Google: Conversational Search
What do Google and a toddler have in common? Both need to learn good listening skills.
Contributor and patent explorer Dave Davies reviews a recently-presented paper that suggests Google is grouping entities and using their...
Driving calls with PPC: 5 mistakes most search marketers make
Most search marketers want the same thing out of their pay-per-click campaigns: driving conversions up and cost per conversion down. Things get...
Voice agents and interfaces will require many new marketing strategies
Marketers are only now getting a glimpse of the many approaches that will be required for the many kinds of voice...
How do you optimize content for a voice-first world?
Want to know how to optimize your content for voice search? Contributor Sherry Bonelli shares how to incorporate smart SEO tactics to increase...
Google Assistant adds new media capabilities ahead of HomePod release
You can now wake up to a favorite playlist and use voice to pick up where you left off with Netflix shows....
Survey: People becoming less inhibited about using voice search in public
Texting is the most common use case for voice, and men use voice search more than women, according to new data from Stone Temple Consulting....
Apple says HomePod is finally coming on February 9, but can it compete?
Apple also said that Siri is now used on more than 500 million...
Google beefs up mobile shopping results for the holidays, adds more product info & buying guides
Google has also released search trends around Black Friday and Cyber Monday-related search...
How machine learning levels the SERP playing field
Contributor Kristopher Jones explains how SEOs should be changing their practices to keep up with trends in the way Google evaluates web pages....
Google announces Assistant app-discovery channels, broad ranking factors
It's early, but Google will soon need to rank Assistant apps, too....
What marketers need to know about Google assistant and Google Home
Voice search is growing, and Google is investing heavily in products that utilize this technology. Contributor Joe Youngblood discusses these...
Google Upgrades Conversational Search On Its Mobile Apps
Conversational search on Google’s mobile apps got an upgrade today, as the company announced a few new voice commands that are specific 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...
The Brave New World of SEO: Beyond Websites
We hear it regularly — the death knell tolling for SEO. In the past several years, we’ve been bombarded by a barrage of change in...
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” —...
Google Voice Search Coming To iOS, Chrome For Android Gets An Update
Google released a couple of new UI features with the latest Chrome update for Android yesterday and announced that voice search will be coming...
Google’s Impressive “Conversational Search” Goes Live On Chrome
The “conversational search” that Google demonstrated at last week’s Google I/O conference is now available to users of its...