This day in search marketing history: February 20
Google stops supporting meta news keywords tag, plus: Google Ads tweaks mobile speed score algorithm, Voluntary Code of Practice and more
Topic: Google Scholar
Google’s podcast knowledge panel update: Your questions answered
If your podcast does not have a knowledge panel yet, make sure your RSS feed adheres to Google's rules
Google promotes Prabhakar Raghavan to lead Search, replacing Ben Gomes
Jerry Dischler becomes the new head of Google Ads, Gomes takes over Google Education, while Google veteran Jen Fitzpatrick takes on engineering.
A deep dive into BERT: How BERT launched a rocket into natural language understanding
Get the full backstory of the algorithm's evolution and how BERT has improved human language understanding for machines.
Google’s March 2019 core quality update: Stories of recovery
Here's an early look at a nutrition, small e-commerce and larger informational site after the March update. Each made changes based on clues from Google’s Quality Raters’ Guidelines; all saw gains in traffic after the update.
SearchCap: Google back on Apple, Bing search for business & Bing ads with LinkedIn
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Apple switches back to Google search results for iOS & MacSep 25, 2017 by Barry Schwartz After serving Bing web search results in iOS and Mac for a few years, Apple […]
Wall Street Journal’s Google traffic drops 44% after pulling out of First Click Free
Despite less traffic, paid subscriber conversion said to be up fourfold.
Google Assistant comes to iPhone, adds alerts, hands-free calling & more
Google's virtual assistant gains a number of new features and expands to Apple's iPhone as competition for Siri & Cortana.
SearchCap: Google forecasting, SEO analytics & RFPs
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 premium-level Ad Grants program no longer accepting applicationsSep 1, 2016 by Ginny Marvin The Grantspro program offers non-profits up to $10,000 per month in search advertising grants. Want better data […]
Google Patent Search Upgrade Adds Prior Art & Scholar Results
Google makes it easier for users to find patents with the new Patent Search. Mostly because of Google's efforts behind the PTO’s Patent Quality Initiative.
SearchCap: AdWords Currency Conversions, Bing Image Widget, & Shopping Campaigns
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 Shopping Campaigns Countdown Is On: Transition Surprises And Tips From The Experts Tick tock, we’re in the final countdown before the big transition from traditional product listing ad (PLA) […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 20, 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: Feel Free To Use The Disavow Tool Even Without A Manual Action In a new video answer today from Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, he says […]
Google Scholar Library: Add Scholar Search Results To Your Library
Google announced a new feature within Google Scholar named “My Library.” This new section lets you save articles right from the search page, organize them by topic, and search full-text within your library to find what you are looking for. To enable this feature, you need to click on the “My Library” link on the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 17, 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: Stock Images Do Not Impact Search Engine Rankings Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, said in a recent video that using stock images from a stock image […]
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, October 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: 6 Underrated Content Marketing Assets For B2B SEO One of the biggest obstacles to B2B search engine optimization is developing new content marketing assets for targeting important keywords and acquiring link […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 9, 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 SEO Guide On A/B & Multivariate Testing Google posted their official word on how you can conducting web site testing using A/B testing or multivariate testing and stay clear of […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 11, 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, Bing Hit All-Time Highs In June Search Market Share [comScore] Google and Bing have reached all-time high levels, while Yahoo reached an all-time low in the latest comScore search market […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 24, 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 Asked To Take Down Over 1.2 Million URLs Last Month From Search Results Google announced they have enhanced the Google Transparency Report to include the removal requests to take down […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 14, 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: Smartphone Bot Case Study: The Google Smartphone Bot On Holiday In Australia While Google’s new smartphone bot has been announced, it does not appear to be widely deployed yet; at least […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 13, 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 Buys Clever Sense: An Answer To Siri? As is being widely reported Google has bought startup Clever Sense, which earlier this year launched the local-mobile recommendations app Alfred. Alfred is […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 2, 2010
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 Search Assist Adds Real Real Time Queries The Yahoo Search Blog announced that Yahoo Search Assist, the as you type search suggestion feature, now shows real time information as you […]
