What are external links? SEO benefits and best practices
External links build trust and authority. Learn what they are, why they matter for SEO, and how to use them strategically without hurting your rankings.
Topic: Eiffel Tower
The Great Decoupling of search and the birth of the agentic web
What happens when being found no longer means being visited? The Great Decoupling is here – and it’s changing the web forever.
When and how to use knowledge graphs and entities for SEO
Learn when using entity-based SEO strategies can give you an edge – and how to implement them without wasting effort.
Advanced AI prompt engineering strategies for SEO
Learn how to fine-tune prompts for precision and relevance, enhancing the efficiency of your AI-generated content.
Bing Webmaster Guidelines updated for “conversation mode” and AI
Bing also updated the answers section to incorporate the new AI version of Bing Search.
Chapter 7: User context signals & search engine rankings
Search results for a given query can vary from user to user. It’s not that everyone sees completely different results. Instead, everyone sees many of the same “generic” listings. But there will also be some listings appearing because of where someone is, who they know or how they surf the web. Search engines also try […]
FAQ: All about the BERT algorithm in Google search
What it is, how it works and what it means for search.
Microsoft goes open source with one of its Bing algorithms
Microsoft's Space Partition Tree and Graph algorithm enables developers to apply vector search to traditional, audio and visual queries.
Google adds trending searches and instant answers to iOS app
Google adds previously introduced Android search capabilities to iOS app.
Bing refreshes weather search results with interactive slider to see forecasts throughout the day
Snowbirds can also get quick results for snow conditions at US ski resorts.
For answering questions, Google Home bests Amazon Echo & Alexa
If you've always wanted someone around the house to answer all the questions you have during the course of your day, that someone is a something -- Google Home.
Halloween Google Doodle treats searchers to Magic Cat Academy game
Google is celebrating Halloween by replacing its logo with an interactive game filled with ghosts and a magic cat.
[WATCH] Google’s Amazing Location-Aware Search Finds Answers About Nearby Places
Now you can ask Google to give you information about landmarks, buildings and businesses around you without ever having to actually use their names.
SearchCap: Google Maps Pac-Man, Google/Baidu China & Senator Lee FTC
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Click-to-Call Deep Dive: Best Practices from Search Experts – April 16 Webcast Tips for search marketers trying to turn mobile callers into customers. Google’s PAC-Maps Gets April Fools’ Ball Rolling Early, […]
When Did The Eiffel Tower Open To The Public? Today’s Google Logo Marks 126th Anniversary Of Paris Attraction
Built by Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel for the World's Fair, the now iconic structure opened to the public on March 31, 1889.
Google Search App Now Answers Your Questions In French, German Or Japanese
Google announced an international upgrade to the Google Search App, which enables the voice response answers that work currently in English to also work in French, German or Japanese. So not only can you ask your question in English, French, German or Japanese or other languages via voice search — Google will respond to that […]
Léon Foucault Honored With A Google Logo To Mark His 194th Birthday
Today’s Google logo is an interactive image of Foucault’s Pendulum, a device created by French physicist Léon Foucault who was born on this date 194 years ago in Paris, France. The Foucault Pendulum was the first experimental demonstration of the Earth’s rotation on its axis. Showing the rotation of the plane of oscillation of a […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 16, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Back-To-School PLA Advertisers: Heed New Google Shopping Feed Requirements This is important for all merchants running Google product listing ads to note, but the timing makes it particularly key for advertisers […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 22, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: It’s Official: Wikipedia Is A Google News Source Google’s “experiment” in using Wikipedia as a news source on Google News is over, at least in the U.S. and Canada. The experiment […]
Google Researchers Create Landmark Image Search Engine
When most of us travel, we like to visit famous landmarks in the area we’re touring. It’s easy to find famous landmarks, like the Eiffel Tower or the Great Pyramid, but can be difficult to find lesser known sites. And for armchair travelers, it can take time to search for images of landmarks even with […]
Live Image Search Adds Face, Portrait, B/W, & Related Features
The Live Search Blog announced new image search features over the weekend. The new features include a way to search for images of people by face, portrait, black & white and related people. Here are examples of the new features in action, by searching for [paris]:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 29, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google Images Quietly Adds Face Filter
Google Operating System reports that Google has added the ability to restrict your Google Image search by faces. To do so, just append “&imgtype=face” after your search string. For example, a search on paris returns results of Paris, France, the Eiffel Tower, Paris Hilton and others. A search on paris but with “&imgtype=face” appended to […]
Yahoo Maps Get A Makeover
Although Microsoft might disagree, Yahoo was really the company that kicked off the dynamic mapping arms race back in March of 2004 with the introduction of a feature called “SmartView” ( a version of it still exists on Yahoo Maps “dial-up” presentation). SmartView enabled users of Yahoo Maps to conduct map-based searches using category buttons […]
Return To The Search Engine Shoot-Out
My colleague Chris Sherman briefly looked at the PC World ‘Search Engine Shoot-out’ article the other day, and I also mentioned it in my own weblog. I read through the article briefly, but something about it kept nagging me, so I wanted to go back and look at it in rather more detail. The more […]