Eric Schmidt stepping down as Executive Chairman of Google parent company, Alphabet
Longtime Google executive will transition to role of technical advisor.
Topic: Sergey Brin
Google marks its 19th birthday with a ‘Google birthday surprise spinner’ doodle
The spinner leads to searches for 19 different Easter egg games and quizzes launched during Google's 19 years.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai joins Alphabet board
During his tenure, Google's stock has increased from roughly $650 to $995.
SearchCap: Bing Ads Editor update, Bing Ads voice metrics & Danny Sullivan changes
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Danny Sullivan: My new role as advisor for Third Door MediaJun 26, 2017 by Danny Sullivan Search Engine Land continues on strong, with an outstanding team in place. Bing Ads Editor […]
SearchCap: Google algorithm update, Super Bowl search ads & voice 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: Unconfirmed Google algorithm update may be better at discounting links and spamFeb 3, 2017 by Barry Schwartz Did Google update their Penguin algorithm? Did Google block private blog network links? Something […]
Search in Pics: Google & Sergey Brin protests, an Asian conical hat room & Google Somalia store
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more. Google’s Sergey Brin protesting at San Francisco airport: Source: Twitter Googlers protest at the GooglePlex: Source: […]
When is Google’s birthday? Google turns 18 & makes itself a doodle to celebrate
Designed by doodler Gerben Steenks, the animated doodle leads to a search for "when is Google's birthday."
Search in Pics: Android Nougat statue, John Kerry in self driving car & a Google chandelier
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more. Android Nougat statue: Source: Google+ Gary Illyes gives Zineb a platypus toy: Source: Twitter Google chandelier: […]
The Google Dance Is Back For Search Engine Land’s SMX West Search Conference
After a hiatus since 2008, the "Google Dance" returns to the Googleplex, where Google will host a special event on March 2, 2016 for marketers attending Search Engine Land's Search Marketing Expo & Conference in Silicon Valley.
Irony Alert: Could Alphabet’s Hidden Link To Hooli Get It Banned In Google?
If you know where to look or click, there's a hidden link from Alphabet to Hooli, the fictional tech company in HBO's Silicon Valley comedy. But hidden links are a no-no with Google's search guidelines.
Is Bing Trolling Google & Alphabet With ABC.WTF Redirect?
Google's name change/reorganization prompts a witty response from Redmond.
Sundar Pichai Appointed Google CEO As Google Becomes Division Of Alphabet Inc.
In a totally unexpected development this afternoon, Google announced that it had formed a new holding company, Alphabet, Inc., and that Google would be a wholly owned subsidiary of that entity. In addition, Google co-founders Page and Brin will become CEO and President of the new company, respectively, turning over daily control of Google to Sundar Pichai, who […]
SearchCap: SEO Evolution, Megalytics & SEO Migration
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 Ascending: The New Brand Strategy Advertisers have long used paid search as a direct response tool to reach consumers who are ready to make a purchase, but columnist John Cosley […]
Getting Better, But Google Still Has Work On Piracy: The Game Of Thrones Story
The search engine scores exceptionally well fighting piracy on generic searches for the popular TV series. But for the piracy-prone searches it's supposed to be targeting, there are failures.
