TikTok reportedly developing new app to rival Instagram
Developers claim to have spotted a new welcome message in the back-end code of TikTok, hinting at the new Instagram competitor.
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The case against Moz’s Domain Authority
Despite the metric's popularity, Domain Authority scores should never be a KPI in your SEO reports. Here's why.
Google offers to split part of its ad-tech business to avoid DOJ trouble
Legal pressures are mounting and Google offers to split part of its ad-tech business to avoid DOJ trouble.
Adaptability: The new competitive advantage in SEO
Here's why brands have to adapt to change or risk becoming extinct like the dinosaurs.
How Google search personalization works: Professors and politicians just don’t understand
Google has told us how search works. We know plenty about how it works. But a professor seems confused about search personalization.
‘Untitled’ search results sending users to spam sites, Google ‘working on it’
There are multiple reports about 'Untitled' title tags appearing in Google's search results that redirect users to spam sites.
Where are they now? Vint Cerf
Part 2 of a series of articles commemorating the history of internet search. Today, Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google.
Search In Pics: Google Scrabble, Matt Cutts Fireworks & UCLA Stats Club
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, May 21, 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: “Ads Related To…” Text Officially Rolls Out On AdWords’ Top Ad Block We’ve seen “Ads related to…” followed by the search query before, but now it’s at the top of the […]
Photo Tour: Grand Opening Of Google LA
Google’s new Los Angeles office had its grand opening yesterday, consolidating operations that were previously spread-out among three different offices in Santa Monica into the funky Frank Gehry-designed “Binoculars” building in Venice Beach. The new operation is home to 500 employees, who begin work tomorrow. The were welcomed by Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Susan Wojcicki, […]
Live Blogging Bing’s Future Of Search Event
Bing and Big Think are hosting”Farsight 2011: Beyond the Search Box,” a four hour event today in San Francisco looking at the future of search. We’ve got various luminaries lined-up. Google will be on a panel. There’s that whole Google says Bing is copying them thing that just happened. Plus, Blekko’s here — and it […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 11, 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: Time To End The Bullshit Search Engine Share Figures? Yahoo’s up again in comScore’s latest search rankings. Reason? It seems largely due to non-search “slideshow” activity. Solution? Time to end the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 6, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
November 2008: Search Engine Land’s Most Popular Stories
Below are Search Engine Land’s 10 most popular stories from November 2008:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 14, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Are Our Brains Becoming “Googlized?”
Are our brains being rewired by using the Internet? The evidence tends to be pointing that way. As somebody interested in how the mind works, I read with interest the results of a recent study at UCLA that used the sexiest research tool around today, fMRI scanning. fMRI allows researchers to see which parts of […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 15, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Study: Google & Web Search Make You Smarter
Proving what many of us in the search industry have long suspected, a report today on CNN says searching the web makes you smarter. Dr. Gary Small, a professor at UCLA, studied the brain activity of two groups of elder adults — one with “Web savvy” and one without. The study used MRI technology to […]
Understanding Search Usability
The term “search usability” is widely misunderstood throughout a variety of industries: Web design/development, search engine marketing (SEM), online advertising, information sciences, human-computer interface (HCI), and usability industries. Even the term “usability” is misunderstood by search professionals. Every time I hear an SEO professional claim that his or her firm implements web site usability best […]