Bing Ads Editor For Mac Is On The Way, Really
Mac users are finally getting their due from Bing Ads: a desktop editor that comes with an updated UI and new features.
Topic: MacOS
SearchCap: Google Gets More Time To Respond To EU, 6 Local SEO Stats & PPC Ad Tips
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 Maps Plus Codes Now Searchable, Making Hard-To-Find Places Easier To Locate Google’s Open Location Codes can now be searched on both Google and Google Maps. Is Google Experimenting With Bringing […]
Hooray, Bing Ads Makes It Possible To Save Column Settings
This is one subtle change that will make a big difference in managers' daily lives.
Apple Confirms Their Web Crawler: Applebot
Apple finally confirms they have a web crawler, primarily used for Siri and Spotlight Suggestions.
SearchCap: Twitter On Google, Bing Maps Transit & Search Behavior Study
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 Mobile Search Tests Colored Dots In Result Snippets Yet another user interface being tested in the Google Mobile search results… 6 Search Tips For Travel Advertising Success Advertisers in the […]
Twitter’s Full Google Search Integration Is Coming In May
Twitter CEO doesn't offer a specific date or details. He also says that Twitter is working with Apple to add Twitter content to Spotlight search on iOS and OS X.
Search Engine Land’s Top 10 News Stories Of 2014: When Pandas, Penguins & Pigeons Attack
We begin two weeks of year-in-review articles with a look at the most popular news stories we covered in 2014.
Report: Google-Apple Safari Search Deal Expiring, Yahoo & Bing Want In
According to The Information Google’s default Safari search deal with Apple is up in 2015. Microsoft and Yahoo are reportedly separately competing for the Safari business across devices. The Information says that both companies are pitching to Apple’s Eddie Cue and that his decision will be based “on the quality of the product as much as the potential […]
Apple Webcrawler: More Potential Evidence Of Search Ambitions
Apple Insider reports on the discovery of a web-crawling bot originating from Apple’s servers. It was first “outed” by developer Jan Moesen. This is what Moesen saw: Moesen reports that the bot is only crawling HTML, “not the CSS, JavaScript or image files.” Then he asks whether this is an “official Apple project” or just “someone crawling the web […]
Bing Adds New Crawlers To Support Non-Responsive Mobile Designs
Bing announced a new set of mobile crawlers with Bingbot Mobile User Agents to better support and recognize mobile websites that are not responsively designed. Lee Xiong from the Bing Crawl team explained Bing has designed these new crawlers to “probe websites with a number of new crawlers with the aim to give us the best […]
SearchCap: Google Penguin 3.0, Apple Spotlight & IAB Digital Advertiser Numbers
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 Releases Penguin 3.0 — First Penguin Update In Over A Year Google has confirmed to Search Engine Land that it updated its Penguin filter on Friday. Penguin targets sites deemed […]
Apple Capturing Spotlight Search Query Data, Sharing With Bing
An improved Spotlight Search is a central feature of Apple’s new Yosemite operating system for the Mac. As reported when Yosemite was announced in June, Spotlight searches your desktop but also provides web search suggestions from Bing. There are a number of structured data sources such as Wikipedia, Maps and Fandango that also show up in results. Bing’s role in Spotlight wasn’t […]
Expert Insights On The Future Of SEO, Part 1
Do you have the skills it will take to thrive in the SEO environment of the future? In the first of this 3-part series, search industry veterans weigh in on how things will be different in 2015.
