Understanding & Leveraging Search By Voice: Up Close @SMX
Columnist Rachel Lindteigen recaps a presentation on voice search and opportunities for marketers, in coverage of the SMX West conference.
Topic: Kit Kat
Search In Pics: Google Burgers, Android Dress Up & Inflatable Android Robots
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
Android TV Shows Knowledge Graph Search Results
Google’s just announced Android TV is a significant improvement over the original Google TV. It doesn’t require a game controller or bulky remote to work (though a game controller can be used for Google Play Games). And you can search for content with your voice. The UI is simple and much more intuitive than Google […]
Search In Pics: Yahoo’s 19th Birthday Cake, Google Jugglers & Canadian KitKat Android Statue
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 26, 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: Google Enables “OK Google” Hands-Free Voice Search On PCs Through a Chrome browser extension users can now invoke the hotword (or hot phrase) “OK Google” to initiate hands-free searches on the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 8, 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: AdWords Offer Extensions Get Shut Down In Favor Of Google Offers In February, Google announced the limited release of AdWords Offer Extensions, which allowed advertisers to dedicate extra real estate in […]
OK Google: How About OK Jarvis, OK Android, Or Even OK Barry
Android Community noticed that some other phrases outside of “OK Google” trigger the voice search on the latest Android operating system, KitKat. So I tested this on my Nexus 5 and discovered that OK Google has alternatives. I tested the following phrases that seemed to work: OK Glass OK Jarvis OK Android OK Barry Now, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 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: SEMPO Asks Search Marketers To Take 9th Annual State Of Search Survey Just after publishing its annual salary survey results, SEMPO is calling for participants to take part in its 9th […]
Google Places Listings Get Integrated Into Android’s Phone App — And They’re Terrible
A big change in Android 4.4 is: those using Google’s new mobile operating system, nicknamed “KitKat,” can search for businesses right from within the Phone app. How’s it work? For me, it’s awful. Google+ Invades The Android 4.4 “KitKat” Phone App: What It Means For Businesses & People is our separate article that explores the integration […]
Nexus 5 First Impressions: A Great, Search-Centric Smartphone
Google shipped out demo versions of the Nexus 5 late last week. People are still receiving them today. I got one on Friday and have been using it on WiFi ever since. (I haven’t tried it on a wireless network and can’t speak to the LTE experience.) The phone immediately sold out of its initial […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 31, 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: Google Testing New AdWords Site Search Extension A new flavor of AdWords form extensions has been spotted. It’s a site search box, and according to Google, this test is related to […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 13, 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 Updates Answers For Social And SEO Value It’s amazing to me that it took Yahoo so long to update its Answers property. Once a thriving Q&A network and social search […]
Search In Pics: Google’s KitKat Bar, Mr. Jingles Pillow & Twitter Cupcakes
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 4, 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: Google May Be Updating Their Algorithm But They Won’t Confirm It Today, September 4th, and last week, August 21st, there were huge spikes in chatter amongst the SEO and webmasters about […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 3, 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: Dive Deep! Attend A Marketing Workshop At SMX East In NYC. Register Now! Join the most accomplished search marketers in the world at SMX East, October 1-3 in NYC. Add an […]