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This day in search marketing history: March 6
Google Webmaster Tools adds user administration, plus: no click search study, Trusted Stores program shuttering and more.
Would you have pursued a four-year degree in PPC or SEO?; Tuesday’s daily brief
And, the Marketoonist provides some perspective on what consumers really care about.
Branch offers first deep-linking from ads on AMP pages to app content
The deep-linking provider is out with ads for AMP that can link directly to specific content in apps.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 17, 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 PPC Trend? Staples & Toys”R”Us Among Top Advertisers With More Impressions From PLAs Than Text Ads [AdGooroo Study] Advertisers have flocked to Google AdWords Product Listing Ads (PLAs) since Google […]
Google Delays Second Campus Construction, Buys More Space Near GooglePlex
Two stories out this week are drawing attention to Google’s future office expansion plans. Days ago, we reported on our partner site at Marketing Land that the construction of Google’s new Bay View campus has been delayed temporarily. Today, there is news that Google has purchased nearly 15-acres in Palo Alto, a portion of which […]
Report: Google To Bid For Waze — To Shut It Down?
According to a just-published Bloomberg report, Google is preparing a bid for Waze. Earlier this month, rumors indicating Facebook was in late-stage acquisition talks with Waze for roughly $1 billion appeared online. Other parties (Apple, Microsoft) may now also be interested in the social mapping service. According to the Bloomberg report: Waze is fielding expressions […]
Google Introduces Offline Maps For Mobile, Claims A Billion Users Globally For Maps, Earth
During its “next dimension” event this morning Google sought to convey to an audience of tech journalists and others how much effort, expense and care it has invested in Google Maps. Indeed, the platform is roughly eight years old and has seen enormous growth and evolution. The rumored and much discussed potential launch of an […]
Groupon Buys Travel Search Site Uptake Mostly For Headcount
Uptake was an ambitious travel site that never quite broke through. It used social data and sentiment analysis to try and provide better travel discovery and decision support to its users. Originally called Kango, we wrote about the site in 2008 when it relaunched as Uptake. AllThingsD today reported that Uptake had been acquired by Groupon for […]
Yandex Joins Bing, Yahoo In Using Nokia-Navteq Map Data
Russian search giant Yandex announced that it will be licensing data from Nokia-owned Navteq to offer better and more comprehensive maps coverage around the world: Yandex . . . has purchased a license for digital maps supplied by the leading global location content provider, NAVTEQ. These digital maps will be used in the development of […]
“Grand Theft” Android: Jobs Bio Reveals Intense Anger At Google, But Didn’t Block Search Deals
We already knew that Steve Jobs felt betrayed by Google’s launch of Android but wow, was he really mad. But oddly, despite vowing nuclear war against Google, as his forthcoming bio reveals, he kept Google as the search default in Apple products. The AP obtained a copy of the authorized Jobs bio that comes out […]
Russian Search Engine Yandex Leads $30 Million Investment In Blekko
Blekko is the either the fourth US search engine or the third if you no longer consider Yahoo a search engine. And the company has been able to maintain visibility and stir the pot with its persistent criticism of Google search results being spam-filled. Now Blekko has secured $30 million in new funding from a […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 28, 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: Number Crunchers: Who Lost In Google’s “Farmer” Algorithm Change? On Thursday, Google announced a major change to its search algorithm, designed to weed out shallow and low-quality content from its top […]
Videos Of The First Googleplex
The Xooglers Blog has been posting videos of the old GooglePlex, old Google office from back in November 1999. I believe these videos are from the office Google had at 2400 Bayshore, Mountain View. As Alex said, Google started off in Susan Wojcicki’s garage, then moved to 165 University Ave in Palo Alto, then to […]
Google Acquires SayNow
SayNow has announced Google has just acquired them. SayNow has a platform that allows voice messaging, one-on-one conversations, and group calls to be instantly integrated into Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Android, or iPhone applications. SayNow’s cofounders, Nikhyl & Ujjwal, said: We are thrilled to announce that we have been acquired by Google. Since 2005, we’ve explored […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 30, 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: Google AdWords Gets New ‘Click Type’ Report If you take advantage of some of the relatively new AdWords features like click-to-call, Sitelinks, and Product Ads, there’s a new report in your […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 19, 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: Google Search Results Dominated By One Domain Is it a test? Is it a bug? Is it a permanent change to Google’s search results? No one knows, and Google hasn’t answered […]
