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 Fast Flip – Google’s Newspaper & Magazine Reader Goes Live The previously rumored Google news site “Flipper” is in fact launching today as “Fast Flip” in Google Labs. But maybe […]
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 2.0 “Visual Search” Launches, Allows Search By Pictures Microsoft has unveiled Bing 2.0 at TechCrunch50 today, also known as Bing Visual Search, which allows people to “search by picture.” After […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Why You Can’t Ignore The Google Content Network – AdSense Q&A Recently, on the Inside AdSense blog, Google announced that it was opening up the Content Network to even more third […]
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 Still No. 1 Search Engine On Earth; Search Activity Way Up, comScore Says Search activity around the world jumped 41 percent between July 2008 and July 2009, and Google remains […]
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 Adds Products, Businesses, Events, Discussions & News To SearchMonkey The Yahoo Search Blog announced the expansion of the SearchMonkey platform to not only include richer search results for categories such […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: French Upset Over Google Library Deal, Lawyer-Author Files New Arguments Against Book Search Settlement It’s probably fair to say that the French have a love-hate relationship with American culture, companies and […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: California Wildfires: August 2009 Edition Yes, parts of California are burning again — and the map makers are at work. Via Google’s Lat Long blog, there’s a new comprehensive map of […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: How To Maximize The Impact Of Your Top Performing Keywords Behavior is unique for these high volume/value keywords and as a result, steps need to be taken to make these terms […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: SMX East Agenda Posted: All the Search Marketing Topics for All Skill Levels Come to Search Marketing Expo – SMX East for content so compelling, you may be implementing what you’ve […]
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 AdWords To Add Addresses On Ads: Location Extensions The Google AdWords Blog announced they will be allowing advertisers to add the full address to their search ads through location 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: Yahoo Buys Xoopit To Advance “Smarter Inbox” Strategy The web’s first (and some might still argue only) “killer app,” email, was invented roughly 35 years ago. And everyone seems to have […]
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 Seeks Privacy Counsel With Gov’t Ties Google Watch points out a job posting on the Google site for “Privacy Policy Counsel” based in Washington, DC. Given that Google is under […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Reports: Yahoo & Microsoft Very Close On Search Deal There are several reports tonight that Yahoo and Microsoft are close to consummating a search and advertising deal. 24/7 Wall Street cites […]
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 “Stabilized,” Reports $5.5 Billion In Q2 Revenues Google just reported second quarter earnings of $5.52 billion, representing “an increase of 3% compared to the second quarter of 2008.” The […]
It’s no secret that Google — and other search engines — uses a variety of factors to customize search results: your search history, your location, and so forth. If you misspell a word, search engines often guess what you intended to type and show auto-corrected results. But on Google’s search results pages, it’s becoming a […]
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 To Newspapers: Robots.Txt You Newspaper attacks on Google somehow apparently overstepping fair use and stealing their material are just escalating, with a European led “Hamburg Declaration” coming out last week. […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Report: Google Has Nothing To Fear From Bing Itself The only thing Google has to fear is fear itself. The immortal words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt sum up the findings of […]
Google Image Search has made it a bit easier to toggle between the three levels of SafeSearch. SafeSearch is the adult image filter Google uses to help prevent adult content from showing up in the image search results. The new toggle switch allows you to click on the filter type and then select from a […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: OPA Study Reaffirms Display Ads Drive Search Search and display. One often hears how they work together, but there’s still plenty of skepticism out there, especially in the SEM community, about […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: It’s Official: Wikipedia Is A Google News Source Google’s “experiment” in using Wikipedia as a news source on Google News is over, at least in the U.S. and Canada. The experiment […]
Google Blogoscoped reported that Google seems to be testing showing Facebook friends in the Google search results for some Facebook profile URLs. For example, a search for facebook marissa mayer, I see the following search snippet: Why is this showing up? As Philip notes, it doesn’t seem like Facebook is using the rich snippets markup […]
Google’s paid search results continue to evolve beyond the traditional 25-character text headline, two-line snippet of information, and URL that we’re all so used to seeing. Both the Wall Street Journal and Google Blogoscoped have details of a new Google Product Ads beta test that will bring product images and price information to paid search […]
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! Announces Common Tag: Like The Meta Keywords Tag, But Even Better Yahoo! recently announced their role in creating and supporting Common Tag, a new semantic tagging format. Yahoo! says that […]
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 Adds Change of Address To Notify Google Of Domain Change Google announced a new feature in Google Webmaster Tools named change of address. This feature allows webmasters to notify Google […]
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 Analytics To Speak Bing Soon The Google Analytics Blog announced that they are currently adding support for Bing in the search referral reports. I actually noticed Bing showing up in […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Satya Nadella Keynote At Bing Search Summit Satya Nadella, SVP of Microsoft’s Online Services Division, gave the morning keynote at the Microsoft Search Summit. It was an introduction to and tour […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Internet Explorer 6 Forces Bing As Default Search Provider It appears that Bing is overriding the default search provider set by users of Internet Explorer 6. Several IE6 users have complained […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Finally, Yahoo 360 To Be Shuttered In July More than 18 months after first saying that Yahoo 360 would close, the company has finally announced a date: July 13, 2009. Why […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Live Search? Kumo? Bing? Put Your Questions To Microsoft’s Dr. Qi Lu At SMX Advanced Dr. Qi Lu, the leader of Microsoft’s search efforts, will be keynoting on day two of […]
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: We’re Moving From Web Of Pages To Web Of Objects Yahoo held a search event today in San Francisco at which the company connected the dots among a number of […]
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 Streamlining Mobile Experiences Discontinues “Smartphone App” Until a couple of months ago, Yahoo had a range of mobile products and experiences in the market: Go, oneSearch, oneConnect and mobile web. […]
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 Employee Required To Hand Over AdWords Account Details We obtained documents on a court order, where the judge issued in the Jeremy Schoemaker case against a Google employee for trademark […]
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 York Times To Restore Links To IHT Stories In Coming Weeks Over the weekend, the New York Times was once again ridiculed for how links to its former International Herald […]
Google’s latest Searchology event happened on Tuesday, and the blog posts and tweets were flying fast and furious. If you found it all to be a little too much to keep track of, have no fear. It’s our pleasure to share this Big Recap of the most important posts and news. Search Engine Land Coverage […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: How To Optimize For Conversion In Organic Search Results In the past, SEO success was measured by rankings of target keywords; then the focus moved to traffic; today we have moved […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: MSN Overhauls City Guides, Integrates With Live Search MSN and Live Search probably don’t get enough attention in the local search field, but the reality is that there’s a solid core […]
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 AdWords Opens Up Trademarked Bidding To Most Countries BrandVerity tipped me off to news that Google has modified their AdWords trademark policy to allows bidding on trademarked terms in 190 […]
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 Starts To Leverage Latitude Location Through New Apps Google is now expanding its map-based, location-aware service Latitude beyond the the Latitude destination in new ways with a public location sharing […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.