Ask.com shuts down after over 25 years
The turn down web page says, "Jeeves’ spirit endures."
Topic: Ask.com
Rand Fishkin: Zero-click search began long before AI
Fishkin also discussed AI’s unreliable answers, Google reducing organic visibility, and why early SEO offered more open opportunities.
The push layer returns: Why ‘publish and wait’ is half a strategy
See how AI systems process content through five entry modes — and why relying on crawling alone limits visibility, speed, and revenue
New Really Simple Licensing standard could make AI pay
A new licensing standard – Really Simple Licensing (RSL) – aims to let web publishers set terms on how AI systems use their content.
The modern SEO: Researcher, strategist and project manager
The SEO of 2025 wears many hats: strategist, researcher, collaborator. This is the new SEO mandate – and how to stay relevant.
SEO in an AI-powered world: What changed in just a year
What does SEO look like when AI tools become the first stop, not the last resort? A look at what’s changed – and what hasn’t.
This day in search marketing history: February 29
Spreading Santorum drops on Google, plus: Bing artificially increases market share, local mobile search in apps, Susan Wojcicki and more.
How SEOs can embrace AI-powered search
Here's a look at Google's history with AI, how recent developments impact the industry and what SEOs can do to keep up with changing times.
Andi Search adds Generated Content feature
The small startup search engine is launching a new ChatGPT alternative – but is this generative AI tool worth your time?
This day in search marketing history: February 18
Yahoo stops using Google search, plus: Core Web Vitals, RSAs become default, Google Shopping Campaigns For PLAs and more.
Over one million people signed up to try the new AI-powered Bing
The excitement and interest are very real for the new Microsoft Bing search experience.
Yahoo is making a return to search
Yahoo has been dropping hints over the past couple weeks about its return to competing in the search space.
This day in search marketing history: January 25
Google defuses miserable failure, plus: Topics API replaces FloC, value-based bidding, average search ranking position and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 11
Google's mobile intrusive interstitials penalty, plus: AdWords eases negative keyword management, Search Plus pushing Google+ and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 3
Why Google penalized Google Chrome, plus: DuckDuckGo launches Donttrack.us, Google challengers, Google newspaper ads and more.
YouTube may start showing ads on non-monetized videos; Snapchat launches Public Profiles for Businesses; Monday’s daily brief
Plus, Google expands ways to reach new and returning app users and update in-app event tracking
SearchCap: Google fact checks, Ask.com privacy bug & SEO winning
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 expands fact-checking effort to all searches worldwideApr 7, 2017 by Danny Sullivan Is an online claim true or not? Google hopes special callouts for fact-checking articles will help searchers get […]
Ask.com exposing real-time user queries to the public
Ask.com left its server status Apache page open to the public, exposing private search data to the world.
Report: Google earns 78% of $36.7B US search ad revenues, soon to be 80%
Amazon and Yelp expected to see biggest search revenue growth rates in US.
Search Engine Land’s Top 10 News Stories Of 2016: Goodbye right-rail ads, goodbye visible PageRank & more
Our annual year-in-review coverage starts with a look at the most popular news stories we covered in 2016.
Billions served: PC search is down but query volume is way up for Google
Mobile searches now constitute between 50% and 60% of queries in the US market.
10 big changes with search engines over my 20 years of covering them
Search Engine Land founding editor Danny Sullivan looks at how search has changed over the two decades he's been writing about it.
Data show that search query volumes on the PC peaked in 2013
Three years ago was the high-water mark for desktop search.
Since 2013 Bing’s Share Up 5 Points, Ask & AOL Going Way Of The BlackBerry
January US desktop search rankings from comScore were released yesterday. There was almost no movement in the numbers from the previous month; Bing and Ask gained a tiny fraction of a point each. For the major search engines, total query volume was up slightly across the board, but volumes were essentially flat. These desktop data […]
Powerball Numbers? You’ll Be Surprised Which Search Engines Knew Them
It was the biggest lottery drawing in US history, and neither Google nor Bing showed searchers the winning numbers. Here's who did.
