Yelp brings restaurant reservations and waitlists to ChatGPT
ChatGPT users can now reserve a table or join a Yelp waitlist without leaving the conversation, streamlining discovery to booking.
Topic: Alexa Internet
Why agentic commerce will matter more than ChatGPT ads
Google, Amazon, and OpenAI are building AI-powered buying. Here's why your product data matters more than your next ad platform.
Amazon launches Alexa+ Agentic Ads
Amazon's new Alexa+ Agentic Ads let consumers complete purchases directly within a conversation.
Amazon turns Alexa into a shopping agent — and an advertising platform
Amazon is weaving advertising into AI-powered shopping conversations, giving brands new ways to reach consumers.
Analyzing competition with SE Ranking tools
Unravel your competitors’ secret strategies and leave your rivals behind with SE Ranking, all-in-one software for SEO professionals.
What is Quora?
Founded in 2009, Quora is a social network based around knowledge. Users of the site may post questions, which anyone may then answer. Users also have the option to request answers from specific users if they like, and Quora will also prompt users who have previously answered questions on the same subject to attempt to […]
New Link Tool Crowdsources Your Disavowed Links In DisavowFiles
A crowdsources tool that helps you be more confident when disavowing links pointing to your web site.
Google Publishes Full Text Of EU Antitrust Agreement
This afternoon on its European Blog, Google’s General Counsel Kent Walker exposed the full text of the company’s third-proposed and tentatively accepted antitrust settlement agreement with European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia. Almunia previously declined to make the full agreement available. The document, dated January 31, 2014, is quite long (embedded below) and contains extensive examples of […]
New Tool: BigWebStats Aggregates Website Statistics And SEO Data
Marketers may want to add BigWebStats to their lists of research tools. The new site pulls a wide range of information on just about any website. Enter a URL and BigWebStats aggregates data from several sources across the Web and displays it in one page, including visitors insights, social engagement, domain and technology information and […]
Apple’s Siri Drives 25 Percent Of Wolfram|Alpha Queries
Yesterday knowledge engine Wolfram|Alpha announced an intriguing new paid service Wolfram|Alpha Pro. Gary Price wrote an overview of the new service, which will likely appeal to academics, data geeks and a range of other specialized users. Wolfram|Alpha is by no means a mainstream search engine, yet it has managed to establish something of a beachhead […]
How To Use Social Proof For Social Content Promotion
You’ve heard it before, “Content is king”, but is it really? When it comes to promoting content in social media, content is not what’s solely going to drive popularity to your campaign. Content is still a very important factor, especially if you are using a resource hook to drive traffic and links. I’ll wait for […]
Truveo Says It’s The Most Comprehensive Video Search Provider
An internal Truveo study conducted during the past month found that Truveo has a more comprehensive video search coverage than its top competitors. According to Truveo it undertook the study itself because “there is no major testing organization, publication or consulting firm publicly conducting ongoing quality studies of video search engines.” Included in the study […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 8, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Yahoo! Lets You “Build Your Own Search Service”
Yahoo! has just unveiled the next phase in their plan to spur search innovation by providing search-related resources to developers. The Yahoo! Build Your Own Search Service (BOSS) enables developers to access Yahoo! search results, combine them with other sources, rerank them, and define their appearance. Yahoo! says they are making BOSS available in an […]
Mr. Google, Tear Down This Google Trends Wall!
About two seconds after Google Trends For Websites came out, people started noticing that one company’s websites oddly had no data available — Google’s own. Google will tell you all about the traffic to competitors like Yahoo and Microsoft but gives away nothing about itself. The same is true for the newly-released Google Ad Planner […]
Super Tuesday, Internet Style: How We’re Using The Web In The 2008 Elections
Today is Super Tuesday, which means that voters in 24 states are carefully reviewing their candidate research and doing last minute thoughtful analysis in preparation for voting in the primaries. Well, maybe that’s hopeful optimism, but in any case, the place these voters are turning to for information is increasingly the internet. Makes sense, as […]
How To Be The Elvis Of Linking
Elvis Presley is credited with being one of the first pioneers of rock and roll. He launched his career in 1955 by popularizing black and bluegrass music and scandalized many with his suggestive pelvis moves. A lot of musicians have become famous since then, but none have defined rock and roll like Elvis. When you […]
Mahalo Follow: Toolbar Gives You Human-Powered Alternatives To Searching, Surfing
Mahalo Follow is a new toolbar that allows you to view Mahalo’s human-powered search results next to the results from the major search engine of your choice or have them appear in response to pages you view on the web. Mahalo Launches With Human-Crafted Search Results from me in May explains more about the Mahalo […]
QueryCAT – Search FAQs
QueryCat is a search engine that is designed to search frequently asked questions, and they claim to have the largest database of these, by using the Alexa web crawler. They have apparently indexed over 2 million questions and answers (though this information isn’t on the website) which is a fair number. I tried lots of […]
Search Bloggers On Their Most Popular Posts & Stats For 2006
Search bloggers around the globe are celebrating the holiday season by giving the gift of competitive intelligence. From sharing their most popular posts to giving up all of their precious web statistics – a community of search bloggers are sharing more than they ever have.
Google By Far The Leader, If You Look At Site Owner Traffic Stats
When I posted Enquisite’s search engine popularity stats yesterday, I almost went into a riff about how site owner traffic stats are often so different from what the major measuring services report. Google almost always comes out much, much higher when you look at site traffic referral sources (as with Enquisite’s stats). I did get […]