How China’s fragmented search ecosystem is reshaping SEO in 2026
Baidu still drives B2B demand, while AI and ecommerce platforms reshape discovery. Here’s how to stay visible across both.
Topic: Sogou
Top 10 insights for SEO and PPC success in China
Running SEO and PPC campaigns in China is no easy task. But with these insights, you can substantially enhance your chances of success.
This day in search marketing history: March 7
Landing page load time added to Google Quality Score, plus: Broad Core Algorithm Updates, bogus Domain Authority pitches, and more.
SearchCap: Local ranking factors, keyword bidding & more
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Local ranking factors study finds reviews, organic SEO best practices boost local visibilityNov 10, 2017 by Greg Sterling This is the second year of the LocalSEOGuide ranking factors study, performed in […]
SearchCap: AMP expands, Flickr similar search & Google AdWords conversions
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Flickr’s new ‘similarity search’ feature makes it easier to find visually similar photosMar 7, 2017 by Amy Gesenhues Flickr says its new search option uses advanced technology to surface similar photos […]
AMP — Accelerated Mobile Pages — rolling out to 1 billion more people in Asia
Baidu, Sogou and Yahoo Japan are adopting the mobile framework.
Baidu Posts 50 Pct. Revenue Growth But Shy Of Investor Hopes
Chinese search engine and advertising provider Baidu announced quarterly earnings today. The company fell just shy of financial analysts’ estimates, which were $1.54 billion (51 percent growth). Instead, the company announced $1.573 billion in revenue, which was a 50.3 percent increase from a year ago. For fiscal 2013, Baidu reported total revenues of $5.277 billion, a […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 16, 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: 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 […]
Shake Up In Chinese Search Market As Engines Merge
In a move somewhat reminiscent of the back end merger of Yahoo and Microsoft’s search engines, the number three and four search sites in China are set to combine assets and cross-promote in a nearly $450 million deal writes ZDNet. The deal involves Chinese online portal Tencent’s Soso search engine and Sohu’s Sogou. The latter […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 23, 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: Google Pulls Related Searches Filter Due To Lack Of Usage Google has quietly removed the “related searches” option from the search tools menu within the Google search results page. When Google […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 8, 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: Priceline To Buy Travel Search Engine Kayak For $1.8 Billion Priceline is a public company that owns several other travel brands, including Booking.com, Agoda.com, Cheaptickets.com, Rentalcars.com and a few other travel […]
Google Is #4 In China As It Continues To Lose Market Share
Google continues to lose marketshare in China after pulling out of China years ago. New market share reports from Marbridge Consulting puts Google in forth place in terms of search market share. Google trails Baidu, Qihoo 360, and Sogou with only 4.72% share in China. Baidu has 72.97%, Qihoo 360 has 9.64% and Sogou has […]
2012 New Year’s Day Logos From The Search Industry
Welcome to 2012 and Happy New Years Day everyone! We wanted to share with you the logos and themes from the search engines for New Years! Google had two different logos, one for New Years Eve and the other for New Years Day. Bing had an outstanding video home page background: Yahoo had this nice […]
Google’s Father’s Day Logo & More 2011 Logos
Today is Father’s Day in the U.S. and many other countries. To celebrate the day, Google has a special tie logo. Bing, Yahoo and other search engines have special logos and themes as well. Here they are: Google: Yahoo (animated): Yahoo (not-animated): Bing: Ask.com: DogPile: Baidu: Sogou: Search Engine Roundtable: Related Stories: Google’s 2011 Mother’s […]
New Year’s Eve & Day 2011 Logos From Google & Others
Happy New Year’s Eve everyone, except for you in the Australian region, where it is New Year’s Day! On behalf of the Search Engine Land team, we wanted to wish you all a happy and healthy 2011! As like in the past years, the search engines have special logos up for the New Years. Below […]
Scooby-Doo Google Logo For Halloween
Google has a very special Halloween logo for this year’s holiday. The logo is five different designs based around the classic Scooby-Doo cartoon. You can flip between the five different logos by clicking on the right arrow, clicking on the logo or clicking on the palm imprint under the logo. Here is a short video […]
Google’s First Day Of Summer & Winter 2010 Logos
Today is the first day of Summer in the northern hemisphere and first day of Winter in the southern hemisphere. Google has four Google doodles for those accessing Google.com in both the northern or southern hemispheres.
Happy Father’s Day 2010 Logos From Google & Others
Today is Father’s Day in many countries and we wanted to wish you a Happy Father’s Day. Here is a collection of the various logos from the search industry celebrating the day. Google: Yahoo Animated: Yahoo Static: Baidu: Sogou: DogPile: Bing: Ask.com: Cre8asite Forums: Search Engine Roundtable:
Google’s Mother’s Day & Peter Pan Logos
Today is Mother’s Day in the U.S. and in many other countries, but it is also Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie’s 150th birthday. To celebrate the day, Google has a Mother’s Day logo in the countries celebrating Mother’s Day today and Peter Pan logo (along with Wendy, John, Michael and yes, Tinkerbell) in other countries, […]
Google China: Congressional Praise; Microsoft Supports Tyranny & Google Eats Poo Cartoon
The reactions to Google’s partial withdrawal from China continue. Yesterday, there were hearings in the US Congress where representatives showered praise on Google while competitor Microsoft was said to be supporting tyranny. Meanwhile, there is a nice round-ups of reactions from China folks on the web, including a great cartoon of something you never see […]
Happy New Years 2010 Search Logos & Google’s Surprise
Happy New Years! The Search Engine Land team would like to wish everyone a happy, healthy and successful 2010. Just for fun, I wanted to share the various logos from the search engines and also Google’s surprise. Let’s start with Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” count down to New Years. Remember when you hit the “I’m […]
Getting To Know International PPC Markets
We’re all pretty familiar with the well reported search landscape of the US/UK. But, in other parts of the world, the search engine landscape is very different. In this article, I’ll focus on China, Japan and Russia. The goal of this article is to present PPC opportunities in counties that are not Google-centric and provide […]
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, April 6, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google China Releases Labs Product Very Similar To Sohu.com’s Sogou
Google evades question about software similarities from InfoWorld reports that Google is under scrutiny on their release of a Pinyin Input Method Editor (IME). The IME is a Google China labs product that enables “users to enter Chinese characters by typing their Pinyin equivalents on a standard QWERTY keyboard.” The problem is many users have […]