Today is the 155th birthday of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, the German physicist who was able to prove the existence of electromagnetic waves. To celebrate his contributions to the world, Google has a special animated wave logo on their homepage. He built an antenna that was able to detect and measure electromagnetic waves and thus prove […]
Google is releasing some data on mobile search and Valentine’s Day. The company said, “A whopping 62 percent of total searches for popular national chain restaurants [in the US] on Valentine’s Day occurred on high end mobile devices or tablets.” One more time: 62 percent of all US-based national chain restaurant queries were coming from […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Scroogle Says Google Is Blocking Their Privacy Search Engine If you try to conduct a search at Scroogle, the portal that lets you search Google in private, Scroogle will tell you […]
Google has a pretty sophisticated logo, aka Google Doodle, today on their home page for Valentine’s Day. Also celebrating with special logos and home pages are Bing, Yahoo and even Baidu. The logo features Tony Bennett’s Cold Cold Heart and an animated YouTube video representing love and Valentine’s Day. Here is a video demo of […]
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.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: New: Block Sites From Google Results Using Chrome’s “Personal Blocklist” Google has announced that a new way to block certain sites from appearing in Google’s search results, though a special Google-made […]
Google is featuring their Valentine’s Day logo, designed by Robert Indiana. Robert Indiana designed the 8 cent love stamp back in 1973. Google decided to use that design towards the 2011 version of their Google Doodle for Valentine’s Day. The logo is not a typical standard “doodle”-like version of their logo. Typically, the letters of […]
Google has created a little site called “Map Your Valentine” in honor of today (thanks Mike Blumenthal). It uses Google Maps and enables you to send a email card to your spouse/partner/lover/friend/stalkee. At the end of the sequence it allows you to search for local florists, chocolatiers or even “find a date” (not exactly). You […]
At SMX West last month, in a session called “Supercharging Your Descriptions With Sitelinks,” Google Senior Product Manager Jerry Dischler covered various strategies related to Sitelinks—specifically for the new Google AdWords ad unit that offers additional links below the main destination URL. (There’s a similar new listing format for organic search as well, which may […]
If you visit Google today, you will see Google has a 3rd (actually, 4th) Olympics logo up today. But if you look closely, you may notice the logo has a heart designed into it. If you look even closer, you may notice that Google’s alternative text tag for the image says, “Happy Valentine’s Day” in […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: SEO Industry Cries Foul Over Google SEO ‘Services’ A vocal contingent of search engine optimizers is up in arms today, saying Google is “offering SEO consulting services.” There are posts on […]
Valentine’s Day is being celebrated around the world and today, Google had not one, but two different logos, depending on where in the world you accessed Google. Plus, search engines like Yahoo, Live, Ask and others had their special logos. Below is a compilation of logos that I collected throughout the day, the special day. […]
The Yahoo Search Blog announced that if you conduct a search at Yahoo on valentine’s day or other related search terms, you will see a horizontal search bar with hearts for the special day. This is something Google has done for the past few years, when it comes to the holiday season, just see our […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
It’s Valentine’s Day, and what better day to give a big smooch to small businesses? Having worked exclusively with small businesses for the first nine years of my online marketing career, and with several small business owners in my family, I have a lot of appreciation for the hard work it takes to succeed. The […]
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! Google and other search engines and search blogs have special logos and themes up for the day. Here are logos from Google, Yahoo, Ask, DogPile, and others in the search industry:
SEO is making it big time, hitting Oprah! Actually, it’s an SEO who will be on Oprah and not talking about his business but his personal life. Rand Fishkin is slated to share how he popped the question for his fiancee Geraldine last year. Kim Krause posted the news of Rand being on Oprah at […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, and it is the time of the year to show your love. Why not show your love to your favorite SEO via an e-card tailored towards SEOs? Internet Traffic Solutions has SEO e-cards that you can send to your favorite SEO or SEM. Messages include, “I love you more than links […]