SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 8, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Topic: Chicago
Google Rolls Out Chicago Transit, Defends Water Naming Policy In Earth
Google announced that it had expanded Google Transit to cover Chicago, the second largest public transit system in the US. That brings to 37 the number of cities in the US and abroad offered on Google Transit.
Search In Pictures: Yahoo Bubble Boy, Herbie Hancock Live, Google Hancock Building
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
A New Scourge For Yahoo: Affiliate Mapspam
I’ve been writing about Mapspam appearing in both Google and Yahoo search results for some time now. Mapspam is where black hat SEOs spam local search and map listings, and like all black hat techniques, it seems to get more sophisticated as the search engines find ways to combat the spammers’ techniques. There’s a new […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 24, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Hyper-Local “News” Site EveryBlock Emerges
EveryBlock is a new local “news” site that seeks to answer the question, “What’s happening in my neighborhood?” It aggregates data and content from a variety of sources and currently covers three US cities: Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. EveryBlock competes with Outside.in, YourStreet, and Topix to some degree. We noticed the site based […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 21, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Search Year 2007: Search News, In Review
Each month, I compile Search Month — a recap of all the stories that have happened relating to search, categorized by topic. I thought it would be fun to take all the Search Months over the past year and produce this edition of Search Year 2007. It was far more work than I imagined, but […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 13, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
MapSpammers Getting More Sophisticated
After the first relatively unsophisticated Google MapSpam bulk upload attempt became public, I had a long and interesting conversation with a webmaster who had spent many years implementing a “long tail search” campaign on behalf of local business in a major market. He pointed out that with a little bit of work, a national company […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 10, 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 7, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Search Conference Coverage 2007: SES Chicago Day Four & PubCon Vegas Day Three
Today is the fourth and final day of SES Chicago and the third and last day of PubCon Vegas sessions. Here’s a recap of session coverage out of both shows, from across the web:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 6, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Search Conference Coverage 2007: SES Chicago Day Three & PubCon Vegas Day Two
Today is the third day of SES Chicago and the second day of PubCon Vegas. Here is a recap of the coverage of sessions out of both shows, as found from across the web:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 5, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Search Conference Coverage 2007: SES Chicago Day Two & PubCon Vegas Day One
Today is the second day of SES Chicago and the first day of PubCon Vegas. Here’s a recap of session coverage out of both shows, from across the web:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 4, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Live Search Conference Coverage 2007: SES Chicago Day One
Today kicks off the first day of SES Chicago, while tomorrow will be the first day of PubCon Vegas. Here is a recap of the coverage I found for the sessions at SES Chicago. Tomorrow we will post both SES Chicago and PubCon Vegas recaps in one post.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 3, 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, November 30, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SES Chicago & PubCon Vegas Next Week: Can’t Make It?
Next week, two major search marketing conferences,
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 29, 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, November 12, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
December’s Battle Of The Search Conferences
It’s mid-November, when WebmasterWorld’s PubCon is traditionally held. But all’s quiet on the Las Vegas front. What’s up? This year, PubCon has moved to December, running head-to-head against Incisive Media’s SES event in Chicago. What’s a search marketer to do?
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 7, 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, November 6, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Taking On ARF, Engagement, Interruptive Advertising… And Whatever Else You’ve Got!
In 2005, The Advertising Research Foundation (ARF), through their MI4 Initiative, decided to embark on the Quixotic quest of defining engagement. The impetus was finding a more appropriate and applicable metric that could stretch across the rapidly expanding number of channels that were exploding through digital delivery. So, the good folks at ARF assembled a […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 28, 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, September 25, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Goodbye Search Engine Strategies!
It’s Search Engine Strategies San Jose next week. For Chris Sherman and I, it’s our swan song. This is the last SES event that either of us will program, with our search marketing conference efforts going forward focused on our own Search Marketing Expo (SMX) events. But we’ve put our all into making the last […]
Now Showing: Google Video On Privacy
Some webmasters may know of Google’s Maile Ohye through her work in Google Webmaster Central, but now she plays a new role explaining issues about search privacy, in a new video from Google. It’s the first of several videos on the subject that Google has announced that it will be doing. I found the first […]
Bulk Upload ‘Mapspam’ On Google
Is it black hat “mapspam,” a mistake or a creative response to a legitimate business need? Mike Blumenthal has chronicled the history of some recent bulk upload abuse on Google Maps in a couple of detailed posts: TechPro’s CEO speaks about Google Maps Bulk Upload abuse and the related Batten down the hatches: More Google […]
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:
Google Confirms Acquisition Of FeedBurner
The Google Blog has confirmed the rumors upon rumors that they have acquired FeedBurner. Google said they have acquired them to give “AdWords advertisers broader distribution to an even wider audience of users.” You can find FeedBurner’s CEO, Dick Costolo’s thoughts on the acquisition here.
Wedding Congrats For Sergey & Gary
Last weekend was apparently a big weekend when it came to weddings and search. Both big names in search got hitched — Gary Price and Sergey Brin. No, not to each other (not that there would be anything wrong with that, of course!). ResourceShelf editor and Ask.com search evangelist Gary Price tied the knot near […]
Search In Pictures: Mazel Tov Gary, Psychedelic Google, Taylor Hicks At Yahoo
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 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, April 25, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Turn Your PPC Advertising Campaign Into An Effective Search Marketing Machine
Are you treating your PPC campaign as an advertising outlet or a marketing opportunity? Many PPC advertisers treat the engines as advertising distribution, but fail to create marketing messages. PPC engines have many features that let you have control over ad display, however, if you just use these features to serve ads—then you’re not taking […]