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Topic: New Year's Eve
This day in search marketing history: January 1
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Google Sept. 2019 Core Update ‘weaker’ than June core update
A detailed look at the early impact from the latest Google core update.
New Year’s Day 2018 Google doodle brings in the new year with a bright sunrise
The illustrated image includes the penguins featured in all of Google's holiday doodle series back home on a snow-filled landscape.
New Year’s Eve 2017 Google doodle brings back penguins for the holiday doodle series
Today's New Year's Eve image is the third entry in the series.
December global festivities Google doodle marks day 2 of Google’s holiday doodle series
Today's doodle shows Google's animated penguins celebrating the holidays with their warm weather friends.
New Year’s Day 2017 Google doodle features balloon drop to mark 1st day of the year
Google follows its New Year's Eve doodle with an animated image of celebratory balloons.
Google’s New Year’s Eve logo for 2016
Here is the New Year's Eve Doodle from Google all decked out in jumpy balloons.
Authors Guild Appeals Lower Court Decision Backing Google’s Book Digitizing Project
The issue is whether Google’s project violates the copyrights of some of the millions of scanned books, or whether it has a valid “fair use” exception.
What Will Hatch Tomorrow In Google’s New Year’s Eve Doodle?
Wishing you all a very happy and healthy New Years and have some fun by checking out the Google Doodle as it hatches.
SearchCap: Bing Ads Feature Changes, SEO Hype & Search Trends
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: PPC Paydirt: Check Out Our Top Paid Search Columns Of 2015!Dec 29, 2015 by Jessica Thompson From retargeting tactics to time-saving AdWords scripts, our top SEM columns from the past year […]
2014 Trending Topics Highlighted In Google’s New Year’s Eve Logo
Today's Doodle highlights the year's most popular trends, including the World Cup, Philae robotic lander and ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.
An SEM Christmas Carol: Q4 Past, Present & Yet To Come
SEM no longer lives in a vacuum, Columnist Susan Waldes argues. Do you have the resources to thrive in an increasingly complex future?
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 […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 31, 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: Infographic: The Biggest Changes To Google Search In 2013 What were some of the biggest changes to Google Search in 2013, in terms of how its search algorithms ranked and displayed […]
New Year’s Eve 2013 Google Logo Is Bringing In The New Year With A Disco
Today’s Google logo is celebrating New Year’s Eve disco-style. The interactive logo includes a spinning disco ball, pounding speakers and a light-up dance floor. The numbers for “2013” dance away, while the number “4” awaits to takes its spot with glancing eyes. Clicking the logo delivers search results for “New Year’s Eve 2013.” The logo […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 5, 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: The Test Begins: Do Google Shopping & Other Shopping Search Engines Give You The Best Deals? It sounds pretty damning. Two recent surveys suggest that Google Shopping isn’t leading searchers to […]
WhitePages Report Highlights Sad Side Of Season With Spike In Dating & Pet Searches During Holidays
Using search data from 2012, today’s WhitePages report shows just how depressing the holiday season can be. According to the site, last year witnessed a 265 percent increase in searches for dating services, and more than double the average number of searches for pet stores during the days between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve. “The […]
Wayback Machine Now Has 240 Billion URLs
The Wayback Machine from the Internet Archive, one of the most useful and important Internet research tools, recently reached a major milestone. In a blog post, archive founder Brewster Kahle announced that The Wayback Machine now provides access an index containing more than 240 billion URLs (about five petabytes of data), with archived pages dating […]
Google’s New Year’s Day Logo Cleans Up The New Year’s Eve Logo
Today on Google’s home page, you will find a special logo for New Year’s Day. The logo represents what most people and venues are doing during the day after New Year’s Eve – cleaning up. Here is today’s logo showing how the Google logo is cleaning itself up for tomorrow: Here was the logo from […]
Google’s Doodle Of Doodles For New Years Eve 2012
If you visit Google today, New Years Eve, you will see a very busy Google logo. The logo makes up many of the best Google Doodles created in 2012. In a sense, it is a Google Doodle of Google Doodles. The Google Logo links to the specific Google Doodles directly in the Google Doodle Directory. […]
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 […]
Tweets About Steve Jobs Spike But Don’t Break Twitter Peak Record
As with Google, Twitter saw a spike in activity related to the death of Steve Jobs. However, the company said that the number of tweets per second didn’t break new records. The Peak Records Twitter told us that at 5pm PT yesterday, it saw 6,049 tweets per second happening at peak, with tweets continuing throughout […]
Google’s 2011 Winter & Summer Solstice Logos
Today is the first day of Summer season for those in the United States and many other countries, for others it is the first day of Winter. This is also known as the Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice. For the special day, Google has logos for both, depending on which Google portal you go to, […]
Google’s Father’s Day Logo & More 2011 Logos
Today is Father’s Day in the U.S. and many other countries. To celebrate the day, Google has a special tie logo. Bing, Yahoo and other search engines have special logos and themes as well. Here they are: Google: Yahoo (animated): Yahoo (not-animated): Bing: Ask.com: DogPile: Baidu: Sogou: Search Engine Roundtable: Related Stories: Google’s 2011 Mother’s […]
Twitter Sees Highest “Sustained” Activity Ever In Wake Of Osama Bin Laden News
Twitter has released new numbers showing last night’s announcement that Osama bin Laden was dead generated the most activity on the service that it has ever seen, in terms of “sustained rate of tweets.” From 10:45 PM Eastern time on May 1 through 12:30 AM on May 2, there were on average 3,440 tweets per […]
Thomas Edison’s 164th Birthday Celebrated With Google Logo
Google is featuring a special Google logo, also known as Google Doodle, for the 164th birthday of Thomas Edison. The logo illustrates some of Edison’s most famous inventions including the electric light bulb, phonograph, and the motion picture camera. Edison holds over 1,000 U.S. patents and is the most well-known inventor of all time. Here […]
Super Bowl Sparks Twitter Record For Sporting Event
Fans watching the final few moments of the Super Bowl last weekend set a new record for Tweets-per-second (TPS) for a sporting event: 4,064 Tweets were sent at 10:07:16 p.m. EST, according to Twitter. The previous TPS record, of 3,283, was set during Japan’s 3-1 win over Denmark during the World Cup soccer tournament last […]
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 […]
Google’s New Years Countdown Via I’m Feeling Lucky
Google has a fun little search easter egg for the new year. If you go to Google, make sure the search box is empty and click on the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button, you will see large numbers counting down under the search box. It is a countdown to new years, which is 1521557 seconds or […]
The 2007 Paid Links War, In Review
The paid links debate is back, this time about whether Google wants all links in a paid post to have a nofollow attribute. Below, a look at the latest round, plus a recap of this year’s "War On Paid Links" by Google and where the other search engines stand on the subject.