Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Top 10 local search insights of 2016Dec 5, 2016 by Wesley Young Columnist Wesley Young of the Local Search Association looks back at 2016 to find the top 10 insights that […]
Software approach would make Cortana available from the lock screen and provide other smart-home features.
Google recently launched sentence-compression algorithms to help surface the best answers for your questions from publisher content across the 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: The Google Search Console is undergoing infrastructure updatesNov 10, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Due to the infrastructure updates, some of the Google Search Console reports may be wrong or buggy. Boost […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: For e-commerce success: SEO > aestheticsNov 7, 2016 by Julian Connors For those in the online retail space, columnist Julian Connors shares his advice for making your e-commerce website SEO-friendly. 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: For answering questions, Google Home bests Amazon Echo & AlexaNov 3, 2016 by Danny Sullivan If you’ve always wanted someone around the house to answer all the questions you have during […]
If you've always wanted someone around the house to answer all the questions you have during the course of your day, that someone is a something -- Google Home.
It turns out Google's new hands-free voice-based assistant has a way to let users click to the answers it gets from publishers. That's via the companion app.
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 scary how many ways SEO can go wrongOct 27, 2016 by Patrick Stox In search engine optimization, sometimes even small errors can have a large and costly impact. Columnist Patrick […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Merkle: After big increases in mobile inventory last year, paid search growth slows a bit in Q3Oct 26, 2016 by Ginny Marvin Still, mobile spend increased significantly year over year, and […]
Want to know about California’s Proposition 63, a measure to control gun ammunition sales and large magazines, which is on the state ballot this month? Google has the answer. It’s a “deceptive ballot initiative that will criminalize millions of law-abiding Californians.” So much for balanced search results. Google presents that answer at the very top of its […]
Will Google ever give sites credit for brand name mentions or citations without an actual link? Gary Illyes from Google said Google's UX team is looking at ways to measure brand awareness.
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 My Business testing advanced verification process for spammy map categoriesOct 5, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Google tests a new spam prevention technique for local results called advanced verification. It uses […]
Ever wonder how Google Home will source, aka link to, the website it pulls the answer for your queries from? This video shows it off.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Using search marketing to amplify TV buys: SMX East 2016Oct 4, 2016 by Erin Everhart Columnist Erin Everhart provides key takeaways on a session from SMX East 2016 detailing the relationship […]
She seeks to be a 'companion' that is 'always there but never in the way.'
Having won on desktop and mobile, Google now wants to succeed in an entire new area: hands-free search, especially within homes.
The virtual assistant revolution is ushering in the next era of 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: Google Search Console now lets you group your sites together with property setsMay 23, 2016 by Barry Schwartz One of the most asked-for Google Search Console feature requests is now live. […]
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 beta testing a real-time indexing APIMay 19, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Can Google find content even faster than it does now? Google thinks so, and they are beta testing a […]
Voice search growing as virtual assistant market heats up.
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 Google assistant: A new search platform, rather than a gadget or an app May 18, 2016 by Danny Sullivan Think of it as Google 2.0. Google assistant is Google’s search […]
Think of it as Google 2.0. Google assistant is Google's search smarts put into anything, no keyboard needed & conversations welcomed.