Ask.com shuts down after over 25 years
The turn down web page says, "Jeeves’ spirit endures."
Topic: IAC
Publishers report ‘negligible’ traffic impact of Google AI Overviews
Dotdash Meredith and Ziff Davis tell shareholders that they haven't seen any significant traffic changes due to Google's AI Overviews.
U.S. vs. Google antitrust trial: Everything you need to know
The landmark court case brought by the US Justice Department could spell huge changes for Google and the future of Search.
This day in search marketing history: March 4
Sheryl Sandberg leaves Google for Facebook, plus: new GA4 homepage, Wikipedia turns PPC into SEM, goodbye Scroogled and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 9
Google Buzz launches, plus: Bing Ads outage, Google search time capsule, Adwords yellow ads return, Yahoo rejecting Microsoft and more
This day in search marketing history: February 6
AdWords announces Enhanced Campaigns, plus: more Google Shopping ads, Toolbar PageRank, GSC updates, AMP change and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 4
MicroHoo Day 4, plus: Google expands phrase match, Google Adds JSON-LD support, reconsideration requests and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 29
Google penalizes a link network, plus: paid search spending, Google warns about article directories, Yelp ratings in Google AdWords and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 17
The Google Speed Update, plus: links important for ranking, cross-device conversions, SOPA, Google Alerts and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 14
What happened when we turned off AMP, plus: Shopify's chat bug, comment spam, mobile first, missing tweets and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 11
Google's mobile intrusive interstitials penalty, plus: AdWords eases negative keyword management, Search Plus pushing Google+ and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 9
AdWords Managed Accounts got shared negative lists, plus: a Google knowledge graph hack, Google’s advertiser growth and more.
Nextdoor in new deals with directories to monetize local search
Nextdoor is trying to ramp up revenue growth as it heads toward a likely IPO.
What two big studies tell us about the state of local marketing
New research from SOCi and FreshChalk point toward best practices and reveal how most local marketers are failing to execute.
Google brings local lead generation to Google Assistant and Google Home
The company taps HomeAdvisor and Porch to provide local contractors through a multistep voice-driven interaction.
Google home service ads come to the East Coast & open up to more service categories
The local home services ad product is now available in 5 metro areas in the US.
SearchCap: Google shopping ads test, IAC buys Angie’s List & SEO predictions
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 3 predictions about the future of SEOMay 2, 2017 by Ryan Shelley What do current trends say about the direction of search, and how can you prepare? Columnist Ryan Shelley shares […]
IAC buying Angie’s List, will combine with HomeAdvisor into new public company
The two companies will create a home services lead-gen powerhouse.
Yahoo Signs Deal With Oracle To Attract New Users Via Java Installs
Yahoo hopes to repeat the success of last year's Mozilla Firefox partnership, which grew its search share in the U.S.
SearchCap: Google Car Insurance, DMCA Takedowns, Urbanspoon & Super Bowl Answers
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Zomato Buys Urbanspoon For $50 – $60 Million To Enter US Local Search Market International restaurant search provider Zomato has acquired Urbanspoon from IAC for between $50 and $60 million in […]
Zomato Buys Urbanspoon For $50 – $60 Million To Enter US Local Search Market
International restaurant search provider Zomato has acquired Urbanspoon from IAC for between $50 and $60 million in cash. Zomato was founded in India in 2008 but now operates in more than 20 countries and 130 cities globally. Urbanspoon content will be incorporated into Zomato and the Urbanspoon brand will go away after a short transition period. […]
Google Panda Two Years Later: The Real Impact Beyond Rankings & SEO Visibility
(Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of articles looking at the aftermath of Google’s Panda algorithm update, which launched February 24, 2011. To catch up, please see the first article in the series: Google Panda Two Years Later: Losers Still Losing & One Real Recovery.) Google’s Panda algorithm update, which launched two […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 6, 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: Find Content Quicker On The Go With Twitter’s New Mobile Search & Discover Upgrades Users will now be able to find more on the go as a new round of mobile […]
IAC: We Comply With Google’s Toolbar Standards
Amid industry discussion about what Google’s enforcement of new policies will mean for its AdWords distribution partners, IAC says its Mindspark toolbar company, and all of its companies, are fully in compliance with the policies currently in place. Google put new standards for its partners into place in October, issuing rules meant to bar software […]
Will A Google Crackdown On Shady Search Toolbars Hurt AVG & IAC?
