Yahoo has decided to discontinue its “Go” mobile app. Go was originally part of a larger “three screen” strategy that included TV and mobile delivery of Yahoo content. The Go app was intended as a way to have a richer, self-contained experience on mobile devices. But that strategy has given way to a “Yahoo 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: Switzerland Suing Google Over Street View Switzerland is taking Google to court over privacy concerns related to Google’s Street View service. The BBC reports that Swiss privacy official Hanspeter Thuer is […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Why I’m NOT Drinking The “Real-time Local Search” Kool-Aid I’m hearing more and more about “Real-Time Local Search” – that phrase is popping up everywhere; but I’m just not buying 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: Google, Yahoo, Bing Bury GeoCities.com, But Some Zombie Sites Are Still Alive Although some GeoCities web sites are still online, all three major search engines have removed the domain from 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: Fall In Line: Understanding SEO’s Place In Company Ecosystem We’ve all been there. Heck, many of us are still there right now. We come to work every day, game to do […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Chinese Newspaper Says Google Censored Its Web Site Oh, the irony: The People’s Daily, the main newspaper of China’s Communist Party, says Google censored its web site by adding a malware […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Gems In The Google SEM Toolbox Already its own specialty of digital marketing and now almost 50% of all online advertising budgets, paid search has fully grown into its own channel. […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Landing Page Testing: Choosing Between A/B Or Multivariate Approaches There are quite a few testing techniques available in the market. In this post I will dwelve into the two commonest testing […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: An Open Letter To Derek Powazek On The Value Of SEO Derek Powazek launched an attack on SEO yesterday that really said nothing that others haven’t ranted about before. I’ve responded […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Dissecting The AP & Murdoch Speeches Against Those Internet News Thieves Associated Press president Tom Curley and News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch both made speeches yesterday in China that are being […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: SMX East 2009 Day Two Live Blogging Day two of the SMX East 2009 show is just about done. Here is some of the live blogging coverage from the day. If […]
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 Now Showing Ads On iPhone Map We got a tip from Anthony Avolio yesterday, who pointed out that Google was showing ads on Maps on the iPhone. Until then I […]
If you search for thepiratebay in Google and scroll to the bottom of the search results, you may notice that Google has said they removed search results from the page due to a complaint they received “under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act.” The result they removed included the Pirate Bay’s home page. Here is […]
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 Get More PPC Traffic For Less Money Search advertising success is defined by relevance. The concept of relevance is broad, but logical: it’s the relationships between advertiser, keyword, ad […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Shashi Seth, Another Ex-Googler, Lands At AOL AOL announced today that it’s hired former Google employee Shashi Seth as its Senior VP of Global Advertising Products. While with Google, Seth was […]
What amazes me is that in more than a decade no “brand” has really emerged in shopping search. What do I mean by “brand”? I mean a site that’s top-of-mind for consumers, trusted and that they navigate to directly for products and product information. One could say that the exceptions to this are Amazon, eBay […]
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 “Place Pages,” Gets Rid Of Tabbed Info Bubble Google is swapping its “info window” in Maps out in favor a much richer full-page experience that offers more information and […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should: Why DIY SEM Isn’t The Answer Everywhere you look today you can find books, television programs, and websites specializing in do-it-yourself. While this […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Schmidt: Someday, AdSense Publishers May Know Google’s Cut Of Ad Revenues How much money does Google keep back for itself from the AdSense ads it places on third party sites across […]
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 Fast Flip – Google’s Newspaper & Magazine Reader Goes Live The previously rumored Google news site “Flipper” is in fact launching today as “Fast Flip” in Google Labs. But maybe […]
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 2.0 “Visual Search” Launches, Allows Search By Pictures Microsoft has unveiled Bing 2.0 at TechCrunch50 today, also known as Bing Visual Search, which allows people to “search by picture.” After […]
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: Bigger Is Better When It Comes To Search Boxes Fresh off of patenting its home page design, Google is throwing caution to the wind and messing with success: It’s making […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Obama Praises Twitter, Google & Facebook — But Not Microsoft’s Xbox Does today’s speech from President Barack Obama to school children across the United States need any more controversy? Having listened […]
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 AdSense Improves The Competitive Ad Filter The Google AdSense blog has made improvements to the competitive ad filter. The two major changes includes increasing the size of the competitive ad […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Organizing Your PPC Account For Maximum Success Account organization is the first and most important step in the optimization process – it’s the foundation for success. Google News Gets Search Suggestions […]
As Google has grappled with newspapers firing rip-off accusations at them, one of the key responses has been from Google’s Marissa Mayer. A move to “living URLs” would drive them more traffic, she’s said, talking about it twice this past month. But such a system won’t work unless Google News fundamentally changes how it handles […]
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 Still No. 1 Search Engine On Earth; Search Activity Way Up, comScore Says Search activity around the world jumped 41 percent between July 2008 and July 2009, and Google remains […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Yahoo’s New Search Clothes — But Will It Help? (Probably Not) Less than a month after seeming to pull out of the search game by announcing a search outsourcing deal with […]
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 Video Presentation On SEO I have seen Matt Cutts of Google speak dozens of times, I have seen dozens of videos of SEO tips from Matt, I have […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: California Wildfires: August 2009 Edition Yes, parts of California are burning again — and the map makers are at work. Via Google’s Lat Long blog, there’s a new comprehensive map 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 Buys Video Compression Company On2 Earlier today Google announced that it had acquired On2 Technologies in a stock deal worth approximately $106 million. There’s little true information about how Google […]
First to pounce on the SEC 8-K filing by Yahoo was PaidContent, which provides an extensive bulleted list of many of the deal terms not revealed last week during the frenzy of conference calls and articles that followed the official announcement of the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal. CNET also writes about selected aspects of the deal […]
Microsoft and Yahoo are making it official: a deal about search. And to share the news, they’re gathering thousands of their closest friends to a press conference at 5:30am Pacific time today. Having been awake now for nearly 30 minutes, I’m just itching to get in and live blog this puppy. So come along for […]
Late yesterday Google announced (or finally admitted) that it had developed an operating system, called Chrome OS, not to be confused, exactly, with the related Chrome browser. Everyone and their grandmother seems to have an opinion about it. Here’s a sampling of the reaction, positive, negative and in-between: The fans, boosters and generally positive takes: […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Ask.com Expands AnswerFarm Q&A Database Continuing its move from being a traditional search engine to an “answer engine,” Ask today has announced that its “AnswerFarm” database has tripled in size, from […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Yahoo! Announces Common Tag: Like The Meta Keywords Tag, But Even Better Yahoo! recently announced their role in creating and supporting Common Tag, a new semantic tagging format. Yahoo! says that […]
In the U.S., we tend to do our streets big and wide. In Europe, not so much. (I have literally been able to cross a road in Ireland in four steps, and I’m barely 5-foot-9.) This is a problem for Google’s Street View tool and its mission to map the world’s roads — even the […]
CNET reports on testimony provided by Google VP Marissa Mayer on the “Future of Journalism” during a hearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet. Defending against claims that Google “parasitically” makes money off the backs of print newspaper content, Mayer said: Google connects Internet users […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.