Bing Visual Search lets you search specific objects within images
Bing joins Google, Pinterest and others in upgrading its image search capabilities.
Topic: U2
Mobilegeddon & Me: My 20-Year-Old Website Is About To Get Zapped By Google’s Mobile-Friendly Update
Will Google demote highly-trusted content that's not mobile friendly, replacing it with less-trusted content that looks good on a smartphone?
Search “Super Bowl” & See The Best Search Results Page Bing Has Ever Had
Bing's search results include original content and almost anything a fan would need to know before the game starts.
Google’s Knowledge Graph Finally Shows Social Networks Not Named Google+
Years after a controversy over a decision to promote its own social network, Google+, in search results, Google has begun linking to other social networks in its Knowledge Graph. As first spotted by Bernd Rubel and reported by Search Engine Roundtable, Google is now showing icons for social sites including Facebook, Twitter and even MySpace […]
Bing Starts Showing Full Song Lyrics Right In Search Results
While SEOs debate Google’s recent addition of structured data in its search results, Bing is making a similar — and perhaps more significant — change to its search results: Full song lyrics are now showing on Bing’s search results page in the US, and Bing says it plans to expand this outside the US in […]
SearchCap: Ripoff Report Returns In Yahoo, Google Shopping Campaigns, Bing Webmaster Roadshow
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 Webmaster Roadshow 2014 Takes Search Experts On 4-City Tour This Summer Bing announced today it will be hosting the Bing Webmaster Roadshow 2014 starting next month, with stops in four […]
SearchCap: Yahoo News Digest, Bing XBox Music Search & Google Parents Search Double
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 Says New Parents Perform Twice As Many Searches As Non-Parents According to a recent survey conducted by Google’s Think Insights, new and expecting parents perform 2.7 times the number of […]
Bing Now Searches Music That You Can Listen & Play On Xbox Music
PC World reports that Microsoft Bing has added a way to search for music available within Xbox Music. Now, if you search for a song, for example [U2 all that you can’t leave behind] on Bing, on the right hand panel, you will see a box for “Listen to music.” There, you will be able […]
Bing’s New Music Video Search Results Page Showcases Popular Videos With Related Artists & Albums Lists
Bing has rolled out a new music video search results page today. From now on, when searching for a music video by song title, artist or album, users will see the following box at the top of their search results, showcasing the “most popular” music video related to the search, along with details and a […]
Google Glass Diary, Part 3: How Search Works On Google Glass
There are seven voice commands built into this first “Explorers” edition of Google Glass. Two of those six are search-related: “google…” and “get directions to….” The others are “take a photo,” “record a video,” “send a message to,” “make a call to” and “start a Hangout with.” There’s also the predictive search aspect of Google […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 28, 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: With $14 Million More Q&A Site ChaCha Soldiers On Q&A is a great idea that really hasn’t worked. Although Yahoo Answers and a few others are still around — and Ask […]
Bing News Expands To Your Facebook Feed With Customizable App
Bing News wants to be your go-to place for finding out what’s going on in the world today, whether it be the sports world, financial world, or your local world. But social media — and Facebook, especially — is where a lot of us find and share important links and headlines. So how does Bing […]
Is Google’s Synonym Matching Increasing? How Searchers & Brands Can Be Both Helped & Hurt By Evolving Understanding Of Intent
In the beginning, Google matched the words in a searcher’s query to the words on a web page and ranks those pages (roughly) based on how many external links each had. Over the years, Google’s algorithms have evolved in numerous ways, including with how Google figures out what the searcher is really looking for. Now, […]
Google Testing “Sources” Area With Info About Movies, Books, People, Music & More
Last November, Google tested a new “Sources” section in its search results, in the third column where ads normally appear. It seems the testing is underway again, showing extended information about actors, films, musicians, people and more. It also seems likely everyone may see this extended information soon, and that it’s the “search refresh” the […]
Here’s What Twitter Should Do To Make Photo Galleries More Useful
I like the new user photo galleries that Twitter started rolling out yesterday. They’ll make photo search and discovery much easier, especially for those of us who’ve scattered our photo uploads across TwitPic, yFrog, Mobypicture and other photo services. But I’m also hoping that the product Twitter launched yesterday is a shell of what it’ll […]
With Its New Explore Box, StumbleUpon Adds Search To Content Discovery
After about a month of testing with a select group of users, StumbleUpon today has rolled out its Explore Box — a new tool that adds a search layer to the site’s popular, but sometimes quite random, content discovery. It can be accessed at www.stumbleupon.com/explore or, if you’re logged in, at the StumbleUpon home page. […]
Google Expands Use & Display Of Related Searches
Google has announced an interesting expansion of its related search capabilities. The updates to Google’s search results will show up in a number of different ways: Search References/Lists When the search query suggests results that may involve a list, Google will show what it calls the “top references” for the query. This may show up […]
New Google Tool Lets You Preview Instant Previews In Webmaster Tools
There’s a new toy available now in Google’s Webmaster Tools: It’s an Instant Previews preview tool that lets you see what any page on your website will look like in Google’s Instant Previews. The tool actually pulls double-duty, also showing a preview of what the page will look like in the Chrome web browser, too. […]
Slashtag.it: This Is What Google, Bing & Yahoo Should’ve Done To Speed Up Search
There are lots of different ways to speed up searching. Google, Bing and Yahoo all offer browser toolbars — no need to visit their home pages, just search wherever you are. Google and Yahoo both have their own versions of “instant search,” where search results appear as you type. Google’s Chrome web browser lets you […]
Blekko Adds Facebook Comments To Search Results (But Why?)
