This day in search marketing history: January 20
Matt Cutts forks guest blogging, plus: Semrush buys Backlinko, ranking factor study, a Google search quality rater interview and more.
Topic: I Have a Dream
This day in search marketing history: January 16
Google explains crawl budget, plus: website outages and blackouts the right way, Google doing 1 trillion searches, and more.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 20, 2014
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Matt Cutts: “Stick A Fork In It, Guest Blogging Is Done” Google and Matt Cutts, in particular, has made a number of statements about guest blogging over the past year as […]
Martin Luther King, Jr. Google Logo Marks Holiday Honoring Civil Rights Hero
Today’s Google logo marks Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a federal holiday recognizing the civil rights leader. The illustrated logo includes a profile of Martin Luther King, Jr., images of doves to represent King’s 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, and the Lincoln Memorial where King made his iconic “I Have a Dream” civil rights speech. Michigan […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 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: Google Gets 5,000 Reconsideration Requests Per Week Google’s head of search spam Matt Cutts announced in a recent video answer that Google receives about 5,000 reconsideration request per week through Google […]
Google Recognizes 50th Anniversary Of Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” Speech
Today’s Google logo is a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream Speech” that was given on August 28, 1963 to a crowd of 250,000 from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. King’s speech was a call for racial justice and harmony, and became a defining moment in America’s civil rights […]
Google’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Logo
Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States, a Federal holiday where we mark the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. The holiday is always observed on the third Monday of January each year, which is around the time of his birthday, on January 15th. To remember his life, contributions and the […]
The Keith Haring Google Logo
To celebrate the life of the late Keith Haring, Google has a special Google Logo (aka Doodle). Today would be his 54th birthday. He died at the young age of 31. But he was well known for his graffiti art and much of his later years he was involved in activism and awareness about AIDS. […]
Google Zipper Logo Celebrates Birthday Of Inventor Gideon Sundback
When you visit Google on April 24th, you will see a huge zipper down the middle of the Google of the logo. The logo is to commemorate the birthday of Gideon Sundback, the man who invented the zipper. He was born 132 years ago on April 24, 1880 in Sweden. In 1905 he immigrated to […]
Google Grew Their Own Earth Day Logo
Google has a special Earth Day logo that flips through the various cycles of the growth of flowers and plants over time. In fact, A Google Doodler named Jen planted and grew the logo, taking pictures over time, which made up today’s Earth Day logo for Google. Here is a video of the logo in […]
Eadweard J. Muybridge 182nd Birthday Google Logo
Google is honoring the 182nd birthday of Eadweard J. Muybridge, the photographer most well known for capturing motion in his works. He in fact created a device named the zoopraxiscope, which was used for projecting motion pictures. Google’s logo represents one film strip almost everyone recognizes from history books, the Galloping horse. Here is a […]
Akira Yoshizawa Google Logo – Modern Origami
Today’s special Google logo is to honor the contributions of Akira Yoshizawa the individual credited with creating modern origami. The Google logo is made up of true origami, in fact, Google explained how they did it and how you can also make the origami on the Google blog. Akira Yoshizawa was born today 101 years […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 16, 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: How To Blackout Your Site (For SOPA/PIPA) Without Hurting SEO A number of websites are (or were) planning to “go black” this week while the U.S. Congress discusses issues related to […]
Google Honors Martin Luther King Jr. Day With “I Have A Dream” Logo
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the U.S., and Google is marking the day with a special logo that includes a couple lines from his famous “I have a dream” speech. King’s birthday was yesterday — he would’ve been 83 years old — but the U.S. celebrates his holiday on the third Monday […]