Tailor Your Feed: The Google Discover fan-out that surfaces niche sites
Here's why it opens a third visibility path for small sites, beyond implicit affinity and the Follow button.
Topic: Google Labs
Google can book your flights, hotels and dinner reservations using AI
Plus, Google added new travel AI tools with Canvas and ways to find deals.
Google’s new AI tool touts creating optimized content in a scalable way
Google recently promoted one of its new AI tools named Opal and the language used has SEOs and content creators scratching their heads.
Exploring the real risk AI brings to the internet (and SEO with it)
As AI-generated content floods the web, what happens when humans stop being the primary creators or consumers online? A human look at Google, SEO, and the “Dead Internet Theory.”
Google Search Live is live in U.S., with voice and camera AI mode
Google Search Live lets users talk with Search and share camera views for AI-powered answers, context, and links in real time.
What’s next for SEO in the generative AI era
In this exclusive Search Engine Land discussion, four top SEO experts will discuss how to survive and thrive as search shifts in the AI era.
The Great Decoupling of search and the birth of the agentic web
What happens when being found no longer means being visited? The Great Decoupling is here – and it’s changing the web forever.
Google tests Audio Overviews for Search results
Google's Audio Overviews test offers AI-generated spoken summaries and related links directly in results for hands-free, on-the-go browsing.
Google AI Mode lets you ask questions with images
Google added multimodal capabilities to AI Mode, and expanded access beyond Google One AI Premium subscribers.
Google AI Overviews visibility drops, only shows for 15% of queries
Google's AI Overviews (when it was known as Search Generative Experience in Labs) once showed 84% of the time.
The new Google Search Generative Experience: Here’s what it looks like
AI-generated answers will appear above Google's search results listings. Google will cite the websites it used to help generate the answer.
This day in search marketing history: January 8
A shift from keyword research to intent research, plus: search engines taking data from SEOs, PPC spending/budget cuts, and more.
Google’s Recent Domain Registrations: Labs, Screenwise & AdWords
Google has been busy registering several domain names in recent days that could be signs of things to come. A couple seem to relate to some kind of lab-related project(s), some are AdWords-related and others are related to the Google Screenwise program that I wrote about earlier this week. Here’s a look at at least […]
Eric Schmidt Tells Congress That Google Doesn’t Have ‘Separate Products & Services’
Google’s universal search results — things like videos, news, images and local business listings — aren’t “separate ‘products and services’ from Google,” according to company chairman Eric Schmidt. He makes that claim, and many others, in a lengthy written response submitted today to the U.S. Senate’s antitrust subcommittee — a required follow-up to Schmidt’s in-person […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 14, 2011
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 Shuttering Buzz In Favor Of Google+; Farewell To Labs Buzz was a great learning experience, says Google, but in a few weeks it will be shut down and all such […]
Google Shuttering Buzz In Favor Of Google+; Farewell To Labs
Buzz was a great learning experience, says Google, but in a few weeks it will be shut down and all such efforts will be focused on Google Plus. The move will likely come as no surprise to Google-watchers, who noted that Buzz integration with Google+ was minimal. Additionally, the Google Labs page, as previously announced, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 26, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: The Relationship Between Enterprise SEO & PPC: SMX East Recap During a whirlwind stay at SMX East, I had the enviable opportunity to speak at length about two of my all-time […]
Google’s Page Speed Tool & Public Data Explorer Survive Latest Labs Cuts; Google Body Doesn’t
Several more Google Labs projects have learned their fate as the company continues to close down Google Labs as part of a larger streamlining effort. Here’s a look at the latest group of decisions. Google Labs Survivors Page Speed Online – A tool that launched earlier this year, Page Speed analyzes a given URL, gives […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 6, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: This Week On Google+: Suggested Users, API Delays & Measuring Google+ Influence! Over two months in, Google+ has continued to make many changes to the fledgling social site. Here is what’s […]
Google Shutters Fast Flip, Sidewiki, Aardvark, Subscribed Links & More Google Labs Projects
Google has just announced the closure of several well-known products, including Fast Flip, Sidewiki, Aardvark and Subscribed Links. Some of these are part of the ongoing purge of Google Labs products, while others that are being shut down were not part of Labs. And Google has also announced that other Google Labs projects have “graduated” […]
Ask.com Opens Up Its Human Q&A Community, Steps Further Away From Search
After more than a year in beta, Ask.com today opened the doors on its community-based question-and-answer product. It positions Ask as much less search-oriented, and much more Q&A based — not unlike its original incarnation in the 1990s. The Q&A site had been available in beta to a limited number of users since last July […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 30, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Microsoft Tightens Relevancy And Quality Requirements In AdCenter Microsoft has announced changes that tighten up its adCenter Relevancy and Quality policy for ads served to the U.S. and Canada. Changes are […]
Google Decides Fate Of More Than Half Of Labs Projects; Correlate Survives, Sets Doesn’t