If you’ve been hoping that someone’s search engine would turn into a social network, today is your lucky day. Sure, Google and Bing have been making search results more social, and Bing shows Facebook “likes” in its search results, and Google has its +1 button experiment … but that’s nothing compared to what Blekko is […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 14, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Twitter Says Activity Levels Are Soaring With the five-year anniversary of the first tweet approaching, Twitter says user activity is soaring. In a blog post that details tweet and account activity, […]
Sergey Brin & Bono Up For Gorbachev Awards
What does lead U2 singer Bono and Google co-founder Sergey Brin have in common? They are both in the running for a new award named the Gorbachev Awards. The Telegraph reports the former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, is holding an international award designed for honoring “people capable of changing the world.” The award will be […]
Blekko Partners With Stack Overflow To Improve Search Results
Blekko and Stack Overflow have announced a partnership that aims to use the latter’s community of programmers to improve programming- and tech-related searches on Blekko. The agreement calls for Stack Overflow’s community of programmers to “help improve and maintain programming-related slashtags,” while Stack’s CTO, Jeff Atwood, will be the editor of those slashtags. Stack Overflow’s […]
Google Links To Competitors Next To YouTube Videos
Google has begun showing links to different video sites and search engines in its search results. The links appear next to YouTube videos — but only on music-related searches. On a search for u2, for example, Google shows three videos from YouTube, but each video listing now includes additional links that might otherwise have only […]
Xmarks Shuts Down After Failing To Sell Its Search Engine
Xmarks, the popular browser bookmark synchronization service, is going to shut down on January 10, 2011. Xmarks is a free service that saves your bookmarks across different browsers and different computers, and currently boasts about two million users. I’m a longtime user and fan of the service, going back to when it was called Foxmarks; […]
Google Instant Search: The Complete User’s Guide
Google Instant promises to change the way people search. Speaking at today’s announcement, Google’s Marissa Mayer called it a “fundamental shift in search.” As with any big Google announcement, there are questions: Who can use Google Instant? Can I opt out or turn off Google Instant? Why am I not seeing it when I do […]
Swingly: New Search Engine Reveals Just The Facts
The days of search engines merely being a middle man are over. Search isn’t about sending users to the right web page, it’s about getting them the information they want as soon as possible — sometimes it’s a web page, but it might also be a sports score, movie showtimes, election information, or some other […]
Twitter’s “Suggestions For You” Helps You Find New People To Follow
Twitter is launching a new tool called “Suggestions for You” in the hopes of making it easier for users to find the right accounts to follow. The tool is rolling out today; I don’t have it on my main @mattmcgee account, but it does appear on the home page of my @atu2 account. (atu2.com is […]
Up Close With Facebook Questions
Facebook Questions is the latest in a long line of question-and-answer services online but, as Danny Sullivan mentioned in his news article earlier, it’s the only one with a community of 500 million users behind it. For comparison’s sake, Yahoo Answers, the recognized leader in the Q&A space, announced in late 2009 that it had […]
Topsy Launches Twitter Expert Search; Better Options Exist
Topsy, the Twitter-focused real-time search engine, has launched a new tool aimed at helping users find the right people to follow called Topsy Expert Search. The blog post seems to suggest that this is a “labs” product, but there’s a prominent link to Expert Search right from Topsy’s home page. Either way, Expert Search seems […]
Twitter Adds Usernames To Search Results
As TechCrunch discovered today, Twitter is now showing a sample of matching usernames/accounts for name-based queries on Twitter.com. A search for matt mcgee (without the @ symbol) now shows my account and the names of two others above the tweets that match the search query. There’s also a small link to view a more complete […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 6, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Effectively Managing Multilingual Content Segmentation No, this is not another top-level domain vs. sub domain article but one that goes more to a deeper problem global companies are having with a […]
Bing Has A New Look, Now Hosts Deep Content In Search Results
While Bing is throwing a star-studded party to announce changes to its entertainment-based search results, there are several other changes that deserve a close look, not the least of which is the amount of deep content — including full articles with thousands of words — that Bing is now hosting in its search results. More […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 20, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: What We Know So Far About Google TV It’s very had to overstate the potential impact of Google TV (GTV) announced today. While there have been numerous efforts to put the […]
Bing Maps Adds Three New Apps For Travelers
If you’re traveling by car this summer, Bing has added three new tools to Bing Maps that should make your trip a little easier. Above is a screenshot of one of the three — a Distance Calculator tool. Let’s say, for example, that I’m thinking about driving to see U2’s concert in Oakland next month […]
Google Showing Clickthrough Data In Webmaster Tools
We don’t know yet know if it’s a test or a permanent addition, but at least some webmasters are seeing clickthrough statistics in their Google Webmaster Tools accounts. We assume this is strictly organic clickthrough data. This appears to have been noticed first by Dutch search marketer, Karel Geenen. And I’m seeing it in my […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 16, 2009
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 & Bing’s Unequal Facebook Status Update Deals Last week, Google seemingly caught up with Bing in the war over status updates from social sites, announcing a deal to get real […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 5, 2009
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 Google & Yahoo Make Money Off A Twitter Typo Domain Like many people, I misspelled a domain name today when I was trying to visit a web site. I typed […]
Yahoo Helps Music Lovers Find Videos More Easily
Yahoo has added a set of refinements to its video search engine that will help music lovers find videos more quickly. A video search for [U2] shows the new refinements in action: On the left side of the screen are new options to drill down to see U2 videos related to specific albums or specific […]
Google Music Search 2.0 Launches With Musical “OneBox”
Saying that it wants to bring music fans “closer to your favorite artists,” Google has added a new Music Search OneBox to its search results. The new OneBox includes content from partner sites such as MySpace, Pandora, Lala and others, and lets searchers listen to song clips right from Google’s search results page. Searchers should […]