Search toolbars are big business for security software company AVG and media company IAC. But could revenue from these toolbars be in danger, as Google says it is stepping up enforcement of its policies against shady behavior related to toolbar downloads? IAC’s Mindspark makes substantial revenues through search toolbars, and AVG, in September 2011, said […]
Ask CEO Doug Leeds Proclaims Search Wars “Over,” Says Yahoo Can Be Great Again
Ask.com has 3.5 percent of the search market according to comScore. Ask.com CEO Doug Leeds told Bloomberg that number may seem small but it makes his site the seventh largest in the US, “with 100 million people every month.” Rather than claiming that his search market share will continue to grow, Leeds proclaims that “the search wars […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 30, 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: Search Facebook Friends’ Photos On Bing Microsoft announced on the Bing Search blog that you can now search Bing to discover your friends’ photos within Facebook. If you activated the social […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 27, 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: Is Google’s Synonym Matching Increasing? How Searchers & Brands Can Be Both Helped & Hurt By Evolving Understanding Of Intent In the beginning, Google matched the words in a searcher’s query […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 21, 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 Webmaster Tools Adds Clarity to Traffic Alerts: What To Do If You Receive One For some time (since at least March), Google webmaster tools has been sending messages to site […]
A Letter To The FTC Regarding Search Engine Disclosure Compliance
In 2002, the US Federal Trade Commission created guidelines on how search engines should disclose paid placement and paid inclusion listings. It’s become clear to me over the past two weeks that the search engine industry has either largely forgotten these guidelines or is ignoring them. That’s why I’ve written a letter today to the […]
Google Blackens Its Logo To Protest SOPA/PIPA, While Bing & Yahoo Carry On As Usual
As promised earlier, Google has voiced its opposition to two bills currently being discussed in Congress that the company says — and countless critics around the world agree — would censor the web and hurt U.S. businesses. While some sites like Wikipedia are going black for the day on Wednesday, Google has instead chosen to cover its logo […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 12, 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: Seven Mobile SEO Myths Exposed Not too long ago, the article Mobile SEO is a Myth got a lot of people fired up about the foolish notion that mobile SEO is […]
Report: IAC Is Google’s Biggest Ad Spender, According to Kantar
Kantar Media is taking a stab at estimating advertiser spend on Google, and a new report it produced for AdAge shows IAC/InterActiveCorp spent $174 million on paid search ads in the first three quarters of the year. IAC is, of course, the parent company of Ask.com, Match.com and the Newsweek Daily Beast, among many other […]
Bing Makes Bid To Become Top Deals Destination
When Bing launched deals several months ago its partner was deal aggregator The Dealmap, which was subsequently acquired by Google. That forced Microsoft to turn elsewhere for deals and today, as a result, we’re seeing the launch of a new deals experience on mobile and the PC that pulls in content from a wide range […]
Ask.com Celebrates 15th Birthday
Ask.com the social search/Q&A engine is 15 years old. Founded in 1996 as Ask Jeeves by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen the company has launched a special social site to celebrate its birthday and review events of the past 15 years — mylast15.com. Here’s a brief recent history of Ask: July 1999: Ask Jeeves goes […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 11, 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: IAC Revises And Re-Ups Its Deal With Google IAC, the parent of Ask.com, the Daily Beast and Citysearch, today announced it has amended and extended its distribution agreement with Google through […]
IAC Revises And Re-Ups Its Deal With Google
IAC, the parent of Ask.com, the Daily Beast and Citysearch, today announced it has amended and extended its distribution agreement with Google through March 31, 2016. The deal, which involves the distribution of AdWords ads and other search-related services to IAC sites, was originally scheduled to expire at the end of 2012. Though IAC didn’t […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 6, 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: DecorMyEyes Merchant Vitaly Borker Arrested After NYT Piece On Google Rankings Just over a week ago, the New York Times introduced the world to Vitaly Borker, who boasted of being abusive […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 3, 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: Google News Dropping Sites, Reviewing Inclusion Standards Google News has recently dropped “a number” of websites that it says were not meeting the company’s quality guidelines. At the same time, the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 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: Google Improves Copyright Protection Anyone who has found that their content has been stolen (or scraped) online faces the decision of either letting it go (and using best practices that help […]