Google announced they are shutting down several products as part of their “summer spring cleaning” efforts. One of those products is iGoogle, once known to be Google’s faster growing product. In fact, iGoogle at one point accounted for 20% of all visits to Google’s homepage! Now, Google decides to kill it off on November 1, […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Group: Google Should Halt All Online Dating Ads Until They’re Sure None Are Fronts For Human Trafficking Google says it’s spending “millions of dollars” to police AdWords ads to ensure they’re […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Googlebot Identifies Smartphone Content With New User-Agent Google has announced that its mobile crawler now has a user-agent that’s specific to smartphones. The company has already had a user-agent that targets […]
Google is retiring its Base API and replacing it with two shopping-centric APIs, requiring developers to modify applications that manage and search product data. Google Base will be shuttered permanently as of June 1, 2011. The Content API for Shopping will be used for uploading data, and the Search API for Shopping for accessing product […]
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 Shifts Search Ads Closer To Free Results James Carswell noticed that Google, on some browsers, has shifted the search ads on the right hand side of the search results page, […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Dear Senator (and Texas Gubernatorial Candidate) Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Here’s A Free Crash Course On SEO standybykay.com, the “Kay Bailey Hutchinson for Governor Official Website” put up by “Texans for Kay […]
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
Watching Shawn Collins of the Affiliate Summit conference tweeting about a big party at the Googleplex last night, I wondered what was up. Turns out folks were being entertained as part of Google’s own Google Affiliate Network Client Summit. Whoa. Is that new? Nope. Google tells me this is the 5th annual summit they’ve held. […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google has launched a new affiliate network named the Google Affiliate Network. In an effort to consolidate the DoubleClick acquisition, Google created the Google Affiliate Network and has announced the retirement of AdSense Referrals, which is part of Google’s Pay-Per-Action product. Google launched Pay Per Action ads in March of 2007. I saw first signs […]