How AI helped build hreflang XML sitemaps at scale
Learn how iterative prompting, Python, and Google Colab helped turn a multilingual hreflang mapping project into a scalable workflow.
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Why global sites amplify technical errors and steps to prevent this
Here’s a playbook for building monitoring systems, workflows, and coordination to help keep your enterprise sites healthy across regions and languages.
Google expands AI Mode beyond English
Google AI Mode now works with Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese.
Lookback: Google Panda algorithm update launched 13 years ago
Here's a complete history of the Google Panda Update, its impact on search results, and its lasting legacy on SEO.
Google updates deepfakes search algorithms and controls and expands About this image
Google is making it easier to remove deepfakes and also expands About this image to Circle to Search and Google Lens.
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.
Naver, Korean search engine, now supports IndexNow
That makes four search engines that now support IndexNow; Bing, Yandex, Seznam, Naver.
Google Bard now can show Search and knowledge panels, maps and more while removing the waitlist
Bard also adds dark mode, Google Lens, more integrations, all announced at Google I/O.
This day in search marketing history: February 22
Google page experience update for desktop rolls out, plus: Google’s Pirate Update impact, Google Shopping experience scorecard and more.
5 international SEO tips that don’t include hreflang
Hreflang tags are not enough to ensure a country-specific site ranks in its local market. Follow these tips to boost your international SEO.
Google launches 3 new ad creation tools
The new features give advertisers and teams the ability to create and collaborate, without leaving the ads platform.
Hear me out: FLoC, but as a matchmaking service; Tuesday’s daily brief
And, how to maintain organic performance when merging multiple websites.
Apple’s Siri gets first major redesign in years
Plus there is a new Apple Translate app that is private and on-device.
Google Assistant everywhere: more dedicated buttons, expansion on lower-end phones
The company is also adding local search suggestions in Messages.
Google Lens goes live for search on iOS: We tested it out
Now that Lens is no longer buried in Google Photos we'll see more rapid adoption of visual search.
Google’s Gboard for Android keyboard now supports 300+ languages
Google says Gboard for Android now covers 74% of the world's population.
Latest updates to Gboard for Android include a ‘search all media’ feature
Reports indicate the latest refresh for the Google-designed keyboard comes with a new interface that allows users to search all categories.
Will a Viv-enabled Galaxy S8 help Samsung rehabilitate its brand?
Samsung said it will be making more AI acquisitions as it plays catch-up with Google and others.
What are Google’s Gary Illyes’ favorite ranking signals?
Gary Illyes from Google loves Penguin, Panda and localization algorithms.
Google “Now on Tap” Offers Holiday Use Cases Such As Package Tracking, Travel
The simplest way to describe Google Now on Tap is perhaps “context-driven search.” It’s a way for users to generate more content or information about a subject or item without ever conducting a formal search — or even swiping for Google Now. Whether in an app, mobile site, email or text message, Now on Tap […]
Europe Turns Antitrust Attention To Google Maps For Android
The antitrust investigation (or enforcement action) against Google in Europe is currently focused on shopping search. There’s an earlier stage, but parallel investigation of Android is now taking off. Comments from regulators and European politicians suggest there’s a potentially long road ahead for Google and many investigations to come. Indeed, a more formal local search […]
Microsoft Translator App Comes To iOS & Android With Wearable Support
Microsoft launches a new mobile app for real-time translation to compete with Google's Google Translate app.
Googling The Weather: From 20% Project To Sophisticated Query Analysis
Millions of us have asked Google to play weatherperson. In order to get an answer to one of our oldest and most basic questions, we type a variety of words and numbers — city names, neighborhoods and ZIP codes, plus words like “weather,” “forecast” or maybe “temperature” — into the Google search box, and Google […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 15, 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 Knowledge Graph Gets More Stats and 4 New Languages At Google I/O today, Amit Singhal, Google VP of Search, announced that statistics and four new languages are being added to […]
Google Knowledge Graph Gets More Stats and 4 New Languages
At Google I/O today, Amit Singhal, Google VP of Search, announced that statistics and four new languages are being added to the Google Knowledge Graph. Knowledge Graph is already supported English and eight other languages: French, Italian, Spanish, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Korean. Now, Polish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese are the latest […]
Has Google Overtaken Naver In South Korea?
