Verdict is in for CEO involved in forging court order over reputation attack
This case highlights the lack of protection and justice available for online defamation victims from Google and other tech companies.
Topic: Eric Goldman
SearchCap: Google+ closing down, Bing Ads Editor in-marketing audiences & Google My Business analytics
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 Ads Editor now supports in-market audiencesOct 8, 2018 by Ginny Marvin Manage in-market audience associations in bulk. Google to close Google+ after 7 years: A look back at the impact […]
Florida court: Google permitted to delist sites regarded as spam under First Amendment
The e-ventures Worldwide, LLC vs. Google case should have been dismissed earlier.
SearchCap: AdWords price and promotion extensions & a Google Doodle
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: New take on Showcase Shopping ads? Categories of used items showing for retailer outlet queriesNov 18, 2016 by Ginny Marvin Similar to the Showcase ad format introduced this summer, the ads […]
SearchCap: Bing search app, SEM automation & link building
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 search app for iOS & Android gets new music, video & map featuresAug 26, 2016 by Amy Gesenhues Bing’s making it easier to find song titles, as well as add […]
SearchCap: Gboard update, Google local reviews & more
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 app now delivering restaurant reviews & best-of-lists for local searchesAug 4, 2016 by Amy Gesenhues Released today in the U.S., Google says food and drink related searches will now return […]
SearchCap: Google Maps time visit, email verification & AdWords price extensions
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 Maps showing how long people typically spend at a store or venueJul 18, 2016 by Barry Schwartz New feature shows you time based on crowdsourced location data. Google rolling out […]
Florida court allows Google to be sued by publisher delisted as “pure spam”
Procedural ruling flies in the face of established legal precedent.
SearchCap: Google bans payday loan ads, Alexa works with Kayak & More
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 bans ads for payday and high-interest loans May 11, 2016 by Ginny Marvin As of July 13, the ads will no longer be accepted in AdWords. A script for getting […]
Trademark Court’s Impossible Order: Uber Told To Change Google Search Results
Judge tries to strike a balance but fails to understand the inherent problem at the heart of order -- controlling search outcomes.
SearchCap: comScore Search Share, Google Search Console Data & Search Agencies
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: New In AdWords: Stage Campaign Changes In Drafts, Test Changes In ExperimentsFeb 18, 2016 by Ginny Marvin Campaign drafts and experiments make reviewing proposed changes and testing those changes more accessible. […]
SearchCap: Google On Links, RTBF In US & Tweets Indexing
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Wywy Lets Advertisers Sync Search Bidding With Television Campaigns eHealth.com is first to boost Google AdWords bids in the minutes after commercials air. Google Now Indexing 466% More Tweets, Still Favoring […]
SearchCap: Google Panda & Penguin Confusion, Bing Mobile Design & Google Japan Reviews
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 Panda & Penguin Lack Real-Time Updates, Despite Google’s Past Statements Google had given statements that its Panda and Penguin anti-spam fighting filters were running constantly. Now it says there’s still […]
SearchCap: Google Search Impact Report, Expedia Buys Orbitz & AdWords Topics
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: AdWords Success for 2015: Conversion Tips from Inside Experts Is your AdWords campaign ready for success in 2015? 10 WordPress SEO Questions That Took Me 10 Years To Answer! Looking to […]
SearchCap: Bing’s 5th Birthday, Connect Google+ Pages & China’s Censorship
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: New: Connect Your Google+ Business Page To Your Google Maps Listing Google has now enabled those with Google+ business pages to connect their page to their local business listing on Google […]
SearchCap: Mac Spotlight Drops Google, DuckDuckGo Added To Safari & Google Eyes Free
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Big Win For DuckDuckGo: Apple Adding To Safari As Private Search Option DuckDuckGo, the search engine that positions itself as a completely secure and private search engine, is getting a big […]
SearchCap: Suing SEOs, Googlebot Render Page & Top AdWords Impressions
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Adapting to Change, Harnessing New Trends, Eyeing the Future Search Engine Land Summit You deliver results daily, but staying successful means identifying opportunities, implementing new technologies and processes, developing great […]
Lawyers Sue SEO Firm For Violating Google Guidelines
A law firm in Michigan, Seikaly & Stewart, is suing its former SEO provider — but not for a lack of ranking success. Rather, the firm is getting sued for allegedly using “spammy” techniques violating Google’s guidelines. That comes via Eric Goldman. The defendant Rainmaker Institute, which specializes in online marketing services for the legal profession, is accused […]
SearchCap: Local Search “On The Go,” Google Maps Upgrades, App Annie’s New Mobile Tools
