Why OpenAI paused ChatGPT ads to fight Google’s Gemini
OpenAI bets its future on a distraction-free experience, sacrificing ad revenue to stop Google’s ecosystem from winning the AI crown.
Topic: Marriott Hotels & Resorts
Search Engine Land Awards 2025: Complete finalists list
We're excited to announce the nominations for this year's Search Engine Land Awards. Winners will be announced Oct. 27.
What is a landing page? Build pages that convert
Landing pages drive action. Learn what they are, how they work, and how to design high-converting pages for SEO, ads, email, and more.
Google brings the Assistant to Waze
Part of Google's Assistant everywhere strategy, Waze users will be able to 'avoid tolls' and 'report police' without touching the screen.
SearchCap: Google replacing video boxes, hoarding content & 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: Google changed the way it works, and no one really noticed Jun 19, 2018 by Patrick Stox If you missed the changes Google made late last year on labeling country services, […]
Amazon in deal with Marriott to make Alexa a ‘virtual concierge’ in hotel rooms
The program offers the potential for better customer experiences, but privacy concerns could slow deployment.
Google’s Pigeon Update Solves Yelp Problem, Boosts Local Directories
As the analysis continues on yesterday’s Google local search algorithm changes — that we’re calling the Pigeon update — one thing appears to be clear: Local directory sites are getting better visibility in Google’s search results. More specifically, it looks like Google has fixed its “Yelp problem” and is now showing Yelp pages at the […]
Google Preps “Hotel View” Interior 360 Imagery
Call it Google “Hotel View.” According to the Associated Press (via Fox), Google is photographing hotel interiors as part of an effort to enhance its travel content. Perhaps even more interesting, says the article, is that the initiative is being run not under the umbrella of Google Maps but through Google Wallet. It’s not clear whether […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 4, 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: Looking Back At Larry Page’s First Year At Google’s Helm Two articles appeared today that reflect on the first year of Larry Page’s return to the CEO role at Google. Bloomberg’s […]
SMX Advanced: Hotel Alert
As it has in past years, SMX Advanced in Seattle, on June 5 and 6, is nearly sold out. If you plan to attend, register soon! And once you have, be sure to make hotel reservations – at the two “official” conference hotels, the Marriott across from the Bell Harbor conference center is already sold […]
Google’s +1 A Potential Boon To Paid Search Marketers
For an in-depth overview of Google’s new +1 extension of social search, see Danny Sullivan’s Meet +1: Google’s Answer To The Facebook Like Button. In addition, Matt McGee has written How To Get Google +1 Buttons For Your Website for publishers interested in adding the new button. Danny’s article briefly discusses how +1 will be […]
Internal Google Document Reveals Struggles Over Data, Privacy: WSJ
Google’s internal debates over privacy and how to monetize the mountains of data it has about its users — including whether to monetize it at all — are detailed today by the Wall Street Journal. The lengthy article examines a confidential, seven-page “vision statement” that made the rounds at Google as far back as 2008. […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 15, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
A New Scourge For Yahoo: Affiliate Mapspam
I’ve been writing about Mapspam appearing in both Google and Yahoo search results for some time now. Mapspam is where black hat SEOs spam local search and map listings, and like all black hat techniques, it seems to get more sophisticated as the search engines find ways to combat the spammers’ techniques. There’s a new […]
1-800-Free411 To Launch Local Category Search
Jingle Networks’ free directory assistance (DA) service 1-800-FREE411 is slated this week to launch a new “category search” option, where you call to get matches of businesses in an area that relate to a category of interest (such as movie theaters in Los Angeles, or a dentist in San Francisco). To date Jingle has offered […]
Should Google Pay Off Brand Owners With Cut Of Keyword Sales?
I saw Should Google Give Brand Owners A Cut? from InsideGoogle earlier, about the idea of Google paying brand owners a share of revenues of those advertising on their names. Then a reader just emailed me asking what I think about the idea. OK, I’ll bite. In short — probably not. More on that below, […]