This day in search marketing history: March 27
Google research finds a #1 organic ranking can still benefit from PPC, plus: RIP Blekko, authorship, Google robots.txt generator and more.
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This day in search marketing history: February 13
Google AMP stories launch, plus: unconfirmed algorithm updates, faceted navigation and infinite scroll, AdWords display URL policy and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 13
Google's Matt Cutts search integrity tour, plus: core updates, Carol Bartz becomes Yahoo CEO, Baidu censors Google and more.
Be There. Introducing The Bing Network.
At Bing, we’re building a platform that gives people “knowledge for doing” in a more natural, predictive and personal way. It’s the intelligence that spans not just across Microsoft products but across platforms and across partners. Bing Network connects you to the moments that matter by being in the products people use every […]
Bing Ads Announces Syndication Deal With AdMarketplace, Gumtree.com
Deals expand reach for Bing Ads advertisers in search results on US and UK digital properties.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 13, 2012
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 7 Key Mistakes That Cost Advertisers ‘Mobile Super Bowl I’ By now, you may have already put Super Bowl XLVI in the history books. But let’s remember: this was the first […]
With So Much Money Is A Facebook Search Engine Inevitable?
The news broke yesterday that Facebook was getting a whopping $500 million from Goldman Sachs and existing investor Digital Sky Technologies at a valuation of $50 billion. None of this has been confirmed by the company but it’s being very widely reported. Apparently the Goldman investment will enable the company’s most wealthy clients to “get […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 13, 2010
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 Optimize A Mobile AdWords Campaign Google is going mobile in a big way. Following the announcement of Nexus One, the official Google phone, and the acquisition of adMob, Google […]
Harvard Professor Details New, ‘Insidious’ Form Of Google Click Fraud
One of Google’s more vocal critics says the company should cut its ties with InfoSpace over what he calls “a particularly insidious kind of click fraud” that involves a fairly complex combination of paid ads, affiliate traffic brokering, and spyware. Harvard assistant professor Ben Edelman also wants Google to repay the affected advertisers and be […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 19, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 1, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web
IAC To Launch Startups, Take A Demographic Approach To Search
The Wall Street Journal reports that IAC, parent of Ask, is preparing to launch a number of startups after its spin off of some of its traditional media properties. Among the new sites is RushmoreDrive, a niche search engine targeting African Americans. What’s interesting is its demographic approach to search.
Ask Mobile Adds “Click To Speak” Directions
Ask’s Mobile WAP site has added voice to the process of getting directions. The voice-activated service is provided by Dial Directions. On the mobile Ask site, next to the “Directions” link you’ll find a new “Voice Entry” link. That sends users to the Dial Directions phone number (347-328-4667) or initiates a phone call. Users then […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 31, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 12, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Yahoo Does Deals With Cars.com, CNBC, Renews Deal With InfoSpace
Yahoo Autos has swapped out previous partner, AutoTrader, and replaced it with a broader editorial content and listings deal from newspaper-owned Cars.com. It’s unclear whether Yahoo’s embrace of the newspaper industry had anything to do with the deal. But it promises more content and listings on the site and apparently “marks the first time new […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 16, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google’s Android Arrives: Not Gphone But An Open Source Mobile Phone Platform
After literally years of anticipation, rumor, and increasingly aggressive speculation about a Google Phone, Google has formally announced that the Gphone cometh — sort of. Today, the company has gone public with news of an open source mobile operating system called "Android," named after the company Google acquired in 2005. Backing Android is the Open […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 18, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
With Dogpile Beating Google In Satisfaction, Owner InfoSpace Needs To Reinvent Itself, Be Risky With Metasearch
InfoSpace recently sold both its local and directory assets and its mobile platform business to Idearc/Superpages and Motricity respectively. So what’s left? Specifically Dogpile and its cousins Metacrawler, Webcrawler and the domain InfoSpace.com. The company also owns the kid-friendly search site Zoo.com. Amid all this, JD Power & Associates has just named Dogpile “highest in […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 15, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
InfoSpace Sells Mobile Services Business–What Next?
