Adobe to acquire Semrush
Adobe will acquire Semrush for $1.9 billion, the companies announced today, with closing expected in the first half of 2026.
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Google hypes AI Overviews, refuses to answer CTR question
Google also reported that AI Overviews have 1.5 billion users – even though AI Overviews are a default search feature, not a product.
PayPal launching ad network fueled by user purchase data
PayPal plans to offer personalized promotions and advertising, targeting its approximately 400 million users.
Chase launches first bank-led media network
The new Chase Media Solutions boasts 80 million financial customers for brands to send special offers to.
Apple’s ad business may reach $6 billion by 2025
Early projections by analysts put the tech giant "in a good place to take advantage of the booming mobile advertising market."
Destructive impact of coronavirus on SMBs greater than an ‘economic hurricane’
Yelp analysis finds the devastation is 4X the magnitude of the biggest economic shocks of the past decade.
How the Paycheck Protection Program can save your agency, and your clients
The CARES act is a bridge that many of us need to keep our agencies functioning and there's every reason you should apply for this program today.
SearchCap: Bing Maps API, Google and YouTube ads and targeted SEO
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Now your Google text ads can show on YouTube search results, tooJan 30, 2019 by Ginny Marvin Google says early tests have shown similar performance results for text ads on YouTube […]
AdGooroo Adds Mobile Paid Search Spend Insights, Releases List Of Top Mobile Search Advertisers
Search marketing intelligence firm, AdGooroo announced it is the first to provide insights into search advertising spend on mobile devices. The new mobile search data is now included in the company’s SEM Insights Tool, starting with data from the U.S., U.K. and Australia. Additional mobile insights now available include ad copy, impressions and clicks, click-through […]
Suspected Paid-Link Penalty Hasn’t Hit Expedia Bottom Line — Yet
Yesterday online travel giant Expedia announced Q4 2013 and full year results. The company “beat the street,” reporting strong room night and revenue growth across all geographies. So far a suspected penalty from Google hasn’t hurt the company’s bottom line. See our earlier stories: Expedia Lost 25% Of Their Search Visibility In Google Possibly Over […]
Only 6% Of Top 100 Fortune 500 Companies Have Sites That Comply With Google’s Mobile Requirements
Last month at the SMX Advanced Conference in Seattle, the head of Google’s webspam team Matt Cutts briefed the audience on the importance of mobile SEO. “You really need to be thinking about mobile,” said Cutts during his keynote session, “We’re starting to think a lot about mobile.” Not only is Google’s head of webspam […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 7, 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: Sudden Change In The Number Of Links Reporting In Google Webmaster? Don’t Panic. Over the past week or so, we’ve been hearing reports of the number of links being reported within […]
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 […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 28, 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: Number Crunchers: Who Lost In Google’s “Farmer” Algorithm Change? On Thursday, Google announced a major change to its search algorithm, designed to weed out shallow and low-quality content from its top […]
Is Apple Really “Threatening” Google In Mobile Advertising?