Search Market Share In October 2015 Looks A Lot Like It Did In October 2008
October desktop search data from comScore came out late Friday afternoon. Google appears to have “stabilized” at roughly 64 percent market share, while Bing and Yahoo are also mostly unchanged from September. Search market share was in nearly the same place in October 2008. Google controlled roughly 64 percent of search query volume, and the […]
Google Controls 65 Percent Of Search, Bing 33 Percent [comScore]
In the simplest terms, the world of organic search is roughly two-thirds Google, one-third Bing. Those are the July 2015 “powered by” numbers provided by comScore for the US search market. In terms of non-network share, Bing saw a tiny 0.1 percent gain in July, and so did Ask. Google was flat with 64 percent, […]
US Desktop Search Rankings Hold Steady; Google Maintains 64% Share
Google and Ask each drop 1/10 of a percentage point in comScore's monthly rankings of the domestic search market.
Yahoo Signs Deal With Oracle To Attract New Users Via Java Installs
Yahoo hopes to repeat the success of last year's Mozilla Firefox partnership, which grew its search share in the U.S.
SearchCap: Google Top Searches, Nest In Google Now & Google News In Spain Closes?
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 To Close Freebase, Which Helped Feed Its Knowledge Graph Freebase announces they will close up shop after migrating their data and APIs to Wikidata. How will this impact the Google […]
Yahoo 2014 Search Trends: Ebola Ranks No. 1 For Top 10 Searches & Most Searched News Stories
Following Ask.com last week and Bing on Monday, it’s now Yahoo’s turn to share its most popular searches for the year. Mayer’s site released its top searches for a number of categories, including most popular searches overall, top obsessions, and news stories, as well as offering up a few Tumblr lists. Ebola ranked No. 1 […]
SearchCap: Google Poland Penalty, Break Up Google & Black Friday Shopping
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 3 Proven Ways To Write Ads That Deliver More Conversions Now you know you need to change your paid search creative to keep it fresh. Contributor Frederick Vallaeys shares tips from […]
Ask.com’s Top 10 Searches For 2014: “What Are The Symptoms Of Ebola?” Leads The List
With more than a month still to go in 2014, Ask.com has already released its top searches for the year. Based on its 100 million monthly U.S. users, Ask.com says “What are the symptoms of Ebola?” was the number one question for news related searches on the site in 2014. Ask.com listed its top trending news, […]
SearchCap: Strange “Right To Be Forgotten” Requests, Ask.com CEO Refutes Arbitrage Accusation & More
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: In The EU, Lots Of People Are Asking Google To Forget Content That They Authored Here’s one from the “shaking my head” department: If you assumed that all of the “Right […]
SearchCap: Google Structured Snippets, DuckDuckGo Blocked In China & Ask.com Arbitrage
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 Ask.com Google Arbitrage Ever Stop? Google has been steadily cracking down on sites with poor quality content, both on the organic and the paid side. So why does Ask.com continue […]
Want Scotland Election Results? Don’t Bother Asking Google Or Bing
It’s not often you have a vote that might create a new, independent nation. But that’s what’s happening today with Scotland. It’s such a big event that you’d think Google and Bing would be doing something special to provide election results. That’s not the case. Both search engines have long done special presentations for U.S. elections or […]
Study: Top 5 Search Engines See Search Traffic Drop By As Much As 31% Since December 2013
A newly released report from Shareaholic claims the top five search engines — Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask.com and AOL — have all experienced a decline in search traffic since December of 2013. Using data from December 2013 through May 2014, Shareaholic evaluated aggregate organic search traffic numbers from more than 300,000 publishers reaching an audience […]
Is eBay A Big Loser In Google’s Panda 4.0 Update? — Winners & Losers Data
Yesterday, Google began rolling out their Panda 4.0 update designed to punch low-quality content. That’s generated both “winners” who have moved up in rankings as “losers” have dropped down — and eBay might be one of the big losers. Searchmetrics gave us their initial winners and loser charts, based on rankings they continually monitor. These show […]
Quixey Offering Deeper Search Results Inside Mobile Apps
Quixey, which describes itself as a search engine for apps rather than an alternative app store, has announced deeper “functional search” within apps. Previously, Quixey allowed app discovery by keyword or category, delivering users to the “front door” of relevant apps. Now, Quixey will surface information that “lives inside of apps.” Quixey offers web-based app search […]
Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone Launches New Social Search App Jelly
Building on the concept, “If you have a questions, there’s somebody out there that knows the answer,” Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and former Twitter colleague Ben Finkel have launched Jelly, a social search app that uses your social networks to deliver results. According to the announcement today on the company’s blog “Jelly is designed to […]