When is Google’s birthday? Google turns 18 & makes itself a doodle to celebrate
Designed by doodler Gerben Steenks, the animated doodle leads to a search for "when is Google's birthday."
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10 big changes with search engines over my 20 years of covering them
Search Engine Land founding editor Danny Sullivan looks at how search has changed over the two decades he's been writing about it.
The Google Dance Is Back For Search Engine Land’s SMX West Search Conference
After a hiatus since 2008, the "Google Dance" returns to the Googleplex, where Google will host a special event on March 2, 2016 for marketers attending Search Engine Land's Search Marketing Expo & Conference in Silicon Valley.
Google AdWords Turns 15: A Look Back At The Origins Of A $60 Billion Business
AdWords launched with 350 advertisers in 2000. Today, more than 1 million advertisers generate tens of billions in revenue for the company.
SearchCap: Bing Ads Updates, Global CPC Benchmarks & Moz’s 2015 Search Ranking Factors
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Major Billing Improvements & Consolidated Billing Arrive On Bing Ads A new suite of Bing Ads billing tools will keep search marketers working on their accounts, not accounting issues. Is CTR […]
Irony Alert: Could Alphabet’s Hidden Link To Hooli Get It Banned In Google?
If you know where to look or click, there's a hidden link from Alphabet to Hooli, the fictional tech company in HBO's Silicon Valley comedy. But hidden links are a no-no with Google's search guidelines.
Is Bing Trolling Google & Alphabet With ABC.WTF Redirect?
Google's name change/reorganization prompts a witty response from Redmond.
Sundar Pichai Appointed Google CEO As Google Becomes Division Of Alphabet Inc.
In a totally unexpected development this afternoon, Google announced that it had formed a new holding company, Alphabet, Inc., and that Google would be a wholly owned subsidiary of that entity. In addition, Google co-founders Page and Brin will become CEO and President of the new company, respectively, turning over daily control of Google to Sundar Pichai, who […]
Search In Pics: Google Search At Xiaomi, Twitter CEO Standing O & Google Paris Fridge
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: Google Maps iOS App, Apple iOS Deep Linking & Gay Pride Google
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Gay Pride Month Gets Google’s Support With Rainbow-Colored Images For LGBT Searches For the month of June, LGBT-related search terms will deliver a Google results page with a rainbow-colored heart and […]
Search In Pics: Matt Cutts At Google I/O, Google Maps Bus & Android Bush
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.
Getting Better, But Google Still Has Work On Piracy: The Game Of Thrones Story
The search engine scores exceptionally well fighting piracy on generic searches for the popular TV series. But for the piracy-prone searches it's supposed to be targeting, there are failures.
SearchCap: Google AdWords Bug, Algorithm Updates & SEO Visibility
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Advertisers Reporting Big Google AdWords Quality Score Declines Issue appears to be affecting accounts globally. Google has now announced a fix is rolling out. They Fooled Us All: Why Google May […]
Search In Pics: Google Cardboard Cubicles, Watch Store & The Founders In 1999
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: Google Penguin Holiday Rollout, Microsoft Torque & Facebook Search
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Rolls Out New “Fact Answers” Search Feature With Information On Local Addresses & Reviews Bing has updated its search results to deliver what it calls “Fact Answers” for local reviews […]
Like Google, Apple’s Siri Also Gets Stephen Colbert’s Height Wrong
Google came under fire last night from Stephen Colbert, over a direct answer that got the comedian’s height wrong. But Apple’s Siri makes the same mistake — something Colbert didn’t raise during his video appearance at the Apple’s iPad event today. Stephen Colbert Demands Google Apology For Getting His Height Wrong on our Marketing Land […]
Celeb Lawyer To Google: Block Nudes Or Pay $100 Million
As reported by several media outlets, an LA-based attorney representing “over a dozen female celebrities” whose photos were hacked and stolen in the recent iCloud nude photo scandal has threatened Google with $100 million in damages if the company doesn’t immediately block or remove the celebrities’ images. The lawyer, Martin Singer, sent a demand letter […]
SearchCap: Google Panda Losers, Right To Be Forgotten & Google’s 16th Birthday
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: An AdWords Script To Make Exact Match, Well…Exact Many of you will have heard about Google’s decision to terminate exact match (at the same time as telling us that it’s for […]
Google Marks How Big Its Grown With Animated 16th Birthday Logo
Today’s Google logo marks the search engine’s sweet sixteen. Founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google started out as “BackRub” – a search engine Brin and Page originally constructed in 1996 using links to rank the importance of individual web pages. By 1998, “BackRub” had become Google, with Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim offering […]
SearchCap: Google+ In Search, Bing Image Update, RTBF & Mistaken Google Penalties
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Image Search Updates Include Touch Friendly Result Pages That Adapt To Screen Size & Resolution Over the next few weeks, Bing is rolling out new updates to its image search […]
SearchCap: Google News Publisher Center, Google Pigeon Droppings & New Bing Ads Interface
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 Launches Google News Publisher Center Google announced on the Google News blog a new portal for Google News publishers to use to help manage their news sites within Google News. […]
SearchCap: Weird Google Quick Answers, Google Maps Ads & Luxury Paid Search Spend
