Topic: Kim Kardashian

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SEO

Nelson Mandela Ranks #1 On Google’s Top Trending Searches For 2013

Google has published its top ten global trending searches of  2013, with the recently deceased South African leader Nelson Mandela ranking No. 1 for this year’s top global searches: It’s perhaps unsurprising that the #1 trending search of 2013 was an international symbol of strength and peace: Nelson Mandela. Global search interest in the former […]

| Dec 17, 2013 at 12:03 pm ET
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LinkedIn

Bing Posts Its Most Popular Searches For 2013, Naming Beyonce The Most Searched Person Of The Year

Bing has released its most popular searches for 2013, including more than 20 “Most Searched” lists, from most searched persons, sports stars and teams, to most searched TV shows and movies, social sites, entertainment electronics and apps. Beyonce topped two lists, winning the No. 1 spot for most searched person of 2013 and most searched […]

| Dec 2, 2013 at 10:29 am ET
Content

12 Top Search Trends To Kick Off 12/12/12 Google Zeitgeist

Don’t worry, Google’s year in review for 2012 isn’t that predictable for the once in a lifetime calendar event. On the official Google 2012 Zeitgeist website, you’ll find their biggest list ever published, with a total of 838 lists from 55 countries, covering 1.2 trillion searches done worldwide. Digging in deeper, Google has divided the massive […]

| Dec 12, 2012 at 8:00 am ET
Google News

SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 3, 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: Mobile Search Beyond Google: In App Search Tools A couple months back, I covered the rise of a new generation of Windows Phones, and how they will slowly bring more mobile […]

| Dec 3, 2012 at 4:58 pm ET
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SEO

The Big Ask Of 2012: Do You Search For Team Kstew Or Rpatz?

Ask.com’s 100 million users remain almost as loyal as Twihards, prompting us to ask if searchers are on Team Jeeves or Team Diller when putting in their queries. For the 2012 installment of the series in hot searches, Ask added a new twist to the searcher saga, layering in a thicker plot and seeking a […]

| Nov 28, 2012 at 12:01 am ET
Apple

SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 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: Seeking Maps Fix, Apple Fires Mapping Team Manager And Asks Outsiders For Help According to a widely cited Bloomberg report published earlier today Apple has fired another executive in connection with […]

| Nov 27, 2012 at 4:54 pm ET
Ecommerce

2011 Yahoo! In Review: Top US Searches In 30 Categories

Now celebrating a decade of recapping annual search trends, earlier today, Yahoo! released the 2011 list of most popular searches in the US in 30 different categories, topping last year’s extensive list. This year marks the first full year Yahoo! used has used the Bing search engine to primarily power Yahoo! search results, with Americans […]

| Dec 1, 2011 at 5:35 pm ET
Apple

SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 1, 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: Google: Parked Domains, Scraper Sites Targeted Among New Search Changes In what’s now to be a monthly update on search changes, a new Google “Inside Search” blog post today tells us […]

| Dec 1, 2011 at 5:02 pm ET
Ecommerce

AOL In 2011: Charlie Sheen #Winning Over Other Celebrities

AOL announced its most popular global searches (United States, United Kingdom and Canada) in 2011 at https://hot.aol.com. While other search engines have ranked Justin Bieber and Kim K at the top for the year, Charlie Sheen proved he won the hearts of AOL users by climbing to the top of their most searched for celebrity list. Most […]

| Dec 1, 2011 at 2:47 pm ET
Apple

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 […]

| Nov 30, 2011 at 12:01 am ET
Bing

Bieber Tops Bing’s List Of Most Popular Searches In 2011

First out of the gate this year in the annual rush to declare search winners is Bing, who earlier today unveiled the top searches of 2011 at BingTrends.com. Bing.com also created an original video to recap the year in search, ending the clip with the Twitter hashtag #My2011. Video: Bing Originals: Decisions That Shaped 2011 […]

| Nov 28, 2011 at 1:00 pm ET
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Google Ads

Google Testing New Celebrity Endorsement Advertising Program

Google users may soon see celebrity endorsements included as annotations under paid search results as part of new advertising program that the company has just started testing. Google’s Christian Oestlien revealed the test this afternoon as part of a session on Google+ and the Google +1 button at our SMX East Conference in New York […]

| Sep 14, 2011 at 2:49 pm ET
Google Analytics

SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 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: Extreme Email Experiment: How Much Is Too Much? With some simple analytics in place, you can pretty easily establish the ideal frequency of your B2B email campaigns. Based on the results […]

| Jan 12, 2011 at 5:13 pm ET
Content

UK Regulator To Crack Down On Paid Celeb Tweets

Will celebrity “influencers” like Kim Kardashian or Chelsea Handler soon have to disclose when they’re being paid to promote a product or service on Twitter?  This past weekend The Guardian reported that the UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) “has begun a crackdown on Twitter users and bloggers using their online presence to endorse products […]

| Jan 12, 2011 at 6:12 am ET
Apple

Ask.com In 2010: Now Giving Answers

Less than a month ago, we reported that Ask.com was giving up on search technology (see: Ask.com To Focus On Q&A Search, End Web Crawling, opting to return to its roots as a Question & Answer site. Now, Ask.com’s sending off the year (and their search offering) for good (maybe) by releasing the first ever […]

| Dec 1, 2010 at 1:19 pm ET
Google

At Google Images, “G” Is For “Girls In Bathrooms”

The launch of Google Instant last month drew new attention to what Google suggests that people search for — and what it purposely omits to keep things family friendly. But over on Google Images, some of the suggestions that appear as you type are more of the soft-porn variety. Girls Gone Wild On Google Here’s […]

| Oct 18, 2010 at 8:18 pm ET
LinkedIn

How To Make Paid Social Media Ads Effective And Engaging

While advertising on social media makes sense for advertisers, the owners of ‘free’ sites like Twitter and Facebook still need to make money. Ad banners have been the answer for many social media sites for a long time. However, banner blindness has created a large problem for advertisers since they are paying for impressions, but […]

| Sep 14, 2010 at 2:35 pm ET
SEO

The Twitter Celebrities We Seek The Most, According To Google

There are plenty of celebrities on Twitter, and it easy to find lists of those who are most popular according to the number of people following them. But here’s a twist. Who are the most popular celebrities on Twitter that people are trying to find, in order to follow them? Below, a top ten list […]

| Aug 3, 2010 at 3:22 pm ET
Paid social

FAQ: Twitter’s New Rules On Third-Party Ads

Earlier today, Twitter posted new rules about how third party ad companies can insert ads into the Twitter “timeline” of tweets. Is this a death knell for those third party companies? Not necessarily, but it’s sure a crimp in some of their plans. Below, what the new rules seem to ban and allow. The Background […]

| May 24, 2010 at 6:10 pm ET