Bing Ads Lays Out Plans For Coming Year: More Scale, New Ad Formats, Eventually Automation
“As great as this past year was, I’m more excited about FY15 than I’ve ever been,” said Microsoft’s David Pann, General Manager for the Search Network, by phone this week about Bing Ads as the company starts its next fiscal year. “All the fundamentals are set,” he added. Recapping the successes of this past year […]
SearchCap: Bing’s 5th Birthday, Connect Google+ Pages & China’s Censorship
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: New: Connect Your Google+ Business Page To Your Google Maps Listing Google has now enabled those with Google+ business pages to connect their page to their local business listing on Google […]
At Five Years Old, Bing Has Come Far Yet Has More To Grow
Microsoft’s Bing search engine has turned five this week. There are good reasons for some birthday celebrations at Microsoft. The company has created a solid competitor to Google, grown its market share and created a search platform for other Microsoft products. But when it comes to mindshare, Bing is still far behind rivaling Google as […]
SearchCap: Mac Spotlight Drops Google, DuckDuckGo Added To Safari & Google Eyes Free
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Big Win For DuckDuckGo: Apple Adding To Safari As Private Search Option DuckDuckGo, the search engine that positions itself as a completely secure and private search engine, is getting a big […]
Big Win For DuckDuckGo: Apple Adding To Safari As Private Search Option
DuckDuckGo, the search engine that positions itself as a completely secure and private search engine, is getting a big boost. Apple is making it part of Safari in the next versions of Mac OS and iOS as an option that users can choose. DuckDuckGo is now featured as an option that will be part of […]
Apple Drops Google For Bing As “Spotlight” Search Provider In iOS 8 & Mac OS X “Yosemite”
Bing has gained another win with Apple, becoming integrated into a new version of Spotlight in Apple’s forthcoming Mac OS X “Yosemite” operating system and in the coming iOS 8 mobile operating system. Spotlight will also tap into a wide-range of search resources similar to how Siri works on iOS. During Apple’s WWDC keynote today, […]
Google Now Comes To Chrome For Desktops & Laptops
Google’s amazing predictive search tool, Google Now, is finally being made available to people on desktop and laptop computers using the regular release of its Chrome browser. Until now, it had only been available through mobile devices or to those using beta versions of Chrome. Google shared the news via its Google Chrome account on […]
Apple Buys Ads On Google & Bing To Celebrate The Mac’s 30th Birthday
Leaving nothing to chance, Apple’s ensured that anyone searching for “Mac” on Google or Bing today, the 30th birthday of the Mac, will know about the anniversary. The company has purchased ads that lead to a special Mac birthday area of the Apple site. Above is an example of what shows on Google, for a […]
Google To Replace Smartphone User-Agent To Improve Smart Phone Indexing
Google announced they are replacing the old smartphone crawler user-agent with a new one in order to make it possible for Google to index more smartphone content. Zhijian He, a smartphone search engineer at Google said that the previous user-agent “made it impossible for Google to index smartphone content of some sites, or for Google […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 16, 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: Covario: Global PPC Click-Through Rates Hit New Highs, Spend Up 17 Percent YoY In Q4 Though the numbers vary, the Q4 reports we’ve covered all point to solid year-over-year increases in […]
Google Now Cards Hit The Desktop For Mac, Windows and Chrome OS Users
The ever-helpful Google Now service is now available on your desktop for both Mac, Windows and Chrome OS users. This Google Now service features Google Now cards that are run through the latest Google Chrome build (Chrome Canary) and will work for those users who are currently logged-in to Chrome. According to the “Google Operating […]
Bing Ads Sneak Peeks Editor Updates, Acknowledges Burning Mac Version Question
Microsoft’s Ping Jen has posted a look at upcoming changes to Bing Ads Editor, the desktop tool for managing Bing Ads campaigns. The changes include an updated user interface (UI) and faster data uploading. The UI updates are designed to make the editor align with “what you’re already familiar with.” In other words, your “muscle […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 2, 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: Making Your Site Sticky For Both Search & Social Users You are probably well aware of the benefits of making a “sticky” site. Sticky sites — engaging, well-designed sites that visitors […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 31, 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: Helping Or Hurting: The Debate Over Google+ Local It’s been two months now since Google replaced Google Places with Google+ Local. The reactions thus far have been mixed: SEOs hailed it […]
