Apple continues to improve its mapping product by adding new features and content, albeit often under the radar. Last year, reviews and content from Booking.com and TripAdvisor began to show for locations and travel destinations, especially outside the US. In June of this year, the company introduced public transit routing as part of iOS 9 […]
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 Testing New AdWords Site Search Extension A new flavor of AdWords form extensions has been spotted. It’s a site search box, and according to Google, this test is related to […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Says Goodbye to Bing Shopping, Hello Product Search With Rich Captions & Product Ads Today, Bing announced that Bing Shopping is being replaced by Product Search, which simply integrates product […]
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: Links In Press Releases Should Use Nofollow Like Paid Links Friday we broke the news that Google updated their link schemes webmaster guidelines. Now that the dust has settled, I […]
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 Agrees To Settle Lawsuit Over Passing Search Queries To Third Parties Google has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit that stems from two searchers accusing the company of sharing their […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: DuckDuckGo Passes 2 Million Daily Searches DuckDuckGo, the upstart search engine that hangs it hat on protecting its users’ privacy, hit a new milestone on Monday: its first day with two […]
Early yesterday, Israeli business website Globes.co.il said that Google will acquire social mapping app Waze for $1.3 billion. That report has subsequently been all-but-confirmed by others, including the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which said the announcement could come this week. The WSJ said that by size Waze would constitute Google’s fourth largest acquisition, assuming it comes to pass. […]
A Yahoo spokesperson confirmed that Dylan Casey has joined Yahoo as a senior director in the platform organization. According to Casey’s Linkedin profile, the new Yahoo senior director was head of project management at Path for the last year and five months after serving as a product manager at Google for nearly eight years. During […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: 2013 Boston Marathon Explosion: Official Information Sources Following today’s explosions at the Boston Marathon, social media channels were immediately swamped with reports and graphic images, videos from the scene. Race officials […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Want To Speak @ SMX Advanced? Here’s How The agenda is live, and we’re now accepting submissions to speak at SMX Advanced 2013 in Seattle, on June 11-12, 2013. To increase […]
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 Panda Update 25 Seems To Have Hit There are many webmasters and SEOs believing right now that Google has released an update to their Panda algorithm late yesterday. We’ve reached […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: How To Work With Four Common SEO Leadership Styles I’ve had the pleasure of working on SEO in a variety of companies both in house and, frequently, through casual advice to […]
According to AllThingsD, Google is about to settle the so-called “WiSpy” investigation with 30 US state Attorneys Generals. Google will admit no wrongdoing and pay $7 million according to the report. The article says the settlement will be announced next week. In early 2012, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) concluded its own WiSpy investigation with no finding of […]
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’s Matt Cutts Awarded Patent On Detecting Hidden Text & Hidden Links A new Google patent was awarded today named Systems and methods for detecting hidden text and hidden links. The […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: How To Stop The Panic Before Asking “Have I Been Panda Slapped?” You may see a drop in rankings or traffic and immediately panic. Have I been Panda-slapped? Even now, as […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: ChaCha Defeats Google, Bing And Siri In “Answers Quality” StudyA study published today by Indiana-based Butler University compared the performance of a range of search engines and Q&A sites on mobile […]
Laurie Mann has been promoted to run Yahoo Search. Mann, who is a man, has been senior vice president of engineering operations at Yahoo since 2002. Prior to that Mann spent a number of years at Oracle in various engineering roles. The news was first reported late last night by AllThingsD. Mann fills the position that was […]