Live Blogging the Facebook Places Launch
I’m at Facebook HQ in Palo Alto where CEO Mark Zuckerberg is on stage in a jam-packed room that more resembles a wedding or luau than a press conference. He’s now announcing Facebook Places. He says Facebook Places seeks to accomplish three goals. Helping people share where they are See who’s around you See what’s […]
Google And Yelp Express “Complicated” Relationship In Conference Interview
There’s nothing that jaded and weary conference goers love more than to see some “red meat” conflict between panelists during a session. And that’s what TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld repeatedly tried to elicit in an on-stage interview of Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman and Google’s John Hanke during the Social Currency CrunchUp event yesterday in Palo Alto […]
Will Quora Challenge Google? No. Is It Useful? Yes
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal ran an article in conjunction with Quora‘s public beta launch. The article framed the discussion as Quora (and its kin) vs. Google: The race to build a successor to Web search is heating up as a number of young companies seek to fill gaps they see with Google Inc. One […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 26, 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: Doodle 4 Google Winner Announced: Melton’s Rainforest Habitat Google announced the winner of the 3rd annual Doodle 4 Google competition. The Doodle is viewable above and will be displayed on the […]
Live Blogging Facebook’s “Simpler Privacy Controls” Press Conference
Facebook is holding a special press conference today, where it will be discussing the new “simplied” privacy settings that the company has developed in hopes of easing recent concerns over privacy. I’ll be live blogging the news. NOTE: See Drill (Down), Baby, Drill: Facebook’s New “Simple” Privacy Settings Still Pretty Complex, our story after this […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 26, 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: Does CEO Coffee Summit Equal Détente For Apple, Google? Gizmodo shows amazing pictures of Steve Jobs and Google CEO Eric Schmidt having coffee in a public place in Palo Alto, CA. […]
Does CEO Coffee Summit Equal Détente For Apple, Google?
Gizmodo shows amazing pictures of Steve Jobs and Google CEO Eric Schmidt having coffee in a public place in Palo Alto, CA. Here is one of the shots from the encounter, which reportedly ended or moved when a crowd started gathering: While Apple and Google were close partners and even collaborators for several years Google’s […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 28, 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: Ballmer Blogs His Thoughts On Google, China Both current Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and former CEO Bill Gates have recently spoken out critically about Google’s stance on doing business in China. […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 1, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
AdSense Publisher Sues Google And Wins
Why I Sued Google (and Won) from the Huffington Post has a story about an AdSense publisher who sued Google and actually won. I have seen the beginning of the story hundreds of times in forum threads, emails and via Twitter. Google terminated the publisher’s AdSense account because of “posing a significant risk to advertisers.” […]
Google Latitude Turns Maps (For Mobile) Into Social Tool
Google Latitude is now live, a new service from Google that allows you to send your location to Google Maps and share it with friends via many mobile phones (not the iPhone yet, but that’s coming). Some might call the just-launched Google Latitude (part of a new version of Google Maps for Mobile) “son of […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 20, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 30, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
California Congressional Reps Urge Yes on Google-Yahoo Deal
The Google-Yahoo ad deal gained support in the form of a letter (PDF) from several of California’s congressional representatives asking that the Department Of Justice not to block the proposed arrangement. Led by Google and Yahoo’s "hometown" representative, Democrat Anna Eshoo from Palo Alto, the short letter signed by 11 US House Of Representative legislators […]
Human Hardware: Risk vs Reward, Expressed Through Search
We are emotional creatures. In fact, we are the most emotional creatures on the planet. Emotions are what cause us to act. The very word emotion means “to move” in Latin. Emotions move us to action. They cause us to avoid danger and pursue pleasure. They propel us to genetic propagation and steer us from […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 12, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 16, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Employee #53, Charlie Ayers (The Google Chef) Profiled On MSNBC
MSNBC has profiled Charlie Ayers, Google’s original chef, in this video. Charlie Ayers was employee number 53. He left Google back in 2005 to pursue his dream of running his own restaurant. He left with a great way to get started — 40,000 shares in Google worth about $26 million. Charlie was one of the […]