This day in search marketing history: February 26
Google expands mobile-friendliness for ranking, plus: mobile-first indexing, AdWords Flexible Conversion Counting, Google Panda and more.
Topic: Panoramio
SearchCap: Google app update, Bing & Google Ad Editor & holiday decorations
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 confirms testing movie and TV show ratings with like and dislike buttonsDec 6, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Google is now asking searchers to rate movies and TV shows. Google confirmed […]
SearchCap: Google Penguin links, link labels & RGB to Hex answers
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 Penguin looks mostly at your link source, says GoogleOct 10, 2016 by Barry Schwartz When we asked Google’s Gary Illyes about Penguin, he said SEOs should focus on where their […]
SearchCap: Google AdWords Inventory, EU-Google Antitrust & MapQuest Commute App
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 Now Lets Travelers Know When Flight Prices Drop Google is helping travelers save money with a new Now card that tells users when a price has dropped on a flight. […]
SearchCap: Google+ In Search, Bing Image Update, RTBF & Mistaken Google Penalties
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Image Search Updates Include Touch Friendly Result Pages That Adapt To Screen Size & Resolution Over the next few weeks, Bing is rolling out new updates to its image search […]
The End Is Near For Panoramio, Google To Migrate Photos To Google Maps Views
Googler Evan Rapoport announced this week that Google would be closing Panoramio, the geolocation photo site that lets users upload photos to Google Maps and Google Earth. In place of Panoramio, Google will be migrating photos to its Google Maps Views platform. In an interview with CNET, Rapoport said Panoramio didn’t have a wide enough […]
Google Mapping The Interior Of The Grand Canyon With Street View Cameras
Having driven literally hundreds of thousands of miles of surface streets and roads throughout the world, Google is increasingly going off road in its quest to make Street View comprehensive. Most recently the company took its on-foot Street View backpack cameras to the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Google is hiking the various trails that descend […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 19, 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: Home Depot To Correct Misleading Link Request It read like one of those bad link requests you get. Link to me, and you’ll rank better. It even suggested hiding the link. […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 4, 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: Bing: Why Google’s Wrong In Its Accusations Along with everything else going on for Bing’s Harry Shum on Tuesday — a panel about search spam, dealing with Google’s accusations that Bing […]
Bing (+ Facebook) Event Later Today — And We’ll Be There
As you’ve no doubt already seen, Bing is holding an event at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Campus at 11:30 Pacific/2:30 Eastern. Microsoft’s Qi Lu will be speaking and Facebook will be there. There should be some interesting news coming out of the event and we’ll be in attendance to report and “live blog” it here. The […]
Google Maps Adds Photo Albums
The experience of viewing place photos in Google Maps got a little easier this week. Google has announced that it’s now showing certain place images in a photo album. The album pops above the place as an overlay — similar to what you’ve probably experienced before via the Lightbox javascript application. The photo albums only […]
Secret Sauce: Leverage Outside Listings To Help Local Rankings
Google Maps (or Local, or Places, or whatever it is calling itself this month) is the bane of my existence. Well, maybe 3rd place behind Bing and Yahoo PPC platforms…but you catch my meaning. Inevitably, I can expect at least one phone call or email a week from a client asking why they’re not showing […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 1, 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: Is Google’s Street View Trike Headed Your Way? Google has announced the winners of its Street View Trike suggestions contest – a contest that started last October with Google inviting the […]
Google Adds Flickr, Picasa Photos To Street View
Google has been showing crowdsourced photos from its own Panoramio service in Street View for just about a year, and it’s now announced that user photos from both Flickr and Picasa are being added to the mix. The integration works the same way it has since last February; when images are available, a small box […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 23, 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: Short Vs. Long Tail: Which Search Queries Perform Best? The focus on the utility (or lack thereof) of long tail keywords in paid search campaigns seems to ebb and flow, but […]
8 Opportunities To Optimize Content Beyond Local Listings
Not to beat a dead horse, but as I said in my last column, I think 2009 was truly a watershed year for local search. Between Google’s introduction of the generic 10-pack, its beta test of local listing ads, dramatic improvements to Bing’s Local Listing Center, and numerous partnerships throughout the industry— all of these […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 21, 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 Beats Estimates With Very Strong Q4: $6.67 Billion Google posted a very strong Q4, given the recession, with $6.67 billion in revenues. This beats financial analyst general consensus estimates. Here […]
Google Earth iPhone App 2.0 Available Soon
A new version of Google Earth for the iPhone is due soon, and among its new features is one with a personal touch: the ability to see maps you’ve created and/or saved in Google Maps. To make this happen, the new Google Earth iPhone app will add the ability to login to your Google account […]
