Surviving the search revolution: 7 lessons from losing weight with AI
What started as a personal challenge became a glimpse into how search is changing – and how you can stay ahead of it.
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SEO in an AI-powered world: What changed in just a year
What does SEO look like when AI tools become the first stop, not the last resort? A look at what’s changed – and what hasn’t.
How geotagging photos affects Google Business Profile rank: Study
How does geotagging photos affect local SEO? A 10-week study reveals surprising effects on 'near me' vs city-based Google ranking.
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.
This day in search marketing history: March 5
Google confirms Vince Update, plus: mobile-first indexing, webspam, Google adds page load time to Quality Score algorithm and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 8
A shift from keyword research to intent research, plus: search engines taking data from SEOs, PPC spending/budget cuts, and more.
New AdSense data protection laws coming to CA, CO, CT, and UT in 2023
The new data protection laws, which apply to the collection and processing of personal information, will be coming into effect next year.
Can the industry’s biggest players win over privacy enthusiasts?; Thursday’s daily brief
Plus, Google’s June 23 spam update and Fred Vallaeys answers your top FLoC questions
Replay: CCPA compliance and Facebook Ads
A discussion on Facebook's Limited Data Use setting for California users, how it is affecting campaigns, retargeting and steps advertisers need to consider.
Google’s exact match close variants expand again: Now include same meaning variations
Exclusive: The latest machine learning-powered update to close variants means exact match will match to the intent of the query.
Google speeds up some searches by 2x with use of Service Worker and Chrome for Android
Google's pursuit of speed has led it to use Service Workers to make some repeated searches twice as fast.
Missouri Attorney General initiates Google antitrust investigation
Focus is on consumer data collection practices and alleged "search bias."
SearchCap: Google News AMP, LSA survey & Google doodle
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Report: Google AMP results in Google News more than doubleJan 30, 2017 by Barry Schwartz Want your content to be found by mobile users in Google News? Well, it seems like […]
Utah Has Highest Google Usage, West Virginia The Lowest
Ad network Chitika has released a new tool that provides a user percentage or traffic market-share breakdown of PC operating system and search usage on a state-by-state basis. Google is the only search engine for now; combined Bing and Yahoo usage can be inferred by simple math. The company says it will be adding other […]
Five Steps To Successfully Navigate Negative Online Reviews
Last month, D.C. contractor Dietz Development made news when it filed a $750,000 Internet defamation lawsuit against its former customer, Jane Perez, for negative reviews she posted on Yelp and Angie’s List regarding renovation work at her home. The company claimed the reviews, which alleged that Dietz did not complete its work and stole jewelry […]
Schmidt: Hard To Beat Facebook, If Playing Exactly The Same Game
Can Google beat Facebook in social media? Not unless Google changes the game, says Google chairman Eric Schmidt. Schmidt’s comments on Facebook, search rankings and a possible joke about a teenager civil rights act to protect them from social media discrimination came during an interview this week with PBS correspondent Gwen Ifill. Change The Social […]
Google Senate Hearings: The Post-Game Show
Earlier this morning I predicted that today’s three-hour Senate subcommittee hearing on Google and competition would be more theater than fact-finding. (You can read Danny’s live blog here and here.) And while there were lots of numbers and statistics thrown around by the witnesses (many of them inaccurate) there were few new facts; it was […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 11, 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: Yahoo Shutting Down Site Explorer This Year Yahoo has announced they are shutting down one of the old and beloved SEO tools, Yahoo Site Explorer, later this year. This isn’t unexpected, […]
Google’s Schmidt Agrees To Testify Before Senate Committee About Search Competition
It turns out that Google will testify in September before the Senate Judiciary Committee Antitrust subpanel, according to The Hill. Before the formal initiation of the FTC’s antitrust investigation Google had declined to send Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt or new CEO Larry Page to testify following an informal request by the Senate subcommittee. Utah Senator […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 20, 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: Hot At Sphinn: Automated Tweeting Pros/Cons, Deleting PPC Keywords & More Another busy week of discussion last week on our sister site, Sphinn, with more than a third of the published […]
Court Says No, You Can’t Sue Google For Bad Walking Directions
Remember the woman in Utah who used Google Maps’ walking directions, was hit by a car and sued? The case is Rosenberg v. Harwood and Google was successful in getting almost all the claims against the company dismissed last week. When last we left our story the plaintiff, Lauren Rosenberg, was walking from 96 Daly […]
Google Set For US Senate Committee Anti-Trust Investigation
