Viral post accuses Google’s AI Overviews of breaking its own spam rules
After Google announces its latest spam update, a post roast AI Overviews for violating Google’s own spam policies.
Topic: Dan Barker
Elon Musk names new Twitter CEO: Linda Yaccarino
Yaccarino, who was chairman of global advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal Media, will focus on business operations at Twitter.
This day in search marketing history: February 28
R.I.P., DMOZ, plus: Multifaceted featured snippets, Google's non-answer on CTR, voice search ranking factors and more.
Google continues testing new search results interfaces, including wider & card–styled results
Google is constantly testing new search results interfaces. Here are some screen shots of their latest tests.
Google Now Shows Emoji Characters On Desktop Results But Doesn’t Let You Search By Them Like Bing
Google's desktop search results can be jazzed up with Emoji characters, at least for now.
Google Tests: New Mobile Search Design & People Also Ask Box
Here are two new Google user interface tests, one is a redesign of the mobile results and the second is a query refinement box.
Live Blog: Head Of Google Search Amit Singhal Keynote At SMX West 2014
Good evening/afternoon (or early morning for our European readers!) from sunny San Jose, Calif., where day one of our SMX West conference is almost finished. We’re wrapping up the Marketing Land Digital Marketing Summit with a keynote conversation between Google’s Amit Singhal and Danny Sullivan, founding editor of both Marketing Land and Search Engine Land. […]
Interflora Gets Its Google Rankings Back, 11 Days After Penalty
Interflora, the major UK flower delivery service, is showing up again in Google’s search results — just 11 days after it was penalized. According to some tweets and posts on Google+, Chris Gilchrist was first to spot Interflora’s resurrection today. As you can see in the screenshot above, Interflora is ranking again on searches for […]
How An iOS 6 Change Makes It Seem Like Google Traffic From Safari Has Disappeared
A change in iOS 6 made by Apple and not anticipated by Google means that for the past week or so — and likely for some weeks to come — those reaching web sites from Google’s search engine after doing searches from within Safari will be counted as “direct” traffic rather than “search” traffic. As […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 30, 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: Microsoft Explains Removal Of Age And Gender Targeting From AdCenter What do you do when you figure out that a lot of self-reported data you’re using to target ads is inaccurate […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 4, 2011
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 Analytics Webmaster Tools SEO Reports Now Available In June, Google released a limited beta of Webmaster Tools integration with Google Analytics, where you can view search query data from Webmaster […]
A Look Inside Google’s London Store
Dan Barker posted 14 images of the first Google Store that launched in London last week. Here are some pictures shared by Dan of Google’s first retail store, named Chromezone, which he’s given us permission to reprint:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 22, 2011
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’s Read/Write World: An Ambitious Project To Bridge Maps With Movies, Photos, Local Data & More It’s probably not something that you can wrap your head around pretty quickly. It’s also […]