2012 Yahoo! Year In Review: Over 500 Top Searches In 50+ Categories
Last year, Yahoo! celebrated ten years of sharing its annual Year In Review feature, marking the occasion by releasing 30 categories of the most...
Elisabeth Osmeloski
Elisabeth Osmeloski was Director of Audience Development for Search Engine Land and Marketing Land. She was responsible for increasing readership through owned, earned and paid media channels. In addition, she assists in programming sessions at Third Door Media's Search Marketing Expo conference series and manages speaking engagements for editorial staff. Follow her on Twitter @elisabethos.
The Big Ask Of 2012: Do You Search For Team Kstew Or Rpatz?
Ask.com’s 100 million users remain almost as loyal as Twihards, prompting us to ask if searchers are on Team Jeeves or Team Diller when putting...
Bing On The Top Search Trends For 2012: Kardashian, Bieber & Gangnam Style
Oh baby, baby, baby oh… Sorry Biebs, you better believe you just got Kanye’d off the top searched celeb spot by Kim Kardashian. Ouch. But...
Search Convergence In SF: Matt Cutts, Danny Sullivan, Mike Grehan & Brett Tabke
It might be more than foggy in San Francisco this morning, as Brett Tabke of webmasterworld.com said after I took this picture, “that was a...
Q4 Reports: Search Advertising Growing In Efficiency
Four reports released this month by paid search giants Efficient Frontier, IgnitionOne, Marin Software and Covario all pointed to an...
Do Your 2012 Resolutions Include Increasing Conversion Rates?
That’s a trick question. Of course the answer should always be yes. Hopefully your website conversions in 2011 have already resulted in a...
The Most ‘Liked’ Search & Social Posts Of 2011
The social media experts who write for this column week in and week out don’t just talk – they walk the walk in social media and search...
It’s All About Data: Our Most Popular Analytics Posts In 2011
You know how some people always tend to put ‘analytical thinking’ skills down on a resume, even if it’s not 100% accurate? Luckily,...
The Most Popular SEO Posts Of 2011
If there’s one thing anyone can say about the state of search engine optimization (SEO) in 2011, it’s that this year certainly...
2011 Yahoo! In Review: Top US Searches In 30 Categories
Now celebrating a decade of recapping annual search trends, earlier today, Yahoo! released the 2011 list of most popular searches in the US in 30...
AOL In 2011: Charlie Sheen #Winning Over Other Celebrities
AOL announced its most popular global searches (United States, United Kingdom and Canada) in 2011 at http://hot.aol.com. While other search engines...
Searching For Answers On Ask.com In 2011
It’s been about a year since Ask went back to its roots as a full Q&A site and at the end of last year, we offered up its most popular...
Bieber Tops Bing’s List Of Most Popular Searches In 2011
First out of the gate this year in the annual rush to declare search winners is Bing, who earlier today unveiled the top searches of 2011 at...
Dexter Dings SEO: Why Do Hollywood Writers Keep Giving Search Engine Optimization A Bad Name?
Yesterday, I saw a few tweets go by noting that the popular show Dexter on Showtime mentioned SEO and said that “Google was so 5 minutes...
Santorum & Google’s Search Quality Czar Matt Cutts Makes The Colbert Report
The search industry is getting a little more mainstream recognition every day, as tonight’s episode of The Colbert Report picked on...
Oyster.com Adds Hotel Search By Image Feature
Today, Oyster.com, a hotel review site and booking engine rolled out “Oyster Shots”, a new search by hotel photos feature, following a...
New Google Mobile Features: Shortcut Local Icons, Query Builder
At today’s Google Inside Search event in San Francisco, a number of new features were unveiled for both mobile and desktop search, which...
Roundup: Key Analytics Takeaways From SMX Advanced
At this week’s SMX Advanced show, several sessions touched on a variety of advanced analytics theories and tactical tools to measure the impact...
The Oprah Effect On User Search Behavior
Last week, in honor of the ubiquitous daytime talk show wrapping after 25 years of production, Yahoo released some search stats as the buzz leading...
Zuckerberg In Zion: Speaks To Senator Hatch, Students At BYU
You might wonder what in the world could bring the Harvard dropout and under-30 founder of Facebook together with the 77-year-old conservative...