Google Scholar Adds Cited By Search
The Google Scholar Blog announced a new feature where you can search for citations of a search result, or paper. Google calls this “searching within this set.” To try it out, go to Google Scholar, search for something and click on “Cited by.” Here is a picture: Gary Price does a more detail analysis of […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 10, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Growing On Google, People Asking “How Do I Delete My Facebook Account” When working on a presentation about search today, I did a “how do I” search on Google to see […]
Meet The New Google Look & Its Colorful, Useful “Search Options” Column
After months of testing, Google is releasing a new look-and-feel for its search results today, a three column design that provides a permanent menu of search options and tools to help searchers refine their queries. Google also gains a freshly-updated logo along the way. The new user interface — UI for the tech crowd — […]
Josh Cohen Of Google News On Paywalls, Partnerships & Working With Publishers
Want to do a paywall with no “first click free?” That’s fine with Google, says business product manager Josh Cohen. Want to do micropayments? Google will be “flexible” in considering support of new business models like this. But if you charge, expect less traffic, and also expect that your competitors will be “ecstatic” to pick […]
Live Blogging: Sergey Brin & Eric Schmidt Talking Google With The Press
Google cofounder Sergey Brin and Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke today to a small gathering of reporters at Google’s New York office. Below, a live blog of the briefing. Note that I’ve tidied this up a bit since the briefing happened at 11am Eastern time. You’ll still find plenty of typos. I may try to […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 10, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 5, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
The Long Road To The Debate Over “White Hat Cloaking”
I really hate arguments over cloaking. Like really hate them. But Rand Fishkin recently did a chart outlining the degrees of "safeness" to cloaking that in turn riled up Google’s Matt Cutts in comments there. No doubt others at search engines also dislike the idea that any cloaking is "white hat." So I wanted to […]
Microsoft Burns Book Search – Lacks “High Commercial Intent”
Wow. Earlier this month, I heard Microsoft execs highlight Live Search Books as a key advance they were doing in search. Today, news that the site along with Live Search Academic are being closed next week, since they lack the “high consumer intent” that Microsoft is now focusing on. So much for trying to seem […]
First Click Free: Accessing Subscription-Based Articles For Free Via Google News
The Google News Blog wrote about the First click free program that allows publishers to let readers pass registration and subscription barriers, if they come from Google News. I am sure you have seen this in action. You see an article, you click on it from Google News and you are able to read the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 10, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Scholarly Science Search Tools Explored
Gary Price has complied a comprehensive list of science search tools that are available via the internet. He explored several science search tools including Scirus, Live Search Academic, Google Scholar, Scitopia, Global Science Gateway and others.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 4, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google To Integrate News With Web Search Results
Soon, Google will quietly begin changing the way it blends news results and standard web search results, co-mingling links to news sources and web pages if your search terms are relevant to current news events. The new format will replace OneBox news links that have normally appeared at the top of a search result page, […]
Dissecting Microsoft Slams At Google As Copyright Infringer
Last October, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer gave us a taste of how Microsoft was going to position Google as a copyright leech. Today, Microsoft launched a full-out assault on the company. Google deserves some of this, no doubt. But the idea as Microsoft as some altruistic copyright savior deserves some critical analysis, as well. Below, I’ll dissect Microsoft’s slams against […]
YADAC: Yet Another Debate About Cloaking Happens Again
Sigh. Double sigh. Triple sigh. I guess now that the SEO industry has had the required twice-yearly debate about the reputation of SEO, it’s time to do the go round about cloaking once again. A quick word about cloaking has Google’s Matt Cutts trying to clarify concerns that Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped has been […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Feb. 20, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
New Stats On Google’s Products Show Video & Blog Increasing While Froogle & Directory Decreasing
The Compete.com Blog released new data showing us the trends of Google’s various properties. Grouped in the “super performers” are Google Video, Google Blog Search, Google Scholar (up and down) and Google Desktop. In the standard performers included Google Maps, Google Toolbar, Google Book Search, Google Web Search, Google Image Search, and Google News Search. […]