Another week, another round of updates from the slow phase-out of Google Labs. This week, good news for fans of one keyword-related tool, but bad news for fans of another.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 25, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Think Global — But Make Your Ads Local Find out how to maximize your performance in international PPC campaigns – watch this webcast: “Global Domination through PPC: What you MUST know […]
Google Squared, News Timeline Get Added To Google’s Chopping Block
The slow demise of Google Labs has put a few more Google tools/services on the chopping block, including Google Squared and Google News Timeline. Those are two of the most recent experiments that Google has listed for shutdown on the Google Labs home page. Google Squared Google Squared launched in 2009 and offered search results […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 10, 2011
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 Gives Image Search A New Look Yahoo’s Image Search is sporting a fresh look today that presents the image results in a cleaner, more organized fashion. Do a search and […]
Google Starts Choosing Winners & Losers Among Its Lab Projects
Three weeks have passed since the surprising news that Google would be shutting down Google Labs, its playground where experimental product ideas went to live or die. We now know a little more about which ones will live and which won’t. Over the past several days, Google has been updating GoogleLabs.com with the status and […]
After Six Years, Google Drops Support For Toolbar On Firefox
Google has announced the end of supporting the Google Toolbar for Firefox. Google said the Google Toolbar works in versions of Firefox 4 or younger, but not the new version 5 of Firefox. Google explained, “many features that were once offered by Google Toolbar for Firefox are now already built right into the browser.” So […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 20, 2011
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 Labs To Be Closed As Larry Page’s Product Streamlining Continues Is there any doubt that things at Google have changed under new CEO Larry Page? Today the company has announced […]
Google Labs To Be Closed As Larry Page’s Product Streamlining Continues
Is there any doubt that things at Google have changed under new CEO Larry Page? Today the company has announced the impending closure of Google Labs, its experimental playground where many popular Google products were born. In its announcement, Google says the decision to shut down Google Labs is part of its new focus on […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 7, 2011
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 Realtime Search & The Aftermath Of The Google-Twitter Split Last Friday, Twitter quietly shutdown its “firehose” of tweet data that was being piped to Google. Like a gas station no […]
Google Maps For Android Lets You Download Maps For Offline Use
The Google Blog announced that you can now download maps on your Android device so that you can access maps and directions even without a data connection. The feature is a Google Labs feature currently available for Android users who are willing to experiment with new, beta features. It is called “Download map area” and […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 31, 2011
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 Launches Page Speed Analyzer In Labs Google’s fixation on page speed continues with today’s addition of Page Speed, a new analysis tool in Google Labs. The tool analyzes any URL, […]
Google Launches Page Speed Analyzer In Labs
Google’s fixation on page speed continues with today’s addition of Page Speed, a new analysis tool in Google Labs. The tool analyzes any URL, gives it a grade (on a score of 0-100) and then offers a potentially long list of ways to make the page faster. The suggestions are divided into High, Medium and […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 30, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Meet +1: Google’s Answer To The Facebook Like Button Nearly a year after Facebook Like buttons spread out across the web, Google has announced its own rival, the +1 button. It […]
Google Talk Guru Brings Search To Instant Messaging
Google Talk Guru is a new experiment that tries to turn the instant messaging interface into a search engine of sorts. It was just added to Google Labs today, and is very much a lab-level project. There are a very limited number of search commands that currently work in Google Talk Guru. As you can […]
Study Asks, Can You Trust Google’s Personalized Search Results?
New research designed to analyze Google’s personalized search results and make the process the search engine uses more transparent has generated interesting and controversial findings. The study examined a number of commonly held notions about personalization, including the idea that personalization is subtle, that it can often surface more long-tail results, and that personalization is […]
Google’s Norvig: After The Top Result, There’s No Right Or Wrong
In light of this week’s news that Google Wave has crashed, plus Danny Sullivan’s follow up piece about Google’s other failures, it’s somewhat ironic that Slate magazine this week published an interview with Peter Norvig about … being wrong. Norvig is Google’s Director of Research and has been with the company for almost ten years […]
Let’s Celebrate Google’s Biggest Failures!
“We celebrate our failures,” Google CEO Eric Schmidt said yesterday when speaking at the Techonomy confernce, in response to the surprise closure of his company’s Google Wave product. When it comes to failures, Google’s celebrating more than you might realize.
Google Testing A Twitter Follower Finder Tool
A month ago in this space, I wrote up a a fairly lengthy article — How To Find The Right People To Follow On Twitter — that listed numerous tools and tips for finding the the right Twitter users to follow. Google, which wants to be involved in pretty much any search-related activity you do, […]