Topic: Google Glass

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 16, 2013

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 Gets New Filter Options, Search Query Reports, Appealable Ad Visiblity & Keyword Competition Values Bing Ads announced a number of updates last month, including new campaign filter options, improved […]

Across From Google I/O, Microsoft Runs The “Bing It On” Challenge

Coming out of Google I/O at Moscone Center in San Francisco yesterday, I did a double-take. Was that Microsoft pitching its “Bing It On” challenge against Google directly across the street. Yep. “Put the science back in computer science: test your Google bias inside,” read a big banner, over the entrance to the Metreon Mall, […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 8, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: AdWords Ad Group Mobile Bid Adjustments Roll-Out Starts Today Google announced that ad group-level mobile bid adjustments will start rolling out today and continue over the next couple of weeks in […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 6, 2013

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 Ignites Controversy By Using “Palestine” On Homepage Google has been at the center of heated geo-political controversy before, usually around disputed place names or borders on maps. A new controversy, […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 3, 2013

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 To Launch Ad Diagnostics Tool: Learn Why Your Ad Isn’t Running And How to Fix It Bing Ads has made several announcements about upcoming feature updates over the past […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 1, 2013

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 “Not Provided” Makes BuzzFeed Think Google’s Search Traffic To News Sites Is Down Well look at that! Search traffic to news sites has dropped over the past eight months, according […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 26, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Coming: Bing Ads Keyword Distribution Graph To Visualize Your KPI Performance It’s not live yet, but Bing Ads is teeing up a new keyword visualization tool designed to help PPC managers […]

Google Now To Make Its Way To The Google Home Page?

As Alex Chitu from the Google Operating System blog discovered, Google is testing adding Google Now functionality to the Google home page. Google Now is about getting you the information you want to see, right when you want to see it. For example, if you are in the airport, Google Now would show you the […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 19, 2013

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: Our Search Results Do Not Infect Users, “Malware Study Was Wrong” Bing has responded to the malware study conducted by AV-TEST earlier this week, claiming that Bing search results led […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 16, 2013

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 Advanced Agenda Posted – Register Now & Save with Early Bird Rates! Join the most accomplished search marketers in the world at SMX Advanced, June 11-12 in Seattle. Check out […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 11, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: AdWords Product Listing Ad CPCs Close In On Text Ads [RKG Report] Are those sweet efficiencies early adopters of AdWords product listing ads saw in their holiday numbers coming to an […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 1, 2013

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 Manage PPC Closely To A Budget A few weeks ago, at SMX West in San Jose, George Michie of RKG, was talking about the challenges of managing enterprise-level PPC […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 28, 2013

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: PPC Tablet Spending Up 112%, Smartphones Up 113% The new IgnitionOne Digital Marketing Report for Q1 finds that overall paid search spend in the U.S. was flat for the quarter, […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 11, 2013

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 Work With Four Common SEO Leadership Styles I’ve had the pleasure of working on SEO in a variety of companies both in house and, frequently, through casual advice to […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 7, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Facebook Updates Newsfeed, No Impact On Graph Search (Today) We’ve covered this morning’s changes and enhancements to Facebook Newsfeed over at Marketing Land: Facebook Newsfeed Evolving Into “The Best Personalized Newspaper” […]

Infographic: Google’s Mobile World, From Ads To Apps To Android

Mention Google and mobile together, and Google’s Android mobile operating system probably comes to mind. But Google’s mobile world is much larger than Android. It includes everything from ads, to offers, to apps like Google Now and yes, even Google Glass. The folks at WordStream have put together an excellent infographic covering 20 different ways that […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 5, 2013

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’s Matt Cutts Awarded Patent On Detecting Hidden Text & Hidden Links A new Google patent was awarded today named Systems and methods for detecting hidden text and hidden links. The […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 27, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Gmail Search Field Trial Adds Calendar Results To Google Search Google keeps increasing the amount of information it will show from your Gmail account within your Google searches, if you’re part […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 22, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: After Penalizing Interflora & UK Newspapers, Google Warns Against Advertorials After penalizing Interflora and UK newspapers Google has issued a stern warning that selling links on sites that pass PageRank can […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 16, 2013

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: PLAs Drove 28% Of Google Non-Brand Ad Clicks In Q4 Google Product Listing Ads generated 28% of Google non-brand clicks in Q4 according to RKG’s latest Digital Marketing Report released […]

Google, Mobile Search And The Paradox Of Competition

How much does Google figure into the “future of search,” whose advances will largely be determined by mobile and non-traditional devices? That’s a hard question to answer. On the one hand Google is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) brand in the world, with almost unlimited resources to develop technology or buy companies […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 20, 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: Google’s Policing Of Duplicate Ad Sitelinks Extensions Misses Apparent Violator — Itself AdWords advertisers know that Google has plenty of policies by which you must abide, like Ad Sitelinks extensions can’t […]

Grokr & Expect Labs: More Mobile Search Insurgents Appear

Just when you thought competition in search was effectively over, it starts to get interesting again. Over the past two weeks I’ve spoken to no less than four companies that say they are trying to reinvent “mobile search” for smartphones or tablets. I would almost guarantee there are more out there as well. These companies […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 26, 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: Auto Industry Benefiting From Growth In Mobile Search Approximately one-third of all search traffic for auto industry related terms comes from mobile devices. This underscores why it is critical for auto […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 17, 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: Firefox 14 Now Encrypts Google Searches, But Search Terms Still Will “Leak” Out Firefox 14 has officially launched today, which means all Google searches are encrypted by default. However, due to […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 6, 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: Twitter Upgrades Search With Autocomplete & New Filters Twitter’s search tool has just undergone a slight makeover with a number of new features that should help get users to the information […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 3, 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: Google To Discontinue iGoogle, Once Google’s Fastest Growing Product Google announced they are shutting down several products as part of their “summer spring cleaning” efforts. One of those products is iGoogle, […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 27, 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: Google Introduces Redesigned Mobile Search Experience, “Google Now” And Siri-Like Assistant Buried among the sexy hardware announcements and hair-raising Google Glass demo this morning were some fairly radical changes to the […]

Google Introduces Redesigned Mobile Search Experience, “Google Now” And Siri-Like Assistant

Buried among the sexy hardware announcements and hair-raising Google Glass demo this morning were some fairly radical changes to the Google search experience for mobile devices. To date Google has been compensating for the awkwardness of the PC SERP on smartphones with voice search and other marginal “fixes.” Today it took a potentially major step […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 19, 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: Bing Ties Yellow Pages Sites For Most Accurate Local Data In April I wrote about a local data accuracy study preformed by a company called Implied Intelligence. The company offers data […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 8, 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: Google’s May Updates: Inorganic Backlinks, Page Titles, Fresh Results & More Google’s latest batch of search quality updates is online, and offers some insight into a variety of search- and SEO-related […]