Google’s perhaps inevitable encounter with a formal anti-trust inquiry in the US took a step closer yesterday. Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl, a vocal Google critic and the head of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, indicated that Google would be the subject of scrutiny by his committee in the 112th Congress. […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 19, 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: Google Knol Still Alive & Fixed, But Questions Linger About Its Future Google has fixed a bug that temporarily made Knol look like a ghost town this week. And, without exactly […]
Search & The 2011 Sundance Film Festival
The annual Sundance Film Festival is about to converge here in Utah January 20-30, 2011, with Bing.com and YouTube as Leadership Sponsors. Bing is the official search engine of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival website, and YouTube has two special channels for the event, the main Sundance Film Fest channel, and the YouTube Screening Room, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 18, 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: Google Display Network Is New Name For Google’s Display Initiatives The Google AdWords Blog announced that to make things simpler they have created a new “umbrella name” for Google display ads […]
Attorney In Google Maps Lawsuit: It Was Dark; She Thought Google Was Leading Her To Sidewalk
I’ve spoken to the lead attorney in the case involving the woman who blames Google, in part, for directing her onto a highway where she was struck by a vehicle. Expressing amazement at the “firestorm” of attention the case has garnered, he explained some of the reasoning putting some of the blame on Google. Our […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 1, 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: Woman Follows Google Maps “Walking” Directions, Gets Hit, Sues Is Google responsible for giving out bad directions through its Google Maps service? We’re about to find out. After Googling walking directions […]
Woman Follows Google Maps “Walking” Directions, Gets Hit, Sues
Is Google responsible for giving out bad directions through its Google Maps service? We’re about to find out. After Googling walking directions for a trip in Park City, Utah, Lauren Rosenberg claims she was led onto a busy highway, where she was struck by a vehicle. She’s now suing Google for damages. The case, Rosenberg […]
U.S. Newspapers Start Selling SEO
Your local newspaper may soon offer SEO services. Heck, maybe it already is. Two of the three biggest newspaper publishers in the U.S. have recently announced that they’re selling marketing services to small/local businesses … and those services include things like SEO, local search marketing, and more. Gannett Newspapers is the latest to hop on […]
Google Sues To Stop Online Scams Using Its Name
Google is fighting back against the get-rich-quick and work-from-home scams that use its name. The company says it’s suing to stop what it calls “a widespread Internet advertising scam” that often goes under names like “Google Cash,” “Google Money Kit,” “Google Profits,” and more. Google has made available the text of its lawsuit (PDF) against […]
All Aboard The Twitter Train, SMBs!
Twitter has reached critical mass. Oprah’s recent announcement that she’d joined Twitter, and her near-instantaneous recruitment of over 1,000,000 followers, has signaled a tipping point—tweeting is no longer a pastime exclusively for the technorati and uber-geeks. In fact, it seems like elitist spinsters are the only demographic not to embrace it yet at some level […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 5, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Why Do Lawyers From Utah Hate Search Ads?
Eric Goldman reports that Utah, for the third time, is trying to regulate keyword advertising by proposing new law. The first two times they failed, but they are hoping the third time will be a charm. This revised law proposal, HB 450, is trying to prevent registered marks as triggers for keyword advertising but specifically […]
And The Oscar For Best Search Engine For Oscar Winners Goes To … Microsoft Live & Ask.com
I’ve written about how hard it is for people to break the Google Habit (and see here) and consider other search engines. But breaking the habit can be done, and Microsoft’s Live Search shows an easy win for this type of thing in response to a search for oscar winners. Check it out — the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 2, 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, August 14, 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, August 4, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Local Internet Marketing Firm Spams Google Maps Bigtime
In another case of major mapspam (discovered first by Imnotadoctor), an SMB-local internet market firm, Big Local, has captured many of the top positions in the Google Maps “onebox” for the category “internet consulting.” Below are some examples from various cities.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 7, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Utah Neuters Search Ad Trademark Keyword Law
The Google Public Policy Blog informed us that Utah has changed the law that restricted search engines from triggering ads based on trademarked terms. This reversal now puts Utah in sync with the precedent set forth by the federal trademark law. In short, you can now legally bid on trademarked terms in Utah, assuming you […]