SearchCap: Google AdWords Bug, Algorithm Updates & SEO Visibility
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Advertisers Reporting Big Google AdWords Quality Score Declines Issue appears to be affecting accounts globally. Google has now announced a fix is rolling out. They Fooled Us All: Why Google May […]
Search In Pics: Google Cardboard Cubicles, Watch Store & The Founders In 1999
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
SearchCap: Google Panda Losers, Right To Be Forgotten & Google’s 16th Birthday
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: An AdWords Script To Make Exact Match, Well…Exact Many of you will have heard about Google’s decision to terminate exact match (at the same time as telling us that it’s for […]
Google Marks How Big Its Grown With Animated 16th Birthday Logo
Today’s Google logo marks the search engine’s sweet sixteen. Founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google started out as “BackRub” – a search engine Brin and Page originally constructed in 1996 using links to rank the importance of individual web pages. By 1998, “BackRub” had become Google, with Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim offering […]
Google Orders Terminator Robots Not To Kill Founders Brin & Page
How do you stop the unstoppable killer Terminators if you’re not Sarah Connor? Google does it with a simple text file. People have noted today that Google has a special “robot.txt” file that pokes fun at stopping the Terminators. Robots.txt files are actually used to stop robots of the less threatening kind – it’s like […]
Right To Be Forgotten Won’t Happen On Google.com
Many searchers and Google users are asking, will the Right To Be Forgotten form be a feature and option coming to the U.S. on Google.com. The answer is no! A few weeks ago, Google told us the removals will only be available in the European Union, that is until the U.S. government and court finds […]
Yes, Google Will Disclose “Right To Be Forgotten” Removals
The Guardian reports that Google may add a indication in the search results that content has been removed due to the Right To Be Forgotten European Union requirements issued last month. Google told us a couple weeks ago that they will indeed add disclosure in the search results when something is removed from their search […]
Search In Pics: Google Analytics Bot, Larry & Sergey Aging & Google’s Don’t Be Evil Room
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
EU Regulators Meet Amid “Right To Be Forgotten” Confusion
The caution “be careful what you wish for” might be appropriate going into a meeting of 28 European privacy regulators in Brussels this week. Following the European Court of Justice’s creation of the Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF) and Google’s launch of a web form to field requests (now over 41,000), privacy officers must come […]
SearchCap: No Google Penguin Update, First Anchor Text & Knowledge Graph AdWords
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: No, Google Says There’s Been No Penguin Update This morning, I noticed a lot of buzz around a possible Google Penguin update. The SEO space was noticing huge changes in the […]
Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin: I Wish I Could Forget The “Right To Be Forgotten”
Tonight at the Re/Code conference in Southern California, Google co-founder Sergey Brin was interviewed on stage. He discussed many things, including the diverse range of “Google X” projects: indoor mapping (Tango), WiFi balloons (Project Loon), new prototype self-driving cars and more. Curiously the main interview, though wide ranging, didn’t get into the recent European Court […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 4, 2014
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 Testing New Search Results Design Bing is testing a new search results layout that changes the color of the logo from gray to the yellow/orange, changes the color of the […]
Search In Pics: David Hasselhoff With Sergey Brin, Gmail’s 10th Birthday Banner & Google Spam Cake
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 28, 2014
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: IE8 Users Don’t Get Forwarded To Google Secure Search At the moment, users of IE8, still the most popular version of the Internet Explorer browser worldwide, are being sent to unsecure […]
Search In Pics: Google Spam Fighting, Venom At The GooglePlex & Sergey Brin Sky Diving Again
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 24, 2014
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 Slaps Greek Sites With Penalties It appears that Google has taken action on spammers, potentially link spammers, in Greece recently. Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, responded on Twitter […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 21, 2014
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 To Tell Search Engines What “Entities” Are On Your Web Pages Search engines have increasingly been incorporating elements of semantic search to improve some aspect of the search experience — […]
Search In Pics: Sergey Brin With Ed Snowden, Google Water Balloon Launcher & More
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
Live Blog: Head Of Google Search Amit Singhal Keynote At SMX West 2014
Good evening/afternoon (or early morning for our European readers!) from sunny San Jose, Calif., where day one of our SMX West conference is almost finished. We’re wrapping up the Marketing Land Digital Marketing Summit with a keynote conversation between Google’s Amit Singhal and Danny Sullivan, founding editor of both Marketing Land and Search Engine Land. […]
With Nadella’s Appointment, The “Search CEOs” Now Run Google, Yahoo & Microsoft
Satya Nadella being named CEO of Microsoft isn’t just big news for Microsoft. It’s big news for search. For the first time in ages, the three major search companies in the US are all run by CEOs who either came out of a search-background or have a solid understanding of it. Despite the attention search […]
DeepMind Buy Another Google “Moonshot” Of Sorts
Re/code offers some additional insight into the $400+ million acquisition of artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepMind that was reported last week. The people at DeepMind will apparently work with the search team at Google but not exclusively: Or as search is known at Google today, the “Knowledge” group, so-called because it no longer just finds […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 8, 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: AdWords Offer Extensions Get Shut Down In Favor Of Google Offers In February, Google announced the limited release of AdWords Offer Extensions, which allowed advertisers to dedicate extra real estate in […]
Search In Pics: Microsoft Soda Can, Brin & Page Pegmen & Panda Parking
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 27, 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: WordStream Launches PPC Landing Page Creator, Lead Management Tool For SMBs Successful PPC lead generation campaigns demand good landing pages. Yet many small business marketers are left without the resources to […]
Google Celebrates 15th Birthday With #GoogleBirthday Piñata Logo & Game
The world’s most popular search engine turns 15 years old today. Started in 1998 by Stanford PhD students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google has grown to be the leader in search, owning more than 70 percent of the worldwide desktop search market share. To celebrate its 15th birthday, today’s Google logo is an interactive […]