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 Settles With France: No ‘Link Tax,’ But €60 Million Media Fund Google has avoided getting hit with a “link tax” in France by agreeing to create a €60 million “Digital […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Will [Not Provided] Ever Reach 100% In Web Analytics? With the news today that Chrome is moving to secure search, marketers may be wondering about the larger picture of using search […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Report: PLAs Drove 28% Of Google Non-Brand Ad Clicks In Q4 Google Product Listing Ads generated 28% of Google non-brand clicks in Q4 according to RKG’s latest Digital Marketing Report released […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Facebook Is Wikipedia’s Most Popular Article Of 2012: Hot Topic Or Confused Searchers? What was the most viewed article on Wikipedia this year? The one about Facebook. Is Facebook really that […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: What’s In Your 2013 SEO Playbook? I’ve thought about writing my 2013 SEO game plan since I hit the submit button for last year’s version. The problem is, since when my […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: A/B Testing From Search To Conversion As I mentioned in a previous post, search marketers should work on finding the middle ground between a high CTR (appealing ads) and a high […]
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’s Policing Of Duplicate Ad Sitelinks Extensions Misses Apparent Violator — Itself AdWords advertisers know that Google has plenty of policies by which you must abide, like Ad Sitelinks extensions can’t […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: FTC Ruling On Google Anti-Trust Issues Expected Tomorrow; EU Expects Settlement Offer Next Month The European Union appears to be closer to agreement with Google about anti-trust concerns relating to search, […]
The European Union appears to be closer to agreement with Google about anti-trust concerns relating to search, and action seems likely to happen in January. Meanwhile, the expected US Federal Trade Commission ruling that was supposed to happen before the end of this year now looks delayed into at least next month. Multiple sources are […]
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 Maps iPhone App Gets 10 Million Downloads In Two Days Just about a week ago Google’s new Google Maps iPhone app was released and oh boy were people waiting for […]
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 In Privacy Flap With Germans Over New iOS Maps According to a report in Computerworld, Google has violated German data protection and privacy rules with its new Google Maps app […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Raven Tools To Remove Scraped Data To Maintain Access to AdWords API While there has been lots of talk about a Google crackdown on developer access to the AdWords API, there […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Mobile Search Beyond Google: In App Search Tools A couple months back, I covered the rise of a new generation of Windows Phones, and how they will slowly bring more mobile […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: No, That Wasn’t A Panda Update — But One Is Coming We’ve been hearing reports from within the SEO community that a significant Google update happened starting this past Friday throughout […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 5 Important Trends Affecting The Local, Social & Mobile Industry On Tuesday last week, London hosted the Local Social Summit 2012, the fourth year this great (and growing) summit has been […]
The world, it seems, just cannot wait for Facebook to come along and start its own search engine and knock Google off the top of search mountain. The rumors and expectations of this go back for years. Now the latest twist: Yahoo and Facebook will team up together. If you’re banking on that potential alliance […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: “Shortlists,” 360 Degree Product Views, And Promotions Added To Google Shopping As consumers prepare to get serious about their holiday shopping, Google is introducing new features to its pay-for-play Shopping search […]
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 Launches Disavow Links Tool Google has launched a new and widely anticipated “disavow links” tool. The tool was announced by the head of Google’s web spam team Matt Cutts, when […]
It would appear that Siri will be getting a little more searchy. As AllThingsD reported this afternoon Apple has hired William Stasior, the guy who took over at Amazon’s search engine A9 after Udi Manber left for Google. While Siri isn’t a search engine it can operate like one from a user perspective. With Stasior’s […]
It’s official. Apple’s new Maps in iOS 6 have problems so serious that even Apple CEO Tim Cook has issued a public apology about them. What does Apple do next? Going back to Google-powered Maps is unlikely but not out-of-the-question. More likely, Apple will push through the pain. However, it could reconsider whether maps really […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Eric Schmidt Floats Idea Of A Yahoo-Google Search Partnership Apple, Google and mapping apps weren’t the only thing that Eric Schmidt spoke about today in Tokyo. Forbes is reporting that Schmidt […]
Apple is taking a painful public beating right now on its new mapping app. Some people are even starting to get a bit hysterical over some of its failings. It’s turning into the iPhone 5’s version of “antennagate.” Indeed, much more negative publicity might cause some “fence sitters” to hold off on upgrading or buying […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Apple Demos Local Search (Maps) And Siri Enhancements For iPhone 5 Today at the iPhone 5 launch event Apple announced a thinner, taller and faster iPhone. (Danny is still live blogging.) […]