Search Features: Enhanced Listings

Examining Real World Uses Of Rich Snippets & Markup

Semantic markup is becoming more and more popular in conjunction with large scale SEO. Adding rich snippets to send rich signals to alert search...

Barbara Starr | Nov 26, 2012 at 3:11 pm ET

An Illustrated Guide To E-Commerce Markup Using GoodRelations

In How Search & Social Engines Are Using Semantic Search, I started this series with an overview. This article will give you a walk through...

Barbara Starr | Oct 11, 2012 at 3:57 pm ET

How Search & Social Engines Are Using Semantic Search

The term “Semantic Search” is certainly not new. However, it has taken on a new dimension and implications in both search and social...

Barbara Starr | Sep 26, 2012 at 4:28 pm ET

Bing Integrates Qwiki Videos Into Search Results

Bing’s search results are getting a bit more interactive with the integration of machine-generated videos from Qwiki. The companies have...

Matt McGee | Jun 12, 2012 at 10:01 am ET

Google Discussion Forum Snippets Now Showing “Top Answers”

Google has expanded the search descriptions to show the “top answer” and sometimes the “question” for discussion forum...

Barry Schwartz | Mar 28, 2012 at 8:53 am ET

MicroData For Marketing Executives

This continues the analysis presented in the MicroData Not Ready For Primetime article previously published. Here, I break down the MicroData...

Mark Sprague | Oct 13, 2011 at 12:09 pm ET

MicroData & Retail Products: Not Ready For Primetime?

If you are in the search engine business, the functionality in the Microdata specification sponsored by Google, Yahoo and Bing is a very...

Mark Sprague | Sep 8, 2011 at 9:44 am ET

Schema.org: Google, Bing & Yahoo Unite To Make Search Listings Richer Through Structured Data

Today, “in the spirit of sitemaps.org“, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have announced the joint alliance of schema.org. This alliance...

Vanessa Fox | Jun 2, 2011 at 1:08 pm ET

Google Testing Instant Previews On Ads (Here’s What It Looks Like)

Google is testing a new feature that marries its Instant Previews with AdWords. The test gives searchers a chance to see the ad’s landing...

Matt McGee | Apr 20, 2011 at 1:52 pm ET

Google Launches Instant Previews

At last, Google has finally gained a page preview feature. Called “Instant Previews,” this is a way for you to see what’s on a...

Danny Sullivan | Nov 9, 2010 at 9:00 am ET

Yolink Goes After Publishers With Search Preview Tool

There have been many search “preview” tools, plug-ins and add-ons that try and give users a peek at what’s behind a link on a...

Greg Sterling | Jul 6, 2010 at 8:35 am ET

Google Expands Rich Snippet Support Internationally

Nearly a year ago, Google announced that they had begun extracting metadata from microformat and RDFa markup on pages to display “rich...

Vanessa Fox | Apr 27, 2010 at 10:54 am ET

Google Adds More Answers & Info To Search Results

Google has announced a pair of changes to its search results pages that make its search results pages more informational and give searchers...

Matt McGee | Jan 22, 2010 at 2:59 pm ET

Yahoo Adds Facebook As A SearchMonkey Friend

Thanks to Yahoo’s SearchMonkey, you’ll be able to poke your friends right from a page of Yahoo search results. Yahoo has announced...

Matt McGee | Feb 26, 2009 at 11:01 am ET

Yahoo Shows Wikipedia Some SearchMonkey Love

Yahoo has just announced that the Wikipedia SearchMonkey App is now turned on by default for all Yahoo search users. Wikipedia becomes the sixth...

Matt McGee | Jan 15, 2009 at 12:01 pm ET

Google Testing Enhanced Listings, “Pagelinks” & Auto-Spelling Correction

Google is testing a number of changes to its search results, including a way for select publishers to enhance their page descriptions, a way for...

Danny Sullivan | Dec 12, 2008 at 10:33 pm ET

Yahoo Adds Local Content To Search Results Via SearchMonkey

Yahoo has announced the addition of more local business content to their web search results thanks to Yahoo’s SearchMonkey program. Yahoo...

Matt McGee | Oct 17, 2008 at 3:21 pm ET

Wikia Search Releases Third Party Search Enhancement Platform

Wikia Search, the “open source” search engine that launched to great fanfare earlier in the year, has introduced a new platform...

Chris Sherman | Oct 8, 2008 at 12:01 am ET

Wikia Introduces “Evolution” Toolbar To Expand Reach To Other Search Engines

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Greg Sterling | Aug 7, 2008 at 10:18 am ET

Yahoo! SearchMonkey Enhanced Listings Available To Searchers

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Vanessa Fox | Jun 6, 2008 at 1:07 am ET