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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...