Topic: New Year's Day

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Ecommerce

New Year 2014 Google Logo Keeps On Disco Dancing

Happy New Year! Today’s Google logo ushers in the New Year with the same logo as yesterday’s New Year’s Eve disco-themed logo, with one small change: 2013 is now 2014. The interactive logo includes the same spinning disco ball and vibrating speakers, but now the dancing numbers are 2014, as a sweaty number “3” makes […]

| Jan 1, 2014 at 7:41 am ET
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Ecommerce

2012 New Year’s Day Logos From The Search Industry

Welcome to 2012 and Happy New Years Day everyone! We wanted to share with you the logos and themes from the search engines for New Years! Google had two different logos, one for New Years Eve and the other for New Years Day. Bing had an outstanding video home page background: Yahoo had this nice […]

| Jan 1, 2012 at 11:02 am ET
PPC

4 New Year’s Resolutions Every Digital Marketer Can’t Live Without

Over the last 6 months in this column we have looked at all aspects of the overlap between search and display, from why search marketers could take over the world media budgets of the future, to advanced methods for retargeting and simple alternatives to attribution modeling. So to round out the year, we revisit the […]

| Dec 7, 2011 at 1:04 pm ET
Google

Google’s Mayer: “We Do Have Too Many Products” In Local

Google Maps. Google Places. Google Earth. Google Hotpot. Google Latitude. Google Street View. Different mobile and desktop versions of some of those. Different Android and iPhone versions of some. The list could go on. If you think Google has too many locally-oriented products, you’re not alone. Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP of Search who recently began […]

| Mar 14, 2011 at 3:08 pm ET
Facebook

Twitter’s New Year Tweet Record Shown In Stunning Video

Twitter started 2011 with a new record: 6,939 tweets were sent at four seconds after midnight in Japan. Twitter says that TPS rate (tweets per second) is more than double the previous high of 3,283 TPS during Japan’s World Cup soccer/football win over Denmark last summer. In a blog post detailing the new record, Twitter […]

| Jan 6, 2011 at 5:46 pm ET
Bing

New Year’s Eve & Day 2011 Logos From Google & Others

Happy New Year’s Eve everyone, except for you in the Australian region, where it is New Year’s Day! On behalf of the Search Engine Land team, we wanted to wish you all a happy and healthy 2011! As like in the past years, the search engines have special logos up for the New Years. Below […]

| Dec 31, 2010 at 8:52 am ET
SEO

Yahoo Laying Off About 600 Employees

This week’s rumors are true: Yahoo began laying off several hundred employees today. Reuters is reporting that most of the cuts affect about 600 employees, or 4% of Yahoo’s workforce. The layoffs, as expected, will come from Yahoo’s product division. This week’s rumor mill had suggested the layoffs would hit about 650 people, or 5% […]

| Dec 14, 2010 at 9:54 pm ET
Content

Twitter Hits 1 Billion Queries Per Day, Announces New Search Tech

If Twitter were like an old-style McDonald’s, the sign outside would have changed to “1 Billion Queries Served” today. And to keep serving up those queries to humans and machines alike, Twitter is now using a new underlying search technology. The news was announced in a post on Twitter’s Engineering blog today. Let’s take the […]

| Oct 6, 2010 at 10:33 pm ET
SEO

Where Have All The Old Tweets Gone?

Looking for old tweets? You won’t find any that are more than a week or so old on Twitter. Put the blame on all the massive number of new tweets coming in. The engines, they canna hold captain! Or that is, the search index behind Twitter Search can’t hold it all. NOTE: Since this was […]

| Jan 14, 2010 at 7:05 pm ET
Ecommerce

2009 New Years Day Logos from Google & Others

Happy New Years everyone! Below is a collection of logos for the special day from the search industry, reposted from my other search blog, here for everyone to see. On behalf of the Search Engine Land team, we would like to wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous 2009!

| Jan 1, 2009 at 9:25 am ET