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Re-imagining Google: America’s Favorite Homepage Gets A Redesign By Letter Society Blog Early last month, the design blog Letter Society posted a challenge asking its select group of designers to submit […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 12, 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: Google’s Matt Cutts: I Recommend NoFollowing Links On Widgets Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a video answer this morning strongly recommending that those who place widgets on their […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 6, 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: Google Introducing “In-Depth Articles” To Search Results Google is rolling out “in-depth” articles this morning. We previously wrote about the test when it appeared a couple of months ago. In-depth articles […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 21, 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: Where Have All The Linkers Gone? A unique combination of factors is having a profound effect on the “link graph” being created today, with many implications for those of us in […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 8, 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: Google Explains Why Your New Page’s Number One Ranking May Drop Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts posted a video explaining why it is not uncommon to see a new […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 19, 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: ChaCha Defeats Google, Bing And Siri In “Answers Quality” StudyA study published today by Indiana-based Butler University compared the performance of a range of search engines and Q&A sites on mobile […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 29, 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: BrightLocal’s Local SEO Industry Survey Now Open Local SEOs are being invited to take the Local SEO Industry Survey 2013, which is being organized again this year by the local SEO […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 24, 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: Yandex Launches Experimental “Wonder” Voice Social Search App For The US Yandex, the company behind the leading search engine in Russia with a presence in Turkey, has taken a radically different […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 13, 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: “Shortlists,” 360 Degree Product Views, And Promotions Added To Google Shopping As consumers prepare to get serious about their holiday shopping, Google is introducing new features to its pay-for-play Shopping search […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 9, 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: Cutts: Infographic Links Might Get Discounted In The Future In an in-depth interview between Eric Enge and Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts – Cutts said that Google may discount […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 21, 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: Google Sued By Texas Attorney General To Turn Over Documents According to a report in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Google has been sued by the Texas Attorney General’s office. The […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 29, 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: Google Releases Penguin Update 1.1 No matter that it’s late Friday night on the start of a three-day holiday weekend in the U.S., Google has just pushed out the first update […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 17, 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: Bing Search API Now On Paid Platform About a month ago, Microsoft informed us the Bing API would no longer be free and today is the day they migrated the Bing […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 19, 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: Home Depot To Correct Misleading Link Request It read like one of those bad link requests you get. Link to me, and you’ll rank better. It even suggested hiding the link. […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 28, 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: 10 Content Ideas To Improve Organic Visibility In the past series of articles, we focused on determining what keywords were already generating business for a web site and then optimizing your […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 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: Mobile Traffic To Retail Sites To Hit 15% During Holiday ’11 More evidence of the growing importance of mobile comes this time from IBM, which predicts that “an unprecedented 15 percent […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 2, 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: Yahoo Product Runway: Livestand And IntoNow Yahoo held its second now annual “Product Runway” event, mc’d by product chief Blake Irving. Irving was assisted by some younger executives from companies that […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 18, 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: Facebook Gestures: How Users Could Be Sharing Their Opinion Facebook “Likes” have become a universal way to share or promote a piece of content on a blog or website (or Facebook […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 12, 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+ Search Goes Real Time & Gains Hashtag Support Google has announced that its still relatively new Google+ Search feature now will update its results in real time plus has new […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 21, 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 “Action Buttons” Lets You Book Flights, Rent Cars & More Bing announced a new feature in the search results named “Action Buttons.” Action buttons give you quick links to perform […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 9, 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’s Matt Cutts Offering More Detailed Video Search Tips The Google Webmaster Blog announced a new format for Google’s Matt Cutts video tutorials. Instead of the short minute or so videos, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 1, 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, MSFT, Yahoo In Talks To Buy Hulu: Report Hulu is apparently a popular dance partner at the moment. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are […]