Bing turns 10: Why it’s been more disruptive than you think
A look back, and ahead, at Microsoft's search business.
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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.
EU approves controversial copyright directive aimed at Google, Facebook, Twitter
The new rules, which require member-state approval to go into effect, amount to a kind of 'GDPR for copyright.'
Google releases AMP Stories v1.0 with new features, including an ads beta for DFP users
AMP Stories is now available to all developers.
SearchCap: Google webspam report, Bing ads, bot herding & 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 Ads Automated Extensions — formerly Annotations — now have UI reporting and opt-out Jun 28, 2018 by Ginny Marvin 10 Automated Extensions are available in Bing Ads. Optimize for local […]
Google’s AMP Project announces new consent component ahead of GDPR compliance deadline
Development of a new Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) component enabling publishers to acquire user consent is underway and accepting comments.
Google AMP team launches ‘Render on Idle’ to load ads faster when browsers sit idle
The feature works automatically with DoubleClick AMP ad tag and for ad networks using Fast Fetch.
Google adds new SEO Audit category to Chrome’s Lighthouse extension
The popular auditing tool used by developers and search marketers now enables users to run basic SEO checks against site pages.
Visually understanding your site structure and external link weight impact
Looking for insights not easily gleaned through spreadsheets and raw data? Columnist Dave Davies explains how to use Gephi, a data visualization tool, to create a visual representation of your site structure with regard to inbound link strength.
SearchCap: AdWords extensions for call-only ads, SEO 101 & Bing Ads updates
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 3 AdWords extensions now eligible for call-only ads Sep 21, 2017 by Greg Finn Account-level extensions will be eligible to display automatically with the ad type. 3 behavioral stats for retailers […]
Google Says AMP Will Come To Google Search “Early Next Year”
Still in testing, AMP pages are set to see their public debut in Google search in early 2016.
Google Trends Now Tracking YouTube & Google News To Identify Trending Topics In Real-Time
In its biggest expansion since 2012, Google trends rolled out a number of new updates today, including real-time data and a redesigned homepage.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 4, 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: New UK Conservative Party Co-Chair Grant Shapps Founded Google Spamming Business The UK’s Conservative Party has a new co-chair, The Right Honourable Grant Shapps, Member of Parliament for Welwyn Hatfield. Honorable […]
Common Crawl Makes New Web Data Available, Launches Coding Contest
Looking to do research based on data gathered from across the web? That’s one of the purposes of Common Crawl, and the group has just released new data, as well as a contest to encourage use of that data The 2012 data, which contains 3.8 billion web documents, shows stats such as 63% of top […]
“Don’t Be Evil” Tool — Backed By Facebook & Twitter — Shows Google’s “Search Plus Your World” Can Go Beyond Google+
I’ve written that Google has plenty of public data to allow parts its new Search Plus Your World feature to be inclusive of rival social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Now, those networks are proving that true, through a new “Don’t Be Evil” tool that lets anyone leverage Google’s own results to see this. The tool […]
Hidden In Google Profiles: More Social Network Connections On The Way?
Is Google readying several new “connect an account” options in Google Profiles? Today, if you visit the connected accounts settings for your profile, Google offers a dropdown with six options: Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, Quora, Twitter and Yelp. But, as James Slater pointed out today, there are several additional social account options that appear to be […]