Google AdMob updates privacy terms as more U.S. state laws take effect
New state privacy laws in 2025 may increase Restricted Data Processing traffic on Google AdMob, impacting ad targeting and performance for advertisers.
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This day in search marketing history: March 12
Go inside a Google search quality meeting, plus: Google core search ranking algorithm update, how Google prices and ranks ads and more.
Google Search outage causing major issues with search quality and indexing
Google is working on resolving the issue and we expect search quality to return to normal soon.
Google to ease ad restrictions for abortion pill providers
The label will make it easier for at-home abortion providers to distinguish themselves from other services that try to discourage the practice.
I wanna get on the good foot; Monday’s daily brief
Plus, how to plan content that actually ranks and Google Podcasts’ new requirements.
Nearly 50 states’ attorneys general join in antitrust investigation of Google
Facebook is also being investigated in another multistate action lead by New York.
YouTube reports 224% jump in refugee-related searches since start of elections
According to YouTube, refugee, immigration, gun control, economy and health care related searches have risen during the past year.
SearchCap: Republican Debate & Google, AdWords iOS App & Adobe Report
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: New US Presidential “Candidate Cards” Are A Disaster For Google’s Search QualityJan 28, 2016 by Danny Sullivan An experiment to allow US presidential candidates to have an unprecedented guaranteed spot at […]
SearchCap: AdGooroo Launches New Tool, Google’s Candidate Cards & Today’s Google Doodle
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: AdGooroo Launches Competitive Insights For Local Paid Search Jan 26, 2016 by Ginny Marvin The new tool provides keyword, ad copy and budget insights at a city level. Google Introduces Candidate […]
Google’s Natural Language Search Gets Smarter
Google is now smarter at understanding queries that include superlatives and times, as well as more complicated questions.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 1, 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: Five Years Later, Ex-Farecast Founder Asks “What Is Bing Doing?” Oren Etzioni, the founder of Farecast who sold it to Microsoft in 2008, says he’s “disappointed” with Bing’s development and “expected […]
Study: Delaware Least Likely State To Use Google, While Yahoo Is More Popular In Southern & Midwest States
Using data from more than 35 million search queries performed in 2012, SEO company WebpageFX set out to determine search engine market share by state for Google, Bing and Yahoo. According to their study, Google dominates across the country, taking 70 percent or more of search engine market share in nearly all 50 states. Delaware […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 15, 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 Introduces Targeting Improvements To Help More Marketers “Get Local” For Holidays While this will be a true multi-channel holiday, the overwhelming number of actual purchases (north of 90 percent) will […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 10, 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 Removed The Pirate Bay From Instant Search TorrentFreak reports Google has removed The Pirate Bay from showing up in Google’s search suggestions within Google Instant Search. Google Instant Search will […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 20, 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: “Googler Killer”, Cuil, Patent Applications Acquired By Google Googler Killer, Cuil, which launched in June 2008 and went defunct in September 2010, have had their patent applications acquired by Google. Bill […]
Did Super Bowl Advertisers Take Advantage of Search Interest?
Over the past couple of days, numerous stats and figures have been published about how Super Bowl advertisers took advantage (or not) of social media this year. But commercials also drive people to search engines, which in turn (when things go right) can lead potential customers to advertiser web sites where rather than talk about […]
How Rick Santorum Is Making His “Google Problem” Worse
US Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum made a surprise leap ahead to practically tie Mitt Romney in yesterday’s Iowa caucus results. Now people are searching to find out more about him and discovering THAT result which makes comedy show hosts like Jon Stewart giggle. But rather than blame Google (or Bing), as Santorum has in the […]
The Robert Noyce Google Microchip Logo
Today is the 84th birthday of Robert Noyce, “the Mayor of Silicon Valley.” To celebrate his birthday, about 21 years after his passing, Google has a logo for one of the inventors of the microchip, also known as integrated circuit — Robert Noyce. Robert Noyce founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968, two […]
Searching For Answers On Ask.com In 2011
It’s been about a year since Ask went back to its roots as a full Q&A site and at the end of last year, we offered up its most popular questions of 2010. In that story from 2010, note that Ask.com claimed 90 million users at that time, and in this year’s followup release of […]
Live Blog: Google’s Eric Schmidt At The US Senate Hearing
Today’s the day. Google chairman Eric Schmidt is being called on the carpet in front of a US Senate subcommittee, to talk about whether his company is a monopolistic orge. I’m here, live blogging. Fun starts at 2pm ET. NOTE: Our follow-up article, which covers the entire hearing with highlights and without live blogging typos […]
Bing Maps’ “Game Changer”: Hi-Res Aerial Imagery Coming To Entire US and Western Europe
Hot on the heels of last week’s Read/Write World effort, Bing Maps has announced another ambitious project that will improve its imagery collection. It’s called the Global Ortho Project and the goal is to provide consistent, high resolution (30 cms) imagery across every square inch of the United States and Western Europe by June, 2012. […]
How Google Instant’s Autocomplete Suggestions Work
It’s a well known feature of Google. Start typing in a search, and Google offers suggestions before you’ve even finished typing. But how does Google come up with those suggestions? When does Google remove some suggestions? When does Google decide not to interfere? Come along for some answers.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 21, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Live Search? Kumo? Bing? Put Your Questions To Microsoft’s Dr. Qi Lu At SMX Advanced Dr. Qi Lu, the leader of Microsoft’s search efforts, will be keynoting on day two of […]
Search Biz: Google’s Project Management Tools, Iowa Seeks Microsoft, & More
Click Forensics gets $10 million in funding. An early Googler donates money to San Jose State. The fight to control IAC carries on. Disney doesn’t want AOL. Yahoo and Microsoft do research labs in Israel. A glimpse into the internal tools Google uses to manage products, and Iowa passes tax breaks in hopes of getting […]
Search Year 2007: Search News, In Review
Each month, I compile Search Month — a recap of all the stories that have happened relating to search, categorized by topic. I thought it would be fun to take all the Search Months over the past year and produce this edition of Search Year 2007. It was far more work than I imagined, but […]
Searcharazzi Saturday Spectacular: The Larry Page Wedding Details
Now that the “who attended which conference this week” gossip chatter is over, we have a bigger question: Who is attending Larry Page’s wedding today? As previously reported, Larry is getting married today, and Searcharazzi is reporting to you live from an undisclosed location at the island location, if only in our minds. In any […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 19, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google To Build $600 Million Data Center In Iowa
Google to build data center in Iowa from the Associated Press reports Google has confirmed rumors that they will be building a data center in Iowa.
Oklahoma, Where The Google Comes Sweepin’ Down The Plain
From California, Google has spread out across the great land of the United States. New York! Washington! Arizona! And now which of the fifty nifty United States is Google heading to next? Oklahoma! Below, some news of Google’s plans for the Sooner State and well as a recap of what other states it has conquered […]