Topic: United Airlines

SearchCap: Google vote, AMP errors, Bing Ads & 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: Google adds new state-by-state voting guide for “how to vote” searchesAug 16, 2016 by Amy Gesenhues Google’s latest search feature for voters includes a “2016 Election: How to Vote” box with […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 10, 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 Updates Its Page Layout Algorithm To Go After Sites “Top Heavy” With Ads Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, announced that Google has released a refresh of its Page […]

Google Celebrates The Iconic Work Of Graphic Designer Saul Bass

Google is celebrating the work of graphic designer Saul Bass today, giving him his very own Doodle video complete with a musical composition by composer Dave Brubeck. Born in New York City on May 8, 1920, Saul Bass made a career creating iconic film posters, title sequences and corporate logos. Many know Bass’s work from […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 6, 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: Getting Dev Team Mindshare For Your SEO Projects Getting in the development schedule in an enterprise environment can be one of the most challenging parts of the job for an SEO […]

Nuance’s Nina Is Siri For Enterprise Customer Service

Although there were so-called “virtual assistants” before Siri, consumers had only limited experience with them and may not have even realized what they were dealing with at the time. United Airlines’ “virtual agent” Alex is one such automated assistant, though it doesn’t use speech and currently doesn’t work on mobile devices. At least a dozen […]

The Alphabet of Google+ Direct Connect

A new feature of Google+ is Google+ Direct Connect, where typing the name of a company preceded by a + symbol will make that company’s Google+ Page appear as a suggestion in the search box, in the right circumstances. Who are the lucky few, so far? Here’s an alphabetical rundown, which reveals a number of […]

Google And Virgin Air Offer Clever Chromebook Promo

Google and Virgin America have teamed up in a clever Chromebook promotion that will benefit both brands. The airline sent out an email this morning that offers a free Chromebook test drive, “From July 1 to September 30 . . . on select flights from San Francisco, Dallas-Fort Worth, Boston, and Chicago, exclusively on Virgin […]

Google Maps Privacy: The Street View & Wifi Scorecard

It seems not a week goes by without news of a new investigation into Google’s Street View service, or into Google’s collection of personal data via unencrypted WiFi networks that occurred over three years as Street View vehicles drove the world’s streets. It seems like one country opens an investigation just as another country ends […]

Twitter Hits 1 Billion Queries Per Day, Announces New Search Tech

If Twitter were like an old-style McDonald’s, the sign outside would have changed to “1 Billion Queries Served” today. And to keep serving up those queries to humans and machines alike, Twitter is now using a new underlying search technology. The news was announced in a post on Twitter’s Engineering blog today. Let’s take the […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 4, 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: SearchWeek: May 3, 2010 Search Week is an exclusive weekly newsletter for Search Engine Land premium members that recaps stories covered on Search Engine Land over the past week. Below are […]

Misplaced Concern: The FTC, Google, Apple & United Airlines

Google was hoping that the announcement of Apple’s iAd program would help with approval of the AdMob acquisition at the FTC. However that doesn’t seem to be the case; Bloomberg reported on Friday that the FTC seemed poised to try and block the deal: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission staff is urging the filing of […]

12 Social Media New Year’s Resolutions For 2010

Since 2010 is right around the corner, I wanted to get a bit proactive on our New Year’s resolutions, and do it social media style. There are so many issues in the social realm that this list could be endless, but I chose the 12 most important items to work on in social media in […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 4, 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: Yahoo Enhances Flickr Search Just when you think Yahoo is out of the search game, they strut their stuff with an improved Flickr search. Flickr, the popular image service, has revamped […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 3, 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 To Maximize The Impact Of Your Top Performing Keywords Behavior is unique for these high volume/value keywords and as a result, steps need to be taken to make these terms […]

Microsoft’s Bing Vs Google: Head To Head Search Results

Let’s just get it out of the way: no, Bing is not a “Google Killer.” It’s also safe to say that Microsoft doesn’t see it that way either. My understanding of what Microsoft believes it has in Bing is a much more competitive product than Live Search. I entirely agree. Over the course of the […]

Google News & Indexing Old Stories As New

Michael Gray noticed that Google News is continuously indexing old stories on some sites as new stories. Yes, this is the exact issue that influenced United Airlines stock price drop just a week ago. Google blamed the Tribune for the article not containing a date, which is a fair accusation. But As Michael shows, Google […]

Yahoo: How Open When You Compete With Others?

Yahoo had a press day yesterday designed in part to pump up the media about the company’s prospects and progress post the Microsoft-fiasco. As someone who’s been positive about Yahoo, I oddly found the day leaving me less reassured, not more. In the end, ironically it might have been the Open! Open! Open! mantra that […]