What multilingual regions reveal about the future of AI search
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SearchCap: Google AdWords Snippets, Google Place Rich Snippets & Google Entertainment Results
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 CEO Crowley: “We Do Location Better Than Anybody Else” Dec 7, 2015 by Greg Sterling Foursquare has come a long way from its early days as a social “check-in” app. […]
SearchCap: King Of The United States, Break Up Google Conflict & 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: German Legislator Calling For Google Breakup Has Serious Conflict Of Interest The German member of the European Parliament behind the call to break up Google, Andreas Schwab, has a conflict of […]
SearchCap: Google Webmaster Tools API, Local Search On Apple Watch & The First Click Free Failure
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Apple Watch Brings Local Search To Your Wrist We don’t yet know how popular the Apple Watch will be when it goes on sale early next year. A “flash survey” conducted […]
SearchCap: AdWords Close Variants, comScore Search Rankings & Google Now Flights
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: ComScore: Yahoo Bounces Back From All-Time Low In Search Share After dropping below a 10% market share for search for the first time in June, Yahoo creeped back above that threshold, […]
SearchCap: Bing Ads Layout, Yelp Joins EU Google Antitrust & Twitter/Google 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’s EU Censorship Removes Links For More Than Just Names On Their Own It turns out that those in the European Union asking Google to “forget” links they don’t like that […]
SearchCap: Google’s Detailed Reconsideration Requests, Yandex Block Referrer & New AdWords Policy Center
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Russian Search Engine Yandex Now 100% “Not Provided,” Blocks Referrer Data Yandex announced (in Russian) today that they have now went 100% secure, encrypting all search queries, resulting in a huge […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 12, 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’s Matt Cutts On Being A Spam Fighter: Looking For Patterns & Always New Spam Efforts Google’s head of search spam Matt Cutts posted a longer video today answering what it […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 2, 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: French Court Orders Google, ISPs To Block Or Delist Video Sites The High Court of Paris recently decided that French ISPs and search engines (Google, Yahoo and Bing) must completely block […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 25, 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: Microsoft’s FY2014 Q1 Earnings Report Includes 47% Growth In Search Ad Revenue Yesterday’s Microsoft FY2014 Q1 earnings report showed the company generated $18.53 billion in total revenues, with 47 percent growth […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 1, 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: Maps Roundup: Google Avoids Waze Antitrust Fight, Scout Social Mapping, deCarta Route Patent Google spent just over $1 billion to take Waze away from Facebook, Apple or Nokia and Microsoft. It […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 30, 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: Facebook Now Let’s You Search Your Posts & Status Updates In Graph Search Facebook announced the launch of searching your posts and status updates within graph search. Facebook said, “Today, Graph […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 1, 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: New Bing Search By License Feature Filters Images Based On Usage Rights Bing announced a new “Search by License” feature today that filters images based on usage rights. The new feature […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 19, 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: Latest Google Shopper App Offers New Refinement Options & More Product Details Google Commerce has released Google Shopper 3.2, an updated version of its app that includes category-specific refinements for improved […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 23, 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: New Tumblr Blog Raises Privacy Concerns Over Facebook Graph Search That didn’t take long, did it? Tom Scott, one of the current users of Facebook Graph Search, has started a Tumblr […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 27, 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: Seeking Maps Fix, Apple Fires Mapping Team Manager And Asks Outsiders For Help According to a widely cited Bloomberg report published earlier today Apple has fired another executive in connection with […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 26, 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: Verisign Blames Google For Drop In Domain Registration & Renewal Rates The number of new domains being registered, and existing domains being renewed, is slowing down and Verisign — the company […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 14, 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: Google Q1 2011 Revenues $8.58 Billion, Some Investors Unhappy Google had a strong Q1 with $8.58 billion in gross revenue. Net revenue was $6.54 billion. Both figures were somewhat better than […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 3, 2010
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 Answers Hits One Billion Answers Yahoo Answers — by far the largest answer search engine on the web — says it passed the one billion answer mark within the past […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 13, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: How To Optimize A Mobile AdWords Campaign Google is going mobile in a big way. Following the announcement of Nexus One, the official Google phone, and the acquisition of adMob, Google […]
Google Ranks Real-Time Tweets Based On Followers?
The Technology Review magazine has an article named How Google Ranks Tweets. They interviewed Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow, who led development of Google’s real-time search, on the topic. Amit explained that in the social context, the number of people following someone is similar to the number of links pointing to a page. We know […]
Microsoft Hopes To Improve Bing With Page Hunt Game
MIT’s Technology Review reported on a new game designed by Microsoft, designed to help make Bing a better search engine. The game is named Page Hunt and it asks users to submit search queries that they think the site presented to them, should show up for, in Bing. The results are then scored and players […]
How Twitter Might Send Far More Traffic Than You Think
Over the past year, I’ve seen many people report that Twitter can send tons of traffic to a web site. Certainly I’ve seen first-hand how Twitter has become one of the top non-search referrer sources for Search Engine Land and for some other sites I oversee. But as much as you think Twitter is driving […]
SearchBiz: Facebook-Twitter Talks Fail; Yahoo Loses On Kelkoo; Google To ‘Take Over TV’ & More
Here’s our lead story in 140 characters: Facebook buying Twitter=fail. Allthingsd.com says $500m stock offer too low. Twitter unsure about selling. Talks over, but FB may try again. The longer version for those not active in microblogging: Facebook recently came up short in a serious bid to buy Twitter. Kara Swisher at allthingsd.com says Facebook […]
Google’s Research Director Peter Norvig On ‘The Future Of Search’
MIT’s Technology Review published an interview with Google Director of Research Peter Norvig that explores his (and presumably Google’s) thinking about problems in search and “next-generation” search functionality that Google is working on. There’s nothing strikingly new in the interview but it’s an interesting overview and window into some of the current projects.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Dec. 28, 2006
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Question & Answer Search Engines Ranked
Via Slashdot, What’s the Best Q&A Site? from MIT Technology Review tests several question and answer search engine services. They reviewed and ranked AnswerBag, Askville, Live QnA, Wondir, Yahoo Answers and Yedda. So how did they rank? Out of a total 12 points, Yahoo Answers scored 11 points, coming out tops.