Google Adds More User Photos to Street View
Google is now adding public geotagged Picasa images to Google’s Street View on Maps. According to the Google Lat Long Blog: Millions of people already rely on Picasa Web Albums to share their photographs with friends and the internet community. Now, their public geo-tagged photos will help Google Maps users to get a better impression […]
Google Maps Plots Attractions, Points Of Interest
Google keeps adding layers of data to its maps: images, articles, video, user lists and so on. In addition to a new, dedicated Street View site, the Google LatLong Blog yesterday announced that it had added “icons and labels of prominent businesses and places of interest directly on the map itself.” This effectively enables users to […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 27, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Geekynomics? Finding The Hidden Government Within Google’s Magic Money Machine Joseph Heath, a philosophy professor at the University of Toronto, has published the timely Filthy Lucre: Economics for People Who Hate […]
Google Street Views Allows Zooming In On Panoramio Photos
In February, Google added Panoramio pictures to Street Views, and today, Google is giving users the ability to zoom into those pictures. The new feature visually shows you which parts of the image has higher resolution, and then allows you to click on that section of the picture to zoom in. This is a neat […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 20, 2009
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 Seeks Privacy Counsel With Gov’t Ties Google Watch points out a job posting on the Google site for “Privacy Policy Counsel” based in Washington, DC. Given that Google is under […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 10, 2009
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 Adds Photos To Some Location-Based Search Results Google has announced a minor change to its search results page for some geographic-based queries. To fill in the white space that used […]
Google Adds Photos To Some Location-Based Search Results
Google has announced a minor change to its search results page for some geographic-based queries. To fill in the white space that used to appear next to the small map, Google is now pulling in user-contributed photos from its Panoramio photo-sharing site. (Marketers: This is another reason to start using Panoramio if you’re not already.) […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 26, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Maps Adds User Photos To Street View
Google has added geo-tagged Panoramio photos to StreetView images. According to the Google LatLong Blog it’s done automatically: Google’s image-matching algorithms will analyze them at some point to see if they are also a good match for a Street View location. Google has offered images on Maps for some time, but not directly integrated into StreetView […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 12, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Earth For The iPhone Released
Google announced the release of Google Earth for the iPhone (iTunes link). It is a free app that brings many of the features of the desktop version of Google Earth, to your iPhone. I played around a bit with the app and I am very impressed. It takes advantage of many of the iPhone’s capabilities. […]
Google’s Pittman Talks About Visual Search & Facial Recognition Capabilities
Beet.TV interviewed R.J. Pittman, Google’s Director of Product Management for Consumer Search Properties, about image search. The video is below, but here is my short summary of the interview. Pittman said Image Search has huge growth opportunity for Google. Google explained that text doesn’t always describe the image, so they use other techniques. They use […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 20, 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, May 19, 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, May 15, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Maps Adds “More” Button For Displaying Videos, Pictures, Wikipedia, & More Content
Google’s LatLong Blog announced new ways of finding more content on Google Maps, including geo-tagged YouTube videos, pictures from Panoramio, and localized Wikipedia content. We already covered the Google Maps Explore feature, but let me take you through similar content by way of the new “More” button. Lets travel to the Union Square area of […]
Google Incorporates Geodata In API, Partners With ESRI, Yahoo Introduces “Internet Location Platform”
Google’s John Hanke keynoted the Where 2.0 conference this morning and discussed the development and evolution of the “geoweb.” But he also announced that KML files (now a public standard) and GeoRSS data (I believe) being indexed by Google are now going to be available to third parties via the Google API. That means things […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 9, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web
Google Maps Opens Up Editing To Everyone
Last year in November Google opened up Maps to community editing, allowing people to move the pushpin markers to correct or improve the accuracy of business locations. John Hanke, Director of Maps & Earth, told us at the time that Google would move beyond just place markers and allow registered users to edit Maps more […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 25, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Search Year 2007: Search News, In Review
Each month, I compile Search Month — a recap of all the stories that have happened relating to search, categorized by topic. I thought it would be fun to take all the Search Months over the past year and produce this edition of Search Year 2007. It was far more work than I imagined, but […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 31, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.