More (Local) Searches Coming From iOS Than Android — Study
Ad network Chitika, which regularly publishes findings from activity on its network, has released some data that show owners of iPhones and iPads search more than Android owners. This is a bit counter-intuitive and unexpected, given how prominent search and the search box are on the homescreen of most Android handsets and how deeply integrated […]
Microsoft’s adCenter Improvements Rolling Out Fast And Furiously
A year and a half ago, changes to Microsoft’s adCenter interface appeared maybe once or twice a quarter. This year, stay tuned for monthly updates bringing everything from Broad Match Modifier, a desktop version for the Mac, a special version for small businesses, and more integrated interactive ads on Bing. “When we talk about the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 10, 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: Now, Mitt Romney Has A Santorum-Like Bing & Google Problem Perhaps Google may finally have to figure out a “fix” for Rick Santorum’s “Google Problem,” now that an anti-Romney site is […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 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: Googlebot Identifies Smartphone Content With New User-Agent Google has announced that its mobile crawler now has a user-agent that’s specific to smartphones. The company has already had a user-agent that targets […]
Googlebot Identifies Smartphone Content With New User-Agent
Google has announced that its mobile crawler now has a user-agent that’s specific to smartphones. The company has already had a user-agent that targets feature phones. The new Smartphone Googlebot-Mobile user agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7 (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +https://www.google.com/bot.html) […]
Twitter, Mozilla Strike Deal That Bakes Twitter Search Into Firefox 8 Search Box
Twitter and Mozilla have struck a deal that makes Twitter search one of the default search options in the new Firefox 8 web browser. It’s included in the Windows, Mac and Linux versions, which can be downloaded now. As Mozilla’s blog post explains, the Twitter search option can be used to search Twitter usernames, hashtags […]
AdWords Editor Version 9.5 Released For Windows And Mac
Google has released version 9.5 of its free desktop software for managing AdWords campaigns, adding support for campaign experiments and location extensions, among other recent enhancements to the AdWords web interface. Users can now manage their campaign experiments on the AdWords Editor, including applying and editing an experiment status, a default maximum CPC or a […]
Google & Motorola Mobility: The What’s It All Mean Edition
What a way to start the week. The company that once said it would never build its own mobile phones, Google, wants to buy mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility. The technosphere has gone into 5G coverage over the news. Here’s what I’ve been finding interesting and some thoughts. Patent Protection A big part of this […]
The Growing Portrait Of Google As A Big, Scary, Expanding Everywhere Copy Monster
Twice this year, Google’s been fairly frank and vocal about something competitors have done that it feels is unfair. Twice, I’ve watched the technosphere largely react by beating the company over the head with a “You do whatever you want and copy everyone else” stick. Does that measure up, and more so than for Google […]
Could You Turn A Windows 8 Smartphone Into A Windows 8 Computer?
One of the most interesting things out of Microsoft’s demo of Windows 8 yesterday that future tablets could easily be turned into fully functional Windows computers, since the OS is the same. But how about Windows 8 phones? Could you do that too? Would you interpret a smile from Windows president Steven Sinofsky to be […]
Google Chromebooks Out June 15, $349 For Consumers, $20-$28 Monthly For Educators/Business
At long last, the Google Chrome OS operating system is going prime time against Windows and Mac computers. On June 15, consumers can by them for a flat rate. Those in education and business have intriguing monthly payment options. Google shared details at its Googe I/O conference today, as well as in a blog post […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 18, 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: Demand Media: Panda’s Impact On eHow.com “Significantly Overstated” Demand Media says recent reports have “significant overstated” the impact of Google’s Panda update on eHow.com, its flagship website. In a brief statement […]
Q&A: Google’s Sengupta On The Chrome OS Cr-48 Laptop
Yesterday, after writing my review of the Google Chrome OS Cr-48 notebook, I had a chance to catch up with Google product management director Caesar Sengupta about the machine. Below, answers to question like dealing with external monitors to whether Google really believes this can replace current computers. Yes, it does. If you use the […]