:28pm ET by Matt McGee   

Is there a battle brewing in the area of searchable local content and reviews? Foursquare has been making some interesting moves in this area, and today Yelp has announced two new search filters that it says will let users more easily find the right local business. Yelp is calling the new technology “Yelpy Insights.” The [...]

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Question Of Whether It’s Legal To Use Trademarks As Keywords Revived On Appeal in Rosetta Stone/Google Case

Apr 9, 2012 at 7:07pm ET by Pamela Parker   

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit today revived part of Rosetta Stone’s trademark lawsuit against Google, meaning the search giant’s permitting the use of trademarked terms in AdWords is still legally questionable in the United States. It’s the first time an appellate court has ruled in a case of this kind. Previously, a [...]

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 9, 2012

Apr 9, 2012 at 5:02pm ET by Matt McGee   

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Consider The Ends To Justify The Means In PPC “En toute chose il faut considérer la fin.” (In everything one must consider the end) – Jean de La Fontaine, 1668 It [...]

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Eadweard J. Muybridge 182nd Birthday Google Logo

Apr 9, 2012 at 9:29am ET by Barry Schwartz   

Google is honoring the 182nd birthday of Eadweard J. Muybridge, the photographer most well known for capturing motion in his works. He in fact created a device named the zoopraxiscope, which was used for projecting motion pictures. Google’s logo represents one film strip almost everyone recognizes from history books, the Galloping horse. Here is a [...]

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