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 […]
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 Integrates TripAdvisor Tools, Content Into Search Results Travel site TripAdvisor made two Microsoft-related announcements today. The company announced a Windows 8.1 app. But more significantly TripAdvisor and Bing are now […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Court Finds Google’s Book Scanning Is Fair Use: Highlights From The Ruling Nearly ten years after it began and eight years after Google was sued over it, Google’s program that scans […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: SEMPO Asks Search Marketers To Take 9th Annual State Of Search Survey Just after publishing its annual salary survey results, SEMPO is calling for participants to take part in its 9th […]
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 Changes AdWords Ad Rank Calculation, Now Factors In Ad Extensions And Formats Today, Google announced a change to Ad Rank, its ad serving calculation in AdWords that determines where your […]
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 [Not Provided] At 87% Of Google Search Traffic To Major News Sites [Report] If you’ve been hoping that the hypocrisy of Google hiding keyword referral data from natural search traffic […]
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 Will Google Hummingbird Impact Links? Here Are 6 Ways So you have a question you would like answered, and that question is: “How Will Google Hummingbird Impact Links?” It’s still […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Searching For The Voice Of Siri: Voiceover Actor Susan Bennett Says, “It’s Obviously Me” A story on CNN.com claims that Atlanta voiceover professional Susan Bennett is the original voice of Siri, […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Two Years Later, BitTorrent Now In Google’s Auto Completions Over two years ago, Google removed BitTorrent from the instant search auto-complete search suggestions. Now, it appears that when you begin typing […]
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 Ads Releases New API, Version 9 Microsoft rolled out version 9 of the Bing Ads API for developers to start using immediately. The API will include the following additions to […]
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 Updates Answers For Social And SEO Value It’s amazing to me that it took Yahoo so long to update its Answers property. Once a thriving Q&A network and social search […]
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 Quietly Brings Back RSS Feed Option To Google Alerts The Next Web reports Google has quietly added back the RSS Feed option to Google Alerts. I’ve confirmed the RSS Feed […]
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 Automatic Authorship With Google+ Sign In Google announced an even easier way to get your picture into the Google search results by adding automatic author attribution through Google+ signin. […]
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 Now: Update Intros Location-Aware Alerts Call it “Foursquare Now.” Today the company announced that it would begin rolling out a new push recommendations feature, initially to Android users and later […]
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 Gets 5,000 Reconsideration Requests Per Week Google’s head of search spam Matt Cutts announced in a recent video answer that Google receives about 5,000 reconsideration request per week through Google […]
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 One Brand Switched A Million URLs & Lived To Tell About It: 5 Questions With HomeAdvisor.com Last year, home improvement company HomeAdvisor.com underwent a monumental rebranding effort that included switching […]
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 Gains Car Rental, Concert Tickets, Reminders While You Search & More More cards have come to Google’s predictive search service, Google Now, including information to alert you to your […]
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: Here’s Why AdWords Cost Per Conversion Calculations Don’t Always Add Up In the past couple of weeks, the question of how Google calculates cost per conversion in AdWords has been […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: 72 Percent of PPC Marketers Plan To Spend Even More In 2014 [PPCHero Study] Hanapin Marketing has released its 2013 State of Paid Search report, revealing how PPC marketers are feeling […]
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 Local Ad View (And AdWords Click Type) Comes To Google Maps App Google is following up on the recent roll-out of its updated Google Maps app for Android and iOS […]
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: We Fight Search Spam In 40+ Countries & Internationalize Our Spam Algorithms Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts announced in a video that Google fights search spam […]
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: Websites Using ccTLDs Should Contain Content Relevant To The Specific County Code In his latest video, Google’s head of search spam Matt Cutts addresses whether or not it […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Yandex Q2 2013 Revenue Up 35% From This Time Last Year Russian search engine giant Yandex released its Q2 2013 financial results today, reporting revenues at RUR 9.2 billion or $281.2 […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Adobe First To Announce Support For Bing Product Ads Today, Adobe announced it’s first to market with support for Bing Product Ads. Very similar to Google Product Listing Ads, Bing Product […]
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 Agrees To Settle Lawsuit Over Passing Search Queries To Third Parties Google has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit that stems from two searchers accusing the company of sharing their […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Enhanced Campaigns Countdown: 10 Best Images That Told Us How You Really Feel T-minus just days until Google flips the switch on AdWords Enhanced Campaigns. For a bit of a break, […]
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 Schmidt: Hollywood Should Take Content Pirates To Court Google’s Eric Schmidt says that the entertainment industry should focus on taking content pirates to court, rather than just trying to get […]
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 AdWords Integration For Analytics Changes Campaign Name Reporting Google has announced a new AdWords integration for Google Analytics that starts rolling out today. The biggest immediate change is that campaign […]
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 Rolls Out Search Alerts For Web Search, Images & Video According to the Yahoo Search Tumblr blog, Yahoo Search Alerts for Web Search, Images and Video launched today. In the […]
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 To Bing Ads Location Extensions: Directions Links To Maps, Multiple Location Listings, Reporting By Location A couple of new features are coming to Bing Ads location extensions, which launched in […]
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 To End Sponsored Search Ads — For Now Facebook has said that it’s getting rid of sponsored search results for the time being. It’s not walking away from “search advertising,” […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: George Bush “Miserable Failure” Google Bomb Back, This Time In Knowledge Graph The Google Bomb is back! Searching for [miserable failure] in Google now returns George W. Bush’s knowledge graph in […]
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 Rolling Out Nutrition Information On More Than 1,000 Foods Building on their Knowledge Graph technology, Google search is rolling out nutrition information on more than 1,000 fruits, vegetables, meats […]
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 Glass Diary, Part 4: Local Search & Navigation Remember that first Google Glass video? It was published a little more than a year ago and gave the world its first […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Penguin 4, With Penguin 2.0 Generation Spam-Fighting, Is Now Live The fourth release of Google’s spam-fighting “Penguin Update” is now live. But, Penguin 4 has a twist. It contains Penguin 2.0 […]
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 Authority Boost: Google’s Algorithm To Determine Which Site Is A Subject Authority Yesterday, we covered and summarized the ten future Google SEO changes coming to Google’s search results by the […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Web Analytics Software Comparison: Identifying The Right Web Analytics Tools For Your Business If you’re considering using an analytics platform other than, or in addition to, Google Analytics, it can be […]
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 Expands List of “Generic” Top Level Domains and Makes Them Geotargetable Typically, the country-code top level domain (ccTLD) is just that — a country code. For instance, example.co.uk has content […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Coming: Bing Ads Keyword Distribution Graph To Visualize Your KPI Performance It’s not live yet, but Bing Ads is teeing up a new keyword visualization tool designed to help PPC managers […]
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: Our Search Results Do Not Infect Users, “Malware Study Was Wrong” Bing has responded to the malware study conducted by AV-TEST earlier this week, claiming that Bing search results led […]