Amazon launches Alexa+ Agentic Ads
Amazon's new Alexa+ Agentic Ads let consumers complete purchases directly within a conversation.
Topic: Ticketmaster
Google can book your flights, hotels and dinner reservations using AI
Plus, Google added new travel AI tools with Canvas and ways to find deals.
Schema markup: What it is, how to use it, & real-life examples
Schema markup helps search engines understand your content. Learn how structured data improves SEO, enhances visibility, and powers rich results.
How to address the top reputation issues impacting brands today
Learn why traditional SEO tactics fail in modern reputation management and how to address brand perception and crisis communication issues.
Google AI Overviews: More searches, less satisfaction
What happens when you let Google do the Googling for you, but Google can't find what Google is Googling for on Google?
SearchCap: Google job search, Firefox picks Google & Bing Black Friday
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 new features to its job listings search tool released earlier this yearNov 15, 2017 by Amy Gesenhues Salary, location and application details are now included directly in job listing […]
Facebook expands Marketplace categories and content in new push for growth
Businesses will now be able to have their content featured in Marketplace.
Google announces Google Lens, an AI-powered visual search tool
At today's Google I/O 2017 conference keynote, Google introduces a new visual search tool coming to Google Assistant and Google Photos.
Apple building Amazon Echo competitor, will open Siri to third-party apps — [Report]
The virtual assistant revolution is ushering in the next era of search.
Google says 20 percent of mobile queries are voice searches
Voice search growing as virtual assistant market heats up.
Gmail Search Field Trial Adds Calendar Results To Google Search
Google keeps increasing the amount of information it will show from your Gmail account within your Google searches, if you’re part of the Gmail Search Field Trial. The latest addition? Your calendar results. The idea is that if you do a search, you’ll see matching information from your calendar showing within Google’s search results, when […]
Google Expands Gmail In Search Results With My Orders, My Events & My Reservations
In August, Google introduced a field test that brings Gmail content in your search results. So if you searched for [my flights] and you had a flight confirmation email in your Gmail account, Google would show you upcoming flights. This is still an opt in field test available to a limited number of US users […]
In Wake Of Penguin, Could You Be Sued For Linking To Others?
Many webmasters have been desperately trying to fix poor SEO work done to a site thanks to the recent Penguin update targeting webspam and the bad link warnings sent from Google. The only current way to discredit a link is to have it removed as reverse nofollow functionality for webmasters simply doesn’t exist. One recent example of a link removal request was particularly […]
When & How Is The New Smartphone Bot Affecting Search Results?
Even though Google has launched a smartphone bot to improve mobile search results and the user experience on smartphones, it doesn’t mean that everything in mobile SEO has changed. Google is still detecting what handset users are searching from, and adapting the results that they send based on the handset; some phones are set up […]
By The Numbers: How Facebook Says Likes & Social Plugins Help Websites
Earlier this month, I wrote about how the promise of Facebook traffic has enticed millions of sites to use Facebook Like buttons and other Facebook social plugins. But does following Facebook’s socialist agenda really pay off? How about some numbers, courtesy of Facebook? Facebook provided me with the figures below from when I was working […]
Bing Adds FanSnap Ticket Inventory Into Search Results
Just in time for the opening round of the NFL playoffs (coughGOSEAHAWKS!cough), Bing has followed through on its plans to integrate ticket inventory from FanSnap into its search results. This FanSnap integration was first announced as part of Bing’s December search event. FanSnap isn’t a ticket seller; it’s one of several ticket aggregators that displays […]
Ticket Industry Spam Takes Over Google Maps
Finding tickets for your favorite concert or sporting event can be hard enough, but if your search starts with Google, chances are good that your first challenge will be getting around the veritable spamfest that ticket affiliates and second-tier ticket resellers have created. A reader contacted us last week to point out what’s going on. […]
Win A New Car! Live Search Offers Canadian Searchers Prizes With “Big Ticket Search”
Ars Technica reports Microsoft is now trying a new way to incentivizes searches, this time in Canada. Microsoft launched Big Ticket Search to influence Canadians to search using Live Search. Canadians can win wide range of prizes, ranging from 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer SE to gift certificates. Every time a Canadian searches at Big Ticket Search, […]
7 Search Tools You May Not Know … But Should
Google UK recently shared a list of 52 Things to Do on a variety of Google properties (found via Phil Bradley). It’s a collection of tools and tips about using Google products and services for some everyday functions. If you’re a search power user, you probably know most of them already. But Google’s message seems […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 7, 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, November 5, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
IAC To Split Up, Extends Google Ad Deal Worth $3.5+ Billion
Today is a big day for IAC, Ask.com’s parent company. First they announce they are breaking the company into five publicly traded entities, and then they announce they have extended their search ad deal with Google.
Forty-Eight Hours With Ask Mobile
On Friday I received a briefing on Ask Mobile (with GPS) and a demo phone with the application pre-installed. I now have three mobile devices that I’m carrying: a traditional cellphone, a Windows Mobile device and the Ask Mobile demo phone. It’s quite a challenge to physically manage all these devices as I walk and […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 25, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Ask.com To Launch Contextual Advertising Product
Ask.com is launching a new sponsored listings contextual product and will go live the week of May 21st. The Ask contextual product will initially launch within IAC’s own network of sites including Match.com, Ticketmaster, Evite and Citysearch and will then expand to trusted third party publishers. Individual publishers will most likely have to wait until […]