Only weeks ago, InfoSpace sold Switchboard and its local/directory business to Idearc/Superpages for a reported $225 million. Today, Motricity announced that it had acquired the company’s mobile services business for $135 million. Motricity wants the business for the revenues and carrier relationships and to tell a better story to the market as it moves toward […]
Google To Keynote At SMX Local & Mobile
I’m delighted to announce that Michael T. Jones, Chief Technologist of Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google Local Search, will be delivering the keynote address on Monday at our inaugural SMX Local & Mobile Conference in Denver. Michael will be offering an inside look at Google’s various local and mapping services, and will also talk […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 17, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Superpages Parent To Acquire InfoSpace Directory Sites
Recently Superpages has been putting out a press release a day, and today is no exception. The company just announced that it would be buying the directory assets of Infospace — the only one explicitly named is Switchboard.com — for $225 million (mixture of cash and debt). Infospace.com itself is a directory site and so […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 5, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
History Of AOL Search
In preparation for those trying AOL tomorrow as part of our first Google-Free Friday, I thought it would be helpful to give some background on AOL in search. AOL has long offered search — and even owned several web crawling technologies — over the years. Don’t forget to read AOL: Tomorrow’s Google Free Friday Alternative […]
FAST Buys Recommendations Engine AgentArts
Enterprise search provider FAST Search & Transfer has acquired personalization platform and recommendations engine AgentArts. The technology will be folded into FAST’s various enterprise search offerings, which include a range of site search and monetization options for online publishers. The company also has a mobile search partnership with InfoSpace. FAST has positioned itself as a […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 26, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 25, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
InfoSpace Introduces Video Search On Dogpile, Blinkx Offers Contextual Ad Targeting For Video
InfoSpace has introduced video search on its Dogpile search engine through a partnership with Blinkx. Search results are identical to those found on Blinkx, which is also providing video search for other engines and portals, most notably Ask but also Lycos and ChaCha. It also provides some video search capabilities for Microsoft as well.
AOL’s Truveo Builds Video Search Network With 40 Million Users
Video search engine Truveo, acquired by AOL in late 2005, announced that it now has a user base of almost 40 million monthly uniques (per comScore). This is not at Truveo.com but across a diverse network of partner sites, which it powers. The company also said that since late last year it has seen 50 […]
comScore Reports New IYP/Local Search Numbers
In a release out today, comScore is reporting on traffic and its distribution to various local search and Internet yellow pages sites. Yahoo is pronounced the market leader, with a 22.4 percent share of all “IYP searches.” The company’s local search leadership, according to comScore has been consistent since comScore started tracking the category. However, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 11, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
InfoSpace Launches Mobile Services Platform
InfoSpace released a new mobile platform called “mCore.” Designed to help carriers provide a better user experience, the new platform offers mobile search, storefronts, portals and messaging. It’s also modular to enable carriers to use all or part of the platform. Simultaneously, InfoSpace announced Virgin Mobile in Europe and Verizon Wireless in the U.S. as […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 1, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Dogpile: Search Results On Major Engines Diverging
InfoSpace-owned metasearch engine Dogpile, which recently refreshed its homepage and made other, minor changes, published the results of its second “search overlap” study. The first study, released in 2005 and commissioned from the University of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania State University, found that 84.9 percent of results on search engines were unique to one engine and […]
Virgin Mobile USA To Offer JumpTap Local Search
Virgin Mobile USA, which has been working since December with private-label mobile search provider JumpTap, announced that it would add now add local mobile search. Users will be able to type a query and their zip, city or state to get local information. Both search functionality and local content on mobile devices are core, strategic […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 27, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Mobile News From CTIA And Beyond: InfoSpace, V-Enable, ZenZui
Beyond the news of Yahoo’s new mobile content and ad networks and Google’s new mobile search upgrades, there’s a good deal of mobile search-related news coming out of CTIA today. Among the announcements, InfoSpace has launched a direct-to-consumer version of its mobile local-search application Find It! for Blackberry devices. Previously the company was working exclusively […]