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Topic: Jason Calacanis
This day in search marketing history: March 26
More sites move to Google mobile-first indexing, plus: Google penalizes entire site over one guest blog post, Google Maps logo bomb and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 8
Google Chrome's 'not secure' warning, plus: Search Ads 360, Google News and Discover penalties, content farms and more.
With iOS 9, Apple’s Siri & Spotlight Search Get Smarter
New sources continue to push Google to the edge of Apple's search ecosystem, but Google Now remains ahead on predictions.
SearchCap: Google Polish Penalties, AdWords Disallows Porn & Matt Cutts Takes Leave
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Head Of Google’s Web Spam Team Matt Cutts Is Going On Leave Google’s Matt Cutts – who holds the title of “distinguished engineer” — is taking a break from his duties […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 23, 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: Yahoo-Microsoft Search Tensions On Public Display In Court Ruling Microsoft has essentially had to sue Yahoo to get the company to fully comply with the terms of their 2010 “Search Alliance” […]
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 […]
Larry Page Ousts Mark Zuckerberg As Most Popular On Google+
It looks like adding a suggested user list to Google+ has finally paid off in solving its “Mark Zuckerberg problem.” Facebook’s CEO is no longer the most popular person on Google+, having just now been passed by Google CEO Larry Page. Zuckerberg has been the most followed user since the first week that Google+ launched. That’s […]
More Farmer Update Winners, Losers: Wikihow, Blippr & Yahoo Answers
As search industry analysts continue to review the fallout from last week’s Google Farmer update, we’re getting new snapshots of what sites were hurt and which ones have survived the crosshairs of Google’s latest algorithm change. One such analysis from SearchMetrics confirms much of what’s already been reported, but also adds several new names to […]
Google Trying To Minimize Collateral Damage From “Farmer” Update
Google is aware that some “good” sites have been hurt by the recent Farmer algorithm update and is working to fix the problem already. That’s according to a Wired.com story that focuses largely on Cult of Mac, an Apple-centric blog that lost 80% of its keyword rankings according to the Sistrix data that came out […]
Google Forecloses On Content Farms With “Panda” Algorithm Update
In January, Google promised that it would take action against content farms that were gaining top listings with “shallow” or “low-quality” content. Now the company is delivering, announcing a change to its ranking algorithm designed take out such material. New Change Impacts 12% Of US Results The new algorithm — Google’s “recipe” for how to […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 9, 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: Super Bowl Sparks Twitter Record For Sporting Event Fans watching the final few moments of the Super Bowl last weekend set a new record for Tweets-per-second (TPS) for a sporting event: […]
Mahalo’s Calacanis: Time To End The Content Farm Arms Race
No stranger to controversy, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis threw down a gauntlet at his “content farm” competitors, arguing they’re polluting the web and angering Google, to the detriment of searchers and their own companies.
Demand Media & Being “The Best Click” On Google
Demand Media’s success? Listening to what people want and generating great content to show up at Google. At least that’s part of it, said Demand’s chief revenue officer Joanne Bradford — and she came armed with screenshots and examples to prove it.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 24, 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: Hot At Sphinn: Google Favoritism In Search Results, Eric Schmidt Steps Down & More The idea that Google might be favoring its own properties and content in search results was a […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 13, 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: Facebook On Social Search: ‘We Want To Work With Everybody’ That was a statement Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made in response to a question at the end of the Bing-Facebook press […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 8, 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: Time To Think Carefully About Which Country Hosts Your URL Shortener In my “how to choose a URL shortener” article last year, I warned that the country domain that a shortener […]
Blame One Of Calacanis’s Own 5,000 Facebook “Friends” For Putting Him In The NAMBLA Group
Jason Calacanis was a bit upset with Facebook’s new Facebook Groups feature, after he discovered someone added him to a supposed NABMLA group on Facebook. But it wasn’t some stranger that added Jason. It was one of his own Facebook friends. Facebook: Where 5,000 Friends Know Your Name Jason has nearly 5,000 friends on Facebook. […]
Irony: Facebook’s New Groups Give Me Less Control, Not More
I missed Facebook’s press conference yesterday about the new Facebook Groups feature that promises that you can share comments, photos and other information more tightly among only people you trust. But I learned about the feature firsthand soon enough, when I found myself added to a group without being asked. And that was worrisome. Robert […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 21, 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 Launches Encrypted Web Search Want to keep your searches from being seen when using open WiFi or other networks? Google’s introduced a new “secure” encrypted version of its search. Anyone […]
Why I’m Not Deleting My Facebook Account (Yet)