Earlier this week a Bloomberg/BusinessWeek article appeared under the headline: Apple Threatens Search Giants’ Mobile Ad Shares. It gained a tremendous amount of secondary pickup and discussion for the proposition that Apple had tied Google in mobile advertising revenue. The article relied on IDC estimates to argue “Apple may be gaining share in the U.S. […]
New comScore Search Metrics: ‘Explict Core Search’ Up At Yahoo, Bing, Down At Google
As Danny earlier pointed out, comScore has devised a new metric called “Explicit Core Search” to separate intended search results from slideshow “gaming” (“contextual search”), which had arguably distorted search volumes at Yahoo and to some degree Bing in recent months. Here’s how comScore explains the new metric: When comScore reports our July 2010 qSearch […]
Google Starting To Manage Its Cash Mountain More Aggressively
Google now has roughly $26 billion in cash on hand. That mountain of money has apparently been getting very conservative returns according to an article appearing in Businessweek. The article also discusses how Google has now turned its formidable technology and software prowess on its short term investments to more aggressively manage its portfolio. Accordingly […]
Google Launches “Google Internet Stats”
It appears Google has pulled together a bunch of statistics throughout the web and created a small landing page named Google Internet Stats on the Google UK front. The page explains that this service “brings together the latest industry facts and insights together in one place.” Google collected this data from many third party vendors, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 16, 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 Has “Stabilized,” Reports $5.5 Billion In Q2 Revenues Google just reported second quarter earnings of $5.52 billion, representing “an increase of 3% compared to the second quarter of 2008.” The […]
Bing: It’s The Relevancy, Stupid
Lost in the shuffle of yesterday’s report about Bing’s impact on the search industry was some interesting and, for Microsoft, potentially valuable feedback on its new search engine. The J.P. Morgan report (available to the company’s clients at mm.jpmorgan.com) is based on a survey of 763 U.S. adults and their search behavior during June — […]
comScore: Bing Barely Gaines Share In June 2009
Now a third major ratings service has released search engine share figures for June 2009, and like the others, they show that Bing made only a tiny gain in the wake of its launch and major ad campaign. The comScore figures have gone out to the financial analyst community, and the comScore press release with […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 14, 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: Report: Google Has Nothing To Fear From Bing Itself The only thing Google has to fear is fear itself. The immortal words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt sum up the findings of […]
Report: Google Has Nothing To Fear From Bing Itself
The only thing Google has to fear is fear itself. The immortal words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt sum up the findings of a J.P. Morgan report published today and shared with Search Engine Land, “Understanding the Impact of Bing on the Search Industry.” (It’s available to the company’s clients at mm.jpmorgan.com.) The bottom line: Of […]
Bing: comScore sees Gains; Compete Sees Same Old, Same Old
More early stats are coming in on how searchers are reacting to the Bing launch. comScore shows Microsoft’s Bing search engine continuing to make gains, but Compete shows things remain largely the same. From comScore, the latest stats show that “searcher penetration” has climbed from 13.7% in the week before it launched, to 15.8% during […]
Google Gets “Pole Position” On The Pre
Tomorrow Palm’s Pre (comeback) smartphone will go on sale through US carrier Sprint. In early 2010 it will reportedly come to Verizon, which opens it up to a much larger market. To date, the Pre has received mostly positive reviews, though, as with the G1 and soon ION/G2, reviewers seem to agree that it falls […]
eBay: Only 14 Percent Pleased With Google Checkout
Readers will recall Google recently backing down from eBay in pushing Google Checkout against eBay’s PayPal. Google, eBay battle it out over online payments from Bloomberg is a good article shedding fresh light on how important PayPal is to eBay, to the degree that it would pull its ads from Google to protect something that […]
Microsoft: We Don’t Need Yahoo (Now), aQuantive Deal ‘More Of A Merger’
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) ran an article quoting Microsoft’s Yusuf Mehdi, who made the following statements at a Goldman Sachs Internet conference: “Yahoo has a great business. Kudos to them, but we’re bigger globally. We have half a billion people . . . I still don’t think it’s the end of inning one. […]
Yahoo, PayPal Team Up On Checkout
Building on their existing alliance, Yahoo and PayPal today announced that Yahoo Sponsored Search results will feature a blue shopping cart icon linking to merchants that accept PayPal Express Checkout as a method of payment. Participating merchants’ search listings on Yahoo will be enhanced with the shopping cart icon, pointing consumers to a bright orange […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Jan. 18, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
JP Morgan Report Shows PayPal Dominating Google Checkout
Via Search Engine Journal, JP Morgan released a report named Google Checkout vs. PayPal (PDF). The report shows that Google Checkout has potential but PayPal is still dominating the field. Here are the key points, as per the report: Surveyed about 1,100 online buyers in 2006 Google Checkout Adoption hits 6% in first year Google […]