SearchCap: Getty Images, SEO and website migrations & Winter Olympics Doodles

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

• Google, Getty Images enter a multi-year global licensing partnership
  Feb 12, 2018 by Greg Sterling

  The deal effectively ends Getty’s European antitrust complaint against Google.

• Monitoring web migrations: A checklist for moving from one site to another
  Feb 12, 2018 by Aleyda Solis

  Contributor Aleyda Solis walks through what to monitor during a web migration and explains how to fix issues so you don’t lose traffic and rankings.

• RIP A/B Testing
  Feb 12, 2018 by Sponsored Content: Sentient Technologies

  Gather all ye family, friends, webmasters and digital marketing executives. We’ve come here to celebrate the life of the now outdated A/B Testing process, which has finally succumbed to the inefficiencies that have plagued its process. What was A/B? How many of us truly knew what A/B Testing was? Allow me to briefly introduce the […]

• Winter Games doodle kicks off Google’s Doodle Snow Games
  Feb 9, 2018 by Amy Gesenhues

  Today’s doodle is the first doodle of a 17-day series celebrating the Winter Olympics.

Recent Headlines From Marketing Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:

• Pixability guarantees YouTube brand safety for advertisers
• The power of shared beliefs: Market what you believe, not only what you do
• How should retailers respond to Amazon Go? 7 experts weigh in
• IAB’s first publication on blockchain in advertising paints an optimistic picture
• Microsoft’s Cortana comes to iPad, ChromeOS devices to get Google Assistant
• IAB publishes GDPR advice for advertisers who use OpenRTB
• RIP A/B Testing
• Snap offers free credits to brands running vertical video ads on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, elsewhere
• Twitter’s business is finally growing again, but its audience isn’t. Maybe that’s OK.
• What 3,000 voice search queries tell us about the ‘Voice Search Revolution’
• Does trust matter more than growth? Salesforce’s Benioff thinks so.

Search News From Around The Web:

• Google Autocomplete Suggestions Are Still Racist, Sexist, and Science-Denying, Wired
• Attorneys General Weigh In Against Google Privacy Settlement, MediaPost
• Coalition Effort to Block Ads Quietly Fueled by Google Data, Ad Age
• 5 Key Things Worth Analyzing in Your Competitors’ PPC Strategies, SEM Rush
• Google Job Schema Adds Telecommute Markup, Search Engine Roundtable
• Google’s Next Android Overhaul Is Said to Embrace IPhone `Notch’, Bloomberg
• Related Entity Scores in Knowledge Based Searches, Go Fish Digital
• Testing New Bidding Strategies Through AdWords Experiments, PPC Hero
• Unconventional Content: PR Stunts for SEO, Distilled
• Why Digital Personal Assistants Will Change Search, Stone Temple

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Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on social media at @rustybrick, +BarrySchwartz and Facebook. For more background information on Barry, see his full bio and disclosures, click over here.