Jason Calacanis plans to commit “Facebook suicide” today and become the latest in a line of prominent tech people to delete their accounts. I considered doing the same back in December but have hung in there. That’s not due to gaining more faith in Facebook. Instead, I shifted to sharing via a fan page. You […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 15, 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: Facebook Passes Google (Again) As Most-Visited US Site: Hitwise Facebook.com was the most-visited web site in the U.S. last week, surpassing even Google.com. And this is not the first time it’s […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 12, 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 Goes Hollywood With New TV, Celebrity Shortcuts Citing the popularity of entertainment-related searches, Yahoo’s search results have gone Hollywood with the announcement of new search shortcuts for TV shows and […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 11, 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 Goes Live With “In-Stock, Nearby” Mobile Shopping In the range of thigs discussed at Google’s Search Evolution event in December Engineering VP Vic Gundotra demonstrated mobile shopping with real-time inventory […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 22, 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: What Would You Ask Steve Ballmer About Bing, Microsoft & Search? Next week, on March 2, I’ll be interviewing Steve Ballmer on stage at our SMX West search marketing conference. This […]
Google Buzz: The Good, Bad, & Ugly Reactions
Google’s stated goal for Buzz is to help users cut through the noise of social networking. Ironically, yesterday’s announcement created as much noise (maybe more?) as an Apple announcement. Yep, everybody’s got an opinion about Google Buzz and if you’re one of the many who found it impossible to follow the reactions, we’ve done some […]
He Calls Google A Vampire, But Mark Cuban’s Mahalo Is Doing The Sucking
Yesterday, Mark Cuban warned media owners in a keynote speech that Google is a vampire trying to suck them dry, giving them nothing back and daring owners to block it. This is the same Mark Cuban who is an investor in Mahalo, which touts to advertisers how it taps into Google to generate page views. […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 15, 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: Yahoo Showing Local Results On Non-Local Queries Following in others’ footsteps, Yahoo says it’s now showing its local shortcut on certain queries that don’t include a local modifier. When you search […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 10, 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: SEM Lessons From The Fall Of The Berlin Wall Twenty years ago the fall of the Berlin Wall didn’t just change politics in Europe—it changed Europeans behavior. To this day we […]
Why An Exclusive Wall Street Journal (or News Corp) Deal Wouldn’t Help Bing
With Rupert Murdoch talking about blocking Google, Jason Calacanis suggests that Murdoch should cut an exclusive deal with Bing. If that doesn’t kill Google, it might at least win Bing a 10% search share or more within 6 months, he argues. I suggest Jason needs a reality check. Here’s one for him. From his post […]
A Search Eulogy For Yahoo
And then there were two. Make no mistake, Yahoo’s out of the search game. I know the spin. Better user interface, new ways to innovate, a winning play. Let’s not kid ourselves. They’re done. Not today, not necessarily in a year, but down the line at some point. Done. And it’s sad, because they were […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 3, 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: Google Squared Is Now Live Google has pulled the covers off of Squared, the search tool that was first demoed during the Searchology event last month. Google Squared takes a search […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 2, 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: Internet Explorer 6 Forces Bing As Default Search Provider It appears that Bing is overriding the default search provider set by users of Internet Explorer 6. Several IE6 users have complained […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 14, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SEO: Great For Traffic & Conversions, But Can It Fight Terrorists, Too?
(No, this is not a holdover from our April 1 coverage, but I will be ‘optimizing’ the article with my own personal comments in parentheses.) A UK government agency charged with fighting terrorism has a new tool in its arsenal: SEO. (Take that, Calacanis!) According to The Register, the Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism (OCST) […]
How Google Shot Microsoft After It Took A Knife To A Gunfight
Google’s a split-personality company. On the one hand, it wants people to believe that it could lose its customers at any time, lest it get viewed as a monopoly. But question its ability on the technical front, and the Big G will go off on you like nobody’s business. That’s what happened this week to […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 15, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Mahalo Answers Launches, Offers Cash For Q&A
Mahalo Answers is the newest entry into the crowded Q&A reference site space, but it offers a twist that its biggest competitors don’t: the chance to earn money by contributing to the service. Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis says the new service is the third and final piece of his original vision for Mahalo, making it […]
Search Biz: Google Going Down Under?; Times Selling About.com?; Latest Ad Outlook; Yahoo Offering ‘Deceptive’ Ads
Australian media are reporting that Google recently sent a five-person crew to Australia to investigate the idea of building a data center there. According to Australian IT, some Google services cost more in Australia due to the need to route data to and from the U.S. and other countries. Says Google Australia spokesman Rob Shilkin: […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 14, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.