New personalized, Shopping Actions-enabled Google Shopping debuts in France
Personalized recommendations and universal checkout are front and center in the update.
Topic: France
Botify founder: Half of enterprise pages not being crawled by search engines
The company hopes its the $20 million it just picked up in series B will bolster its platform to tackle today's "complex" SEO climate.
Waze partners with WPP to literally drive traffic to retail stores
The partnership will launch in North America and parts of Europe.
Bing Ads multiple language targeting: What you need to know
There are important nuances to ensuring your ads reach users in the languages they understand.
Google may be headed for victory in EU right-to-be-forgotten indexing appeal
The top legal advisor for the European Court of Justice has recommended that delisting under RTBF not extend outside the EU.
SearchCap: Google Maps personalization, Google AMP report & Google shopping
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: What’s a CDP? Does your company need one?Dec 10, 2018 by Digital Marketing Depot Gartner predicts that the average US adult will own more than six smart devices by 2020, making […]
Report: Google PLA antitrust remedy turning comparison engines into agencies
Google shopping competitors now 32 percent of results in UK, Germany, France.
How Search Engines Rank Pages
Google ranks pages by using an algorithm to search its massive database of everything it can find on the internet, and find pages that seem relevant to each individual search. For popular searches, it will have cached the results (or some table of top results at least) so that it can serve them even faster. […]
Gerda Taro, first female war photographer, featured in film Google doodle
Google honors "the little red fox" photographer with a special Google logo.
Bing Ads debuts Target CPA, Maximize Conversions smart bidding strategies
A campaign only needs a minimum of 15 conversions within the past 30 days to be eligible for either of the new bidding strategies.
Lyudmila Rudenko, Soviet chess player, featured with a Google logo
Woman Chess Master Lyudmila Rudenko was born 114 years ago, and Google remembers her today with this doodle.
YouTube aims to show more authoritative search results around news topics
Google to provide more sources and context on breaking news-related searches in YouTube.
Polished Microsoft News app joins rivals Google and Apple News
The new app and news experience is great for consumers, but is it equally beneficial for publishers?
TripAdvisor survey: TripAdvisor more trusted, widely used than Yelp, Google, Facebook
The sponsored survey looked at influence on restaurant decision-making.
Google doodle honors long distance runner Tom Longboat
On Tom Longboat's 131st birthday, Google honors his life and achievements with an animated Doodle in the United States and Canada.
Chat rate is the new CTR for AdWords message extensions
Google is rolling out message reporting metrics in the next few weeks for the US, the UK, Canada and other countries.
Disney theme parks now on Google Street View
Users can now virtually tour almost every inch of Disney's many theme parks.
Bing Entity Search API is now available
The API enables you to pull Bing Knowledge Graph information about people, places, things, and local businesses directly into your sites and apps.
Law and reputation firms generate 21% of Right to Be Forgotten delistings, says Google
New report from Google digs into three years' worth of data on removal requests and exposes the delisting criteria.
4 ways to get more out of Bing Ads
Sometimes Bing Ads is the forgotten stepchild of PPC. The reasons probably trace back to when Bing Ads was very hard to manage and provided very little opportunity for the effort invested, but times have changed. With now more market share and easier tools to manage them, Bing Ads can be a lucrative opportunity for […]
Apple says HomePod is finally coming on February 9, but can it compete?
Apple also said that Siri is now used on more than 500 million devices.
Sergei Eisenstein Google doodle honors Soviet film director known as the ‘Father of Montage’
Eisenstein's technique of editing film to create fast-paced sequences made him a cinema legend.
Marlene Dietrich Google doodle honors the legendary actress’s career
Actress, humanitarian, star and icon gets a Google logo on what would have been her 116th birthday.
The Google Assistant SDK adds support for additional languages & more
In addition to new language support, Google has added customized settings, text-based queries & responses, device action functionality and more.
Google confirms mid-December search ranking algorithm updates
As the updates continue to roll out, early indications suggest disruptions in mobile SERPs, sites with no schema data & those relying on doorway pages being most impacted
European press agencies push for licensing fees for their content from Google, Facebook
It remains to be seen whether European legislators and regulators will pick up the cause, but there's a possibility that they will.
Google Manufacturer Center for product data expands scope, launches API
A new API, more countries and knowledge panel visibility give brands more incentive to use Google's product data management tool.
US court orders Google not to comply with Canadian court’s order delisting search results
The US court agreed with Google that implementation of the Canadian court's ruling would violate US laws, including the right to free speech.
Bing expands Shopping Campaigns to Canada & India
Bing continues its global build-out of Shopping Campaigns.
CSEs will compete head-on with Google Shopping in EU search results
To provide "equal treatment" in the ad auction, Google Shopping will operate as a separate business unit bidding against Comparison Shopping Engines
Alphabet to create separate business unit in Europe to run Google Shopping
Effort is attempt to comply with European antitrust decision; would force Google to bid against rivals in the AdWords auction as a standalone entity.
Report: Google beats Amazon for product-search reach, but rival sees greater loyalty
56% of US, UK, German and French shoppers use Amazon as a starting point.
Google Assistant coming to more speakers and home appliances from LG
“Ok Google, start vacuuming.”
SearchCap: Google Instant dies, AdWords call bids & Google legal issues
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 has dropped Google Instant SearchJul 26, 2017 by Barry Schwartz Several years after Google launched Google Instant, they are killing the default search feature to bring search more inline with […]
Google fighting local battles over global control of its index in Canada, France
Regulators and courts seek to assert authority over global search results rather than limit decisions to their own countries.
Alphabet (GOOG) reports big revenue gains but EU fine takes a bite from earnings and income
Aggregate paid clicks were up 52 percent but CPCs were down 23 percent.
Top European court to decide if Google needs to purge disputed links from global index
French regulators have argued that the "right to be forgotten" is not fully enforceable unless content is removed worldwide.
Josephine Baker Google Doodle honors Jazz Age icon & highlights her civil rights work
Born on this date in 1906, Baker was one of the most photographed women of her time.
SearchCap: Bing Visual Search, Microsoft expands Bing Rewards to UK & 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: Bing Visual Search lets you search specific objects within images Jun 1, 2017 by Matt McGee Bing joins Google, Pinterest and others in upgrading its image search capabilities. Microsoft expands its […]
Microsoft expands its Bing Rewards loyalty program to the UK
Bing's incentive program will also launch in France, Germany and Canada soon.