Since roughly 2006 Naver has been the leading search site in South Korea. Consistently Google has been unable to break through and — according to various traffic estimates — has less than 5 percent of the market there. That’s as recently as Q4 of last year according to data I’ve seen. Mysteriously, however, StatCounter is […]
Panda Update 3.92 Rolling Out (Or Is It Panda 20 Time?)
Google’s announced that another Panda Update is being unleashed on its results, one that it says will impact 0.7% of queries. We’re calling it Panda 3.92, through we’re wondering if it’s time to declare Panda 4.0 upon us. Here’s the official news from Google: Panda refresh is rolling out—expect some flux over the next few days. Fewer […]
Google Panda Refresh On August 20: Version 3.9.1
Google has confirmed they have pushed out a Panda refresh this past Monday. This updated affected less than 1% of search queries and is a “minor” Panda refresh. We emailed Google, after hearing speculation of a Panda update and Google confirmed it by tweeting it. Here is that tweet: Panda data refresh this past Monday. […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 18, 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: Foursquare Tips Now Integrated Into Bing’s Social Sidebar In May Bing rolled out its new social sidebar that tied together social data from both Facebook and Twitter. Today another source has […]
Google Panda Hits Japanese & Korean Languages
Google announced they have now migrated the Panda algorithm to Japanese and Korean languages. Google also added that this is likely to affect about 5% of queries for those languages. No other Asian or other languages were affected by this update. This comes over 16 months after Google released the original Panda update for English […]
Google Sued By Texas Attorney General To Turn Over Documents
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Google has been sued by the Texas Attorney General’s office. The Texas Attorney General is currently investigating Google’s alleged anti-competitive behavior and potential abuse of power. That investigation is essentially parallel to what’s going on at the Federal Trade Commission. The suit, filed Monday in […]
Apple Siri To Add Sports, Restaurants, Reservations, Movies & App Search
Apple at their World Wide Developer Conference today announced iOS6 with some really nice features to Siri, their voice search engine. You can see a preview of some of these features at Apple.com but here is a snapshot showing enhancements including: Sports Search Restaurants with Reservation Booking Movie Search & Ticketing Search For Apps On […]
Search Engine Friendly Web Design
Search Engine Friendly Web Design [flv:https://searchengineland.com/video_assets/bootcamp/se-friendly-design.flv 364 264] “I’m not designing my site for search engines,” is a common designer objection to SEO suggestions. But when search engines collectively have more users than either Internet Explorer or Firefox, how can you afford to ignore how they interact with your site? Search engines are like the […]
Improved Snippets, Rank Boost For “Official” Pages Among 10 New Google Algorithm Changes
Google just posted about ten new algorithm changes it has made to how it shows and ranks search results. These include showing rich snippets more often, improving the quality of snippets, a better way of showing page titles for times when Google ignores the HTML title tag itself and a ranking boost for “official pages,” […]
Google Translate For Android Literally Speaks More Languages, Through Conversation Mode
In January, Google Translate for Android gained “Conversation Mode,” a way to speak into your phone and have it speak back in a different language. Today, Google’s expanded the number of languages supported. Originally, the tool only supported English-to-Spanish translation (or vice versa). Now, Google says 14 languages in all are covered: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 7, 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: Confirmed: Bartz Out As Yahoo CEO Details are very sparse, but All Things Digital is reporting that Carol Bartz’s rocky tenure as Yahoo CEO has ended. All Things Digital reports that […]
Google Korea Raided By Korean Fair Trade Commission
Korean trustbusters raid Google offices from CNet News reports the Korean Fair Trade Commission raided Google’s Seoul, South Korea offices yesterday. The raid was reportedly part of an investigation around Android. The Korean Fair Trade Commission was investigating if the Android platform unfairly made it hard for rival search engines to be found and used […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 15, 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: Foursquare Adds ‘Lists’ Functionality For Profiles & Pages Over the past few years Foursquare has been rapidly evolving, and their newly announced “lists” feature looks like a very promising new addition. […]
Panda’s Winners & Losers In Germany: Bing’s Ciao.de, Wikio.de & More
Google has again slapped a comparison shopping site owned by its primary search competitor, Bing, as part of its most recent expansion of the “Panda” algorithm update. It’s only been a few days since Google pushed out Panda around the world in all languages except Chinese, Japanese and Korean. But Searchmetrics has already published its […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 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: Update Made To Definition Of A Google Analytics Session Google Analytics announced a change on the way a sessions are calculated on the tool. While this change will not affect the […]