Facebook Launches Events Discovery To Help iOS Users Find Nearby Events
The new mobile feature, available for people in 10 major US cities, is the leading edge of Facebook's effort to improve the Events product.
Martin Beck is Third Door Media's Social Media Reporter, covering the latest news for Marketing Land and Search Engine Land. He spent 24 years with the Los Angeles Times, serving as social media and reader engagement editor from 2010-2014. A graduate of UC Irvine and the University of Missouri journalism school, Beck started started his career at the Times as a sportswriter and copy editor. Follow Martin on Twitter (@MartinBeck), Facebook and/or Google+.
Is “Facebook Professional Services” Facebook’s Stealth Project To Beat Yelp?
Unannounced desktop-only feature gives people the ability to find the highest-rated businesses in a given area.
Pinterest Aims Internationally With Localized Search Update
Company is serving customized search results for French, German, Portuguese and Japanese users.
Apple
Look Out Siri, Google Now & Cortana, Facebook M Wants To Be Your Digital Assistant
The social network is experimenting with a service within Messenger that it believes will make better recommendations than its rivals. M will even complete tasks for people.
Bing
Is Bing Trolling Google & Alphabet With ABC.WTF Redirect?
Google's name change/reorganization prompts a witty response from Redmond.
Bing
US Desktop Search Rankings Hold Steady; Google Maintains 64% Share
Google and Ask each drop 1/10 of a percentage point in comScore's monthly rankings of the domestic search market.
New: Google Lets You Bookmark Local Places From Search Results
Clicking on the star icon adjacent to a place name in local box saves the location to Maps and directions suggestions.
Apple
Twitter’s Full Google Search Integration Is Coming In May
Twitter CEO doesn't offer a specific date or details. He also says that Twitter is working with Apple to add Twitter content to Spotlight search on iOS and OS X.
Facebook Post Search Is Finally Coming To Android Devices
Facebook's updated search product was launched for iOS, web and mobile web in December. It's still only available for users of the U.S. English language setting.
Google Gives Businesses More Photo Control With My Business Upgrade
New photo section includes the ability to choose between profile, logo and cover images as display for maps and search.
Google Mobile Search Put Publishers’ Content In Carousels
Now users can quickly scan topic-based content from single sources on mobile devices.
Report: Google Will Get Access To Twitter’s Firehose Again
The agreement, reported by Bloomberg Business, comes 3 1/2 years after a similar arrangement ended. It will make tweets easier to find on the search giant.
Pinterest Search Is Now Customized By Gender
Aiming to attract more men to its social bookmarking network, the company is serving different search results for males and females.
Facebook Drops Bing From Facebook Search Results
The end to a long relationship with Microsoft search is another signal that Facebook is concentrating on serving connections within its network.
Facebook Search Finally Lets You Search For Posts Again
More than a year after promising to give users the ability to search for posts, Facebook is finally coming through. The company today announced an update to Facebook Search that will make it possible to find that thread congratulating you on your new job, the hilarious comment you made about Walking Dead last month or […]
Social
Twitter Search Now Indexes Every Public Tweet
Twitter history will soon be more accessible. The company announced today that it is giving users the ability to search within the full archive of public tweets. From a blog post by Twitter search infrastructure engineer Yi Zhuang: Since that first simple Tweet over eight years ago, hundreds of billions of Tweets have captured everyday […]
Pinterest SEO: 7 Tips From A Pinterest Engineer [#SMX]
It’s not hard to make the case that Pinterest is a perfect social network for marketers, and Tailwind CEO Daniel Maloney hit upon the crux of the matter during a session this week at SMX East in New York. Twitter, he said, is mostly about what I’m doing; Facebook is about who I am; Pinterest […]
Bug Causes Some Google+ Elements To Drop From Brand Boxes [UPDATED]
Some Google+ elements have disappeared from Knowledge Graph boxes that appear in Google search for some brands, but Google says this is a bug that’s being fixed. The bug only impacts the Knowledge Graph box appearing on the right side of the search results page. If the brand has a Google+ page, then some Google+ elements are […]
Bing
Getty Images Sues Microsoft For “Massive Infringement” Of Copyright By Bing Image Widget
It didn’t take long for Bing’s new Image Widget to come under fire for alleged copyright infringement. The feature, which enables online publishers to display photos pulled in by the Bing search engine, rolled out Aug. 22. Today, Getty Images filed suit in a New York federal court claiming that it’s a “massive infringement” of […]
Facebook Tests Searching By Keyword In Mobile Apps
Eventually Facebook will bring Graph Search to mobile devices. At least Mark Zuckerberg says so. In January, he said it would be coming “pretty soon”. Facebook is staying quiet about any timetable, but now and then tests leak into public. In June, it was a test for mobile web users. This week, it’s a test […]