A Google spokesperson told Glenn Gabe, "Our systems aim to understand if a section of a site is independent or starkly different from the main content of the site. This helps us surface the most useful information from a range of sites."
Perplexity's new program aims to address recent controversies over content use while differentiating itself from traditional search engines.
Sites like CNN, USA Today, LA Times and others are seeing their rented subdomains and subfolders dropping in rankings after they were hit by manual actions.
Open AI said they disabled this feature "out of an abundance of caution" after users were able to access content behind some paywalls.
Expedia buys Travelocity, plus: Don't Be Evil tool, semantic search, Position 6 penalty, unlimited site exclusions and more.
Maybe the Google Trends update from last week is also used in Google's latest algorithmic update from last week? New SearchMetrics report shares some data around that.
Last week, while I was on vacation, the big news was the Google-Verizon “net neutrality” agreement. Mostly the public response has been negative and very negative in some quarters. Danny’s How Google & Apple Sold Out The Cell Phone Revolution is one example. The even stronger Why Google Became A Carrier-Humping, Net Neutrality Surrender Monkey […]
Yahoo has reportedly hired Eric Brown as head of communications for the company according to the Wall Street Journal. Brown is now VP of corporate relations for NetApp. New Yahoo CMO Elisa Steele also previously worked at NetApp. Brown will directly report to Steele. AllThingsD has Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz’s memo announcing Brown’s hiring: Eric […]
As the MicroHoo dance continues, here’s a wacky idea that just occurred to me: why doesn’t Nokia invest in or acquire Yahoo? It’s partly suggested by this Fortune article that discusses the challenges that the world’s leading handset maker faces in penetrating North America. Nokia has added a bunch of online services that try and […]
Fortune magazine asks why Microsoft can’t make money online, and shares some striking numbers: The company’s Online Services unit, which includes Live Search, aQuantive, and the MSN portal, lost $480 million in the quarter that ended September 30th — 80% more than the same quarter a year ago. Ouch! Why the struggles? The article suggests […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
The Fortune 500 are “woefully unrepresented in natural search,” according to a new report out this week. Conductor, a New York-based search/analytics agency, studied the natural search visibility of Fortune magazine’s 2008 Fortune 500 — a list of America’s biggest companies. “The Fortune 500 as a whole,” the report says, “had extremely limited natural search […]
Microsoft’s Kevin Johnson is perhaps the main strategist in the company’s battle for online advertising dollars and in some sense driving the future of Microsoft as an entity. Fortune magazine interviews and profiles Johnson. Johnson runs the group that controls the Windows OS and online services, including Live Search.
There’s a famous B.B. King blues tune called “The Thrill Is Gone.” I was recently on the phone with a Google employee (director level) who was expressing that very sentiment about his experience there. I was surprised to hear that from this particular individual. However, Google has seen some high profile departures and, dare I […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
FORTUNE magazine released its America’s Most Admired Companies of 2008 list, and guess what? Google was not rated number one. Hard to believe? Well, they did make number four. Apple took the top position, which doesn’t surprise me since everyone I know is buying Macs, even oureditor-in-chief, Danny. Google ranked at number four while Microsoft […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Fortune Magazine rated Google the best place to work in 2008. Google secured the top spot for a second year in a row because, as Fortune explains, “Google continued to mint millionaires as the stock cracked $700. The company gives stock options to 99% of employees.” Microsoft made the list at number 86, and Yahoo […]
Gokul Rajaram, apparently known internally at Google as one of the “godfathers of AdSense,” is leaving the company to pursue his own entrepreneurial projects and writing.
First it was Yahoo vs. Google, then it became Google vs. Microsoft, and now it’s Google vs. Facebook. People love drama and journalists in particular seek to tell dramatic stories with uncertain outcomes. Regarding this most recent drama (Google vs. Facebook), Fortune magazine’s Josh Quittner writes about “Why Google is spooked by Facebook and would […]
TechCrunch and USA Today have news that Yahoo is to close its popular Yahoo Photos service completely in the coming months, telling people to either switch to Flickr or leave to a number of other competing photo sharing services. From USA Today: Yahoo has said that it kept both services going after the acquisition because […]
Earlier I did a review of traffic stats for Search Engine Land in December 2006. Today, I’m looking at what happened on the site yesterday, in terms of most popular stories. I can’t promise to do this every day. But doing a daily stats review is part of my regular routine, and it helps me […]
Google — officially the best place to work. So says the latest survey from Fortune. But then again, Google’s got to keep the standards high as pre-IPO employees leave. A San Francisco Chronicle article also out covers how one-third of Google’s first 300 employees have gone, along with some comments on the culture getting more […]