Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Wikipedia Appears On Google’s Page One 46 Percent Of The Time, Compared to 31 Percent On Bing [STUDY] A new study suggests that Wikipedia gets better visibility on Google than 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: Video: Google Speaks About Search Quality Raters Google’s head of web spam, Matt Cutts, has published a video talking about a topic that Google has never really talked about publicly before […]
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 Update Recovery Tips & Advice Struggling to know what to do in the wake of Google’s Penguin Update? Judging from all the comments and forum discussions we’ve seen, plenty are. […]
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 Shuts Down Patent Search, Google Related Toolbar, One Pass & Vaccine Finder After only eight months, the Google Related toolbar is headed to the dead pool. That’s one of several […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Looking Back At Larry Page’s First Year At Google’s Helm Two articles appeared today that reflect on the first year of Larry Page’s return to the CEO role at Google. Bloomberg’s […]
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 Removes Author: Search From Google News You can no longer search for articles from specific authors in Google News. As Barry Schwartz reported this morning on Search Engine Roundtable, using […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Search Engine Market Share Remains Steady In October, comScore Says There wasn’t much change in U.S. search engine market share during October based on the latest numbers that comScore is reporting […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: AdSense Publishers Get Display Reporting By Network Google has long allowed approved third-party networks to serve inventory into its AdSense display network, and now it says publishers will begin 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: US Government Makes Most Content Removal Requests To Google So Far in 2011 The US government sent Google 5,950 content removal requests in the first half of 2011, more than triple […]
I have attended many conferences in the last ten years, including Search Marketing Expo, Search Engine Strategies, and Internet retail events. Generally speaking, I’ve been pretty impressed with all of them. However, the reality is, these conferences are expensive. In fact, the average cost of attendance is around one-thousand dollars, not to mention the cost of […]
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+ Poised To Become Number Two Network In 12 Months According To Survey A Bloomberg-YouGov survey of 1,003 online adults found that Google+ is on a trajectory to surpass other social […]
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 12 Sitelink Experiment Returns Google is once again testing — or continuing to test — a jumbo-sized search result that displays a whopping 12 sitelinks below the main/top search result. […]
Google is once again testing — or continuing to test — a jumbo-sized search result that displays a whopping 12 sitelinks below the main/top search result. Here’s one example of how it looks: That’s an image posted yesterday by Seer Interactive, where their blog post has additional screenshots showing 12 sitelinks for queries such as […]
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 Google Analytics Feature: Load Time Measurement Since the beginning of last year, Google Analytics has been pushing a faster load time by pushing the new asynchronous tracking code to being […]
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 State Of Online Marketing In Russia For online marketers, Russia offers two appealing qualities: It’s one of just five countries in the world where Google isn’t the market leader, and […]
The web is shifting rapidly, again. Search has seen accelerated growth over the last two years, at a quicker clip than any time over the last ten. This has been fueled primarily by innovations at Google. However, Bing is also pushing innovation rapidly and was cited by Google CEO Eric Schmidt as, their “biggest problem” […]
Already its own specialty of digital marketing and now almost 50% of all online advertising budgets, paid search has fully grown into its own channel. A quick bit of research can quickly uncover a multitude of blogs, books, tools, companies, etc. all focused on the topic and within this channel, there’s even more fragmentation and […]