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Topic: Hollywood
Crawl data analysis of 2 billion links from 90 million domains offer glimpse into today’s web
Data analysis reveals the distribution of PageRank is highly right-skewed meaning the majority of hosts have very low PageRank.
Omar Sharif Google doodle honors actor from classics like ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ & ‘Doctor Zhivago’
The artwork for today's doodle was created by doodler Sophie Diao.
Katy Jurado Google doodle marks 94th birthday of film star from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema
Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Jurado won a Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe Award for her role in the 1952 Hollywood classic "High Noon."
Marlene Dietrich Google doodle honors the legendary actress’s career
Actress, humanitarian, star and icon gets a Google logo on what would have been her 116th birthday.
Dolores del Río Google doodle celebrates iconic film star from Golden Age of Mexican cinema
Del Río is credited with being the first Latin American actress to become a major Hollywood film star.
Oskar Fischinger Google doodle honoring the filmmaker & visual artist doubles as musical instrument
To mark what would have been Fischinger's 117th birthday, Google has designed a digital instrument that lets users create musical compositions.
SearchCap: Attribution modeling, AdWords Budgets & personalizing local content
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Rethinking today’s attribution problem in digital marketing Oct 12, 2016 by Christi Olson Proper attribution modeling is one of the biggest challenges facing marketers today. Columnist Christi Olson discusses the common […]
Hedy Lamarr Google Doodle Honors Hollywood Star Who Invented “Frequency Hopping” Technology
Known as the most beautiful woman in the world, Lamarr created the technology that laid the groundwork for Bluetooth, GPS and WiFi.
Everything’s Not Awesome: Google News Spammed With Pitch To Watch “The Lego Movie” For Free
It’s definitely not what you expect to make the top of a Google News section, a crappy article promising that you can watch The Lego Movie online for free, not when the film is still in theaters. But that’s what Google is delivering up. The screenshot above shows the situation, which reader Vishvesh Agrawal of […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 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: Dear Google Rivals: Do These New Proposals Solve Your Antitrust Concerns? Love, The EU Three years into its investigation of Google over antitrust issues, the European Union took another step closer […]
Edith Head Gets Her Own Google Logo Celebrating Her Career As One Of Hollywood’s Most Famous Designers
Today’s Google logo celebrates the triumphant career of Hollywood costume designer Edith Head on the occasion of her 116th birthday. Born Edith Posener in San Bernardino, California, Head would catch her first big break as a Paramount Pictures costume sketch artist in 1924 after working as an art teacher at Bishop’s School in La Jolla. […]
Google Celebrates The Iconic Work Of Graphic Designer Saul Bass
Google is celebrating the work of graphic designer Saul Bass today, giving him his very own Doodle video complete with a musical composition by composer Dave Brubeck. Born in New York City on May 8, 1920, Saul Bass made a career creating iconic film posters, title sequences and corporate logos. Many know Bass’s work from […]
The Big Ask Of 2012: Do You Search For Team Kstew Or Rpatz?
Ask.com’s 100 million users remain almost as loyal as Twihards, prompting us to ask if searchers are on Team Jeeves or Team Diller when putting in their queries. For the 2012 installment of the series in hot searches, Ask added a new twist to the searcher saga, layering in a thicker plot and seeking a […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 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: Consider The Ends To Justify The Means In PPC “En toute chose il faut considérer la fin.” (In everything one must consider the end) – Jean de La Fontaine, 1668 It […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 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: Should You Ban A Country From Visiting Your Website? Website owners often put a website online and let the entire world access its contents. Essentially, they are claiming to service the […]
Google To Open Office In Beverly Hills
The Hollywood Reported reports Google is opening an office in Beverly Hills, California. Google is opening a 13,465-square-foot office, which will be the space used by Google’s entertainment division. That includes some of the YouTube staff and others involved in that area. The location is at 331 Foothill Rd, Beverly Hills and the move is […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 23, 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: Forrester Research Publishes 1st Report On Enterprise SEO Automation Tools Today, Forrester Research unveiled a 6- page report on the utility of SEO automation tools for use in larger enterprises. Six […]
Oscars Golden Touch: Searches On Yahoo Spiking
With Hollywood’s golden night fast approaching, buzz is building in Yahoo! search for the 83rd annual Academy Awards set to air this Sunday, February 27, 2011. We’ll know soon enough if Yahoo! users are any better at predicting winners than Bing or Google Trends. According to Yahoo!: Searches for “when are the Oscars” are spiking […]
Report: Google’s YouTube To Offer Streaming Pay-Per-View Hollywood Rentals
Google plans pay-per-view films from the Financial Times reports Google is in talks with several major Hollywood film companies to offer a pay-per-view service of their films. Reports say that the streaming movie service from YouTube will bring these movies to online consumers at about $5 per movie. The movies would not download to the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 18, 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: Search Engine Market Share Steady In July: Hitwise There’s little change in the latest search engine market share numbers from Experian Hitwise. The company announced its stats for July 2010 today, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 23, 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: Viacom Loses Google Lawsuit Google has won a “motion for summary judgment” in its bitterly fought lawsuit with Viacom over YouTube. Viacom had sued YouTube/Google for copyright infringement surrounding the posting […]
Bing Entertainment Unwrapped: Music, Movies, Games & TV
Per my previous post, Bing To Rollout Red Carpet In Hollywood Along With New Features, Danny Sullivan and I are liveblogging from Hollywood, where Bing is officially unveiling its new entertainment features. The official Bing blog has all the details about the new features in all aspects of entertainment: Music, Movies, TV listings and gaming […]
Bing Paparazzi Photos
Opening remarks by Yusef Medhi: Part II of the Bing Entertainment event set up for discussion session about the future of entertainment in search with Hollywood hitters: Joseph Gordon Leavitt & Kathryn Bigelow share their thoughts: [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojk2xzS2cq4[/youtube]
Live From Hollywood: It’s Bing & Ryan Seacrest
Bing’s holding a big press event here tonight in Hollywood, California. We’re live on the red carpet. OK, no red carpet, but we do have Ryan Seacrest hosting the event. Sit back and stay tuned as we live blog what’s to come. NOTE: See our Bing Entertainment, Unwrapped: Music, Movies, Games & TV story which […]
Who Does Twitter Love? Breaking Down The Twitter Suggested Users List
In some ways, it’s the Who’s Who of Twitter — the Twitter Suggested Users list. These are the 241 people Twitter currently suggests that new people should follow. Below, a look at who makes it by categories, such as media or sports. Who’s getting Twitter’s love (such as the New York Times) and who’s not […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 17, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
The “Is Google Too Powerful” Question Raised Once Again
Is Google Too Powerful? from BusinessWeek is a fresh look at an old topic on Google’s continued growth and power. A key part of the BusinessWeek’s article: Googlezon, GoogleWorld, just plain Google—whatever you call it, it’s scaring the wits out of everyone from the power lunchers of Hollywood to Madison Avenue ad moguls to Silicon […]
Looking At Microsoft’s Continued Long Game In Search
Hooked on Google from the San Jose Mercury News revisits a theme from Microsoft that I’ve reported to readers over the years. That’s how Microsoft’s failure to beat Google in search — despite millions in spending — gets the "it’s early days, give us time" defense from Microsoft. The defense is partially true, but it […]