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Top Luxury Brands Spent $22 Million On Google Text Ads In The U.S. Last Year [Study] Paid search research firm, AdGooroo, has analyzed the paid search activity by luxury brands and […]
Life With Cortana, Microsoft’s Predictive Search Challenger To Google Now & Siri
Microsoft’s new predictive search agent Cortana is finally becoming available to the general public. How does it compare to longstanding champion Google Now? After months of using them both, it’s no contest. Google Now easily wins, in my daily life. But Cortana does gives Microsoft an important foundation in the predictive search space and puts […]
SearchCap: Apple Maps Choices, Google RTBF Solicitations & AdWords PLA Test
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Reassess How You Prioritize Your E-Commerce PPC Campaign BuildsOver the last couple of years, the prioritization of e-commerce PPC campaign builds has shifted dramatically. With the rise of Google Shopping and […]
The EU’s Right To Be Forgotten Is A Mess & How Google’s Making It Worse
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions,” the saying goes. There are plenty of good intentions with the EU’s Right To Be Forgotten mandate, as well as Google’s attempt to meet new obligations under it. Things are still going to hell regardless. Thanks to the new right, the EU has helped enable convicted […]
Google Orders Terminator Robots Not To Kill Founders Brin & Page
How do you stop the unstoppable killer Terminators if you’re not Sarah Connor? Google does it with a simple text file. People have noted today that Google has a special “robot.txt” file that pokes fun at stopping the Terminators. Robots.txt files are actually used to stop robots of the less threatening kind – it’s like […]
SearchCap: Bing + Twitter, Foursquare Fees & Okay Google
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Ups Its Twitter Game: Rolls Out Hashtag & Twitter Handle Search Features Starting this week, Bing users are going to see even more Twitter content in search results. As a […]
Larry Page On Right To Be Forgotten: “Could Have Arrived At More Practical Place Than Court Ruling”
Larry Page offered his thoughts on the European court’s “Right To Be Forgotten” ruling during an interview at Google’s I/O conference this week with New York Times reporter Farhad Manjoo. Page claimed it would have been better if there had been more discussion around the matter. “We could have arrived at a more practical place […]
Search In Pics: Google Analytics Bot, Larry & Sergey Aging & Google’s Don’t Be Evil Room
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.
How Google’s New “Right To Be Forgotten” Form Works: An Explainer
Google has taken a big step forward in complying with the European Union’s new “Right To Be Forgotten” that was established after a court ruling earlier this month. The company has created a new form allowing those in the EU to request takedown of URLs they dislike. Removals will only happen for EU-versions of Google, […]
SearchCap: Bing Snapshot Expands, How “Right To Be Forgotten” Works & More
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Expands Snapshot With New Food & Drug Entities Bing is getting smarter today with the addition of food- and drug-related entities to its library of facts. The new at-a-glance information […]
The Google State Of The Union: Strong Yet Vulnerable
Earlier today, Google published its annual Founders’ Letter. This is a kind of “Google State of the Union” missive that Google has published annually since it went public. Many bloggers picked up on the following remark in the document penned by Google CEO Larry Page: “[I]n many ways, we’re a million miles away from creating […]
SearchCap: Pinterest Guided Search & Baidu Earnings Report
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Baidu Beats Expectations, Posts 59 Pct Revenue Growth In Q1 2014 Chinese search engine leader and advertising provider, Baidu, released financials for the first quarter of the year reporting total revenues […]
Search In Pics: Jamie Foxx At Google, Panda Boarding Train & Yahoo JFK Airport Ads
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.
States Threaten Action If Google Doesn’t Delist “Illegal Sites”
According to the Washington Post, 24 state attorneys general are trying to pressure Google to discontinue ads and the indexing of sites they argue teach or enable criminal activity. In particular, they continue to pressure Google to eliminate advertising connected to the sale of illegal or fake prescription drugs. The attorneys generals’ complaints were initially […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 24, 2014
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 Slaps Greek Sites With Penalties It appears that Google has taken action on spammers, potentially link spammers, in Greece recently. Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, responded on Twitter […]
Live Blog: Head Of Google Search Amit Singhal Keynote At SMX West 2014
Good evening/afternoon (or early morning for our European readers!) from sunny San Jose, Calif., where day one of our SMX West conference is almost finished. We’re wrapping up the Marketing Land Digital Marketing Summit with a keynote conversation between Google’s Amit Singhal and Danny Sullivan, founding editor of both Marketing Land and Search Engine Land. […]
With Nadella’s Appointment, The “Search CEOs” Now Run Google, Yahoo & Microsoft
Satya Nadella being named CEO of Microsoft isn’t just big news for Microsoft. It’s big news for search. For the first time in ages, the three major search companies in the US are all run by CEOs who either came out of a search-background or have a solid understanding of it. Despite the attention search […]
DeepMind Buy Another Google “Moonshot” Of Sorts
Re/code offers some additional insight into the $400+ million acquisition of artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepMind that was reported last week. The people at DeepMind will apparently work with the search team at Google but not exclusively: Or as search is known at Google today, the “Knowledge” group, so-called because it no longer just finds […]