How to spot and avoid shady link building vendors
Avoid the pitfalls of link network spam. Here’s how to spot scammy pitches, identify toxic sites and protect your brand’s SEO.
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Google SGE expands to 120 countries while adding new follow-up questions, AI translation help and more definitions
SGE now in more countries, more languages with more features.
An SEO’s guide to understanding large language models (LLMs)
Here's what SEOs need to know about large language models, natural language processing and everything in between.
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.
SearchCap: Google Discover ads, YouTube engagement metric & PPC tools
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: YouTube now counts ‘engagement’ for YouTube for action ads at 10 seconds, not 30Oct 15, 2018 by Ginny Marvin Google says the new attribution will better reflect the role of video […]
Google launches new effort to flag upsetting or offensive content in search
Using data from human "quality raters," Google hopes to teach its algorithms how to better spot offensive and often factually incorrect information.
What Is The Mountain Of Butterflies? Google Doodle Marks 41st Anniversary Of The Natural Phenomenon
In 1975, a team of Canadian zoologist found millions of monarch butterflies that had migrated to the eastern part of Mexico's Sierra Madre Mountains.
Cookiegate Another Privacy Black Eye For Google
Call it “Cookiegate” — or “Safarigate” perhaps. Late last night we got the Wall Street Journal’s piece: “Google’s iPhone Tracking: Web Giant, Others Bypassed Apple Browser Settings for Guarding Privacy.” Danny covered the article and its claims extensively at Marketing Land. This morning there’s an expanding debate about whether the WSJ mischaracterized Google’s behavior unfairly […]
FairSearch.org Introduces Anti-Google “Good To Know” Ad Campaign
FairSearch.org, a consortium of companies that originally came together to oppose the Google acquisition of ITA and includes Tavelocity, Microsoft and TripAdvisor among others, has added several new members to its ranks and launched an anti-Google print-ad campaign. Entitled “Good to Know,” the ads seek to expose “truths” about Google and its alleged conflicts of […]
WSJ: Federal Prisoner Helped U.S. Sting Against Google’s Pharmacy Ads
It’s been a difficult month for Google, and the company is bound to take another hit in the morning as a Wall Street Journal article makes the rounds — an article that offers new details about the government sting that compelled Google to pay $500 million after acknowledging that it both allowed and helped Canadian […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 13, 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’s SPYW, Kenya Imbroglios An “Ink Blot” Test For Google As Good Or Evil? I woke up this morning to discover some fairly outrageous allegations against Google in Kenya. Local search/directory […]
Google’s SPYW, Kenya Imbroglios An “Ink Blot” Test For Google As Good Or Evil
I woke up this morning to discover some fairly outrageous allegations against Google in Kenya. Local search/directory startup Mocality says that Google crawled its site for local business sales leads and then falsely claimed in cold calls to those businesses it had a partnership with the publisher to sign them up. Mocality founder Stefan Magdalinski […]
Google, Bing & Searching For The New Wikileaks Website
Looking for the Wikileaks website? Having lost one domain, and having its second site going down temporarily, it’s a challenge, even for the search engines.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 2, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Hiring In Africa
Google is reportedly starting to bulk up a bit in Africa. The company is doing some new hiring in its Nairobi, Kenya African headquarters and opening new offices in several countries. International revenues represented 48 percent of Google’s earnings in Q4 2007.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 11, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web: