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The Bing Search Experience: A Practice In Italian Renaissance Art & User Perspective
A conversation with Emma Williams, Bing's lead designer and Executive General...
Re-imagining Google: America’s Favorite Homepage Gets A Redesign By Letter Society Blog
Early last month, the design blog Letter Society posted a challenge asking its select group of designers to submit redesigns of Google.com. The...
More April Fools: Everything From Tools To Make Your Video Viral To Free Nexus Phones
Yesterday, our editor in chief Matt McGee found a number of Google April Fools jokes already in play, including a Google Maps Pokemon challenge...
Google’s April Fools’ Day Jokes For 2014: Google Maps Pokémon Challenge, Magic Hand & More
Is it just me, or does it seem like Google starts celebrating April Fools’ Day earlier and earlier every year? No company on the web...
Google Penalizes Italian & Spanish Link Networks
As promised, Google has taken manual action to penalize link networks in Italy and Spain. It was just four days ago that Google warned...
Welcome Martin Beck, Who Joins Third Door Media From The Los Angeles Times
We’ve grown again! Third Door Media, the company that produces Search Engine Land and Marketing Land, is excited to welcome Martin Beck to...
Ray Kurzweil’s Job At Google: Beat IBM’s Watson At Natural Language Search
If Ray Kurzweil is right, computers will be smarter than humans 15 years from now. It’s called “technological singularity” and...
Googling The Weather: From 20% Project To Sophisticated Query Analysis
Millions of us have asked Google to play weatherperson. In order to get an answer to one of our oldest and most basic questions, we type a...
With Nadella’s Appointment, The “Search CEOs” Now Run Google, Yahoo & Microsoft
Satya Nadella being named CEO of Microsoft isn’t just big news for Microsoft. It’s big news for search. For the first time in ages,...
Thousands Of Hotel Listings Were Hijacked In Google+ Local
Thousands of hotels listed within Google+ Local appear to have had links leading to their official sites “hijacked” and replaced...
Brand Bias: 70% Of Consumers Look For Known Retailers When Doing Product Searches
New research from Search Engine Land and SurveyMonkey shows that consumers have a definite brand bias when it comes to searching for products...
Bing(ing) It On At A Seattle Seahawks Football Game [Photos]
I’m not sure why I was surprised to see a small army of uniformed Bing reps standing around a big booth before the Seattle Seahawks game...
Lily Collins: 2013’s Most Dangerous Celebrity To Search For
Move over Emma Watson. Actress Lily Collins has taken the title as 2013’s most dangerous celebrity to search for online. McAfee, the...
Bing Gains New Logo, UI, Page Zero Links, Snapshot & Pole Position Answers
This evening, Microsoft announced and has started to roll out a range of new features for Bing — some cosmetic, some more structural....
Google Scientist: We Want To Be Able To Respond To A Query Like “Book Me A Trip To Washington, DC”
Will the day come that Google can successfully respond when you tell it something like, “Book me a trip to Washington, DC” —...
50 Percent Of Companies Struggling With SEO Aren’t Integrating Social Media [Survey]
What’s one key difference between companies that are successful with SEO and those that aren’t? According to a new study from...
Infographic: The Matt Cutts Debunking Flowchart
Officially, Google distinguished engineer Matt Cutts heads Google’s web spam fighting team. Unofficially, he’s Google’s chief debunker. If...
Take Our Survey & Help Update The Periodic Table Of SEO
The only constant in search is change. The Periodic Table of SEO was created in 2011 to summarize the major factors that comprise search engine...
Bing’s April Fools’ Jokes Include A Slam On Google & A New SEO Tag
Bing is hopping on the April Fools’ Day joke bandwagon later than Google and even Wolfram Alpha, but it’s taking a swing at Google...
Google’s April Fools’ Day 2013 Joke-A-Thon: YouTube Shutdown, Google Nose & More
April Fool’s Day is pretty much like a national … err, international holiday for everyone that works for Google. It seems that...
