Google, Yahoo, Bing & Others Do 4th Of July Logos
It’s the 4th Of July! Happy 4th to those celebrating today, and here’s a look at how search engines are recognizing the holiday in logos:
Topic: Dogpile
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 25, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Penn State Study: Paid + Organic Listing = 15% Clickthrough Rate
Penn State’s Jim Jansen announced a recent study they just finished that looked at the click through rate of search ads. They studied hundreds of thousands of users, as they interacted with Dogpile, the popular meta search engine. The findings were somewhat surprising to Jansen. The clickthrough rate on an ad when it was supported […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 24, 2009
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, January 19, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google & Others Martin Luther King Jr.’s Logos
Like last year, today, the search engines are commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I attached a collage of logos and themes from the various search engines, including Google, Yahoo, AOL, Live.com, Ask.com and Dogpile. To see them all in greater detail, you can visit their respective home pages today or go to the Search […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 31, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Spooky Search Engines On Halloween
Google, Yahoo, Live, Ask, DogPile and many more are celebrating Halloween with special spooky logos or themes. Below you will find the logos and themes I spotted throughout the search industry. Google seems to have totally ‘geeked out’ the fear in Halloween by adding spooky thoughts to their robots.txt file: User-agent: zombies Disallow: /brains
7 Search Tools You May Not Know … But Should
Google UK recently shared a list of 52 Things to Do on a variety of Google properties (found via Phil Bradley). It’s a collection of tools and tips about using Google products and services for some everyday functions. If you’re a search power user, you probably know most of them already. But Google’s message seems […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 19, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Pirate Search & Talk Like A Pirate Day
Today is the official day for Talk Like a Pirate Day. Many tech companies and personalities like to mention the day, in some way or another. Google wrote about their Google Pirate Search, as shown above. Dogpile’s dog dressed up for the day. Facebook, as TechCrunch reports, has pirate talk in their translation tool. FriendFeed […]
Labor Day & Programming Note
Today is Labor Day and I wanted to let you know that normal search news coverage will be mostly suspended for the day. In addition, I do want to point out the Labor Day logos from the various sites in our industry. As I noted this morning at the Search Engine Roundtable, neither Google, Yahoo […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 16, 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 12, 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, March 17, 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, February 14, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Logo & Others Say Happy Valentine’s Day
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! Google and other search engines and search blogs have special logos and themes up for the day. Here are logos from Google, Yahoo, Ask, DogPile, and others in the search industry:
Search Engines Commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States, and many of the search engines have special logos up for the day. Google has an artistic logo, with children drawing the face of Martin Luther King Jr. on a sidewalk. Ask.com illustrates their background with Martin Luther King Jr. speaking and pointing. Dogpile […]
Holiday Search Engine Logos For 2007
Happy Holidays, Search Engine Land Readers! The logos above are from Google, Yahoo, and Ask.com for the 2007 holiday season. Google will actually be uploading a new holiday logo each day, Yahoo’s logo is very animated, and Ask.com has snowflakes falling from the sky! Plus, as always, ’07 Holiday Season Logos & Themes From Search […]
Thanksgiving Search Engine Logos & Off For The Day
Search Engine Land is taking the Thanksgiving holiday off, and best wishes to all those celebrating today. We’ll be back with regular coverage tomorrow. Search engines are celebrating with special logos like those above. See the full-sized versions (including Yahoo’s animated one) and more special search logos in Search Engine Roundtable’s regular roundup, Thanksgiving 2007 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Search in Pictures: Search Cars, Ask Cricket, & Yarrrr!
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, September 19, 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 3, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Ask.com: Today’s Google Free Alternative
Today’s the day we’re encouraging people to try Ask.com as part of our Google Free Fridays in July. But why is it happening on a Monday? Because I’m a day behind, as I explained last Friday. Shush, you! What’s that? Why do we hate Google so much to be promoting Google Free Fridays? We don’t, […]
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.
Ask Relaunches: Now “Ask 3D”
Chris Sherman once compared Ask.com to Apple. Ask CEO Jim Lanzone remarked to me that he liked the comparison because it spoke to quality and innovativeness. Indeed, among the top-tier search engines Ask has arguably been the most innovative. In one sense it has to be. Without that effort it might lose hold on the […]
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 […]
Hitwise: Search Popularity Static; Live.com Only Tiny Slice Of Microsoft’s Share
The latest search popularity stats for March 2007 have come out from Hitwise. They show nothing different than last month. Google had a tiny 0.2 percent rise, while Yahoo dropped the same tiny amount. Live had a tiny 0.3 percent rise, though given Live’s already small amount of traffic, that’s more important to the service. […]
Search Funnies: The April Fool’s 2007 Roundup
April Fools Day was yesterday, and the search engines along with others in the search world, went all out. Here is a roundup of the different pranks played.
Fury Over Google’s Self Promotion & Wishing For Perspective
It feels like a bad week to be Google. Honestly, if there’s a tipping point, the freak-out that they’ve become the evil company they said they didn’t want to be seems to have arrived. Goodness knows there’s plenty to be concerned about with Google, as with any large powerful company. The entire Google could become […]