Meta launches AI Mode in Facebook search to answer questions
Public posts, Groups and Reels now power responses, turning conversations into a new discovery engine for advice and recommendations.
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Meta adds dynamic overlays to Advantage+ Catalog ads
Catalog ads now support dynamic overlays – sticker-style labels that highlight prices, discounts, and free shipping.
How Facebook ranks content in 2023: Feed, Stories, Reels and more
Here's everything we know about how Facebook ranking algorithms work to help you maximize your visibility and engagement.
Yandex CEO and founder resigns following sanctions
Arkady Volozh's departure is the latest in a tumultuous period for Russia's search engine since Russia invaded Ukraine.
Twitter Circle: Limit who can view your tweets
Find Twitter too toxic? Now you can limit who sees your tweets to 150 users of your choosing.
6 of the best social listening tools for 2020
As more brands turn to social media for customer insights, social listening tools are gaining momentum. Here are our top 6 picks for 2020.
Social listening: what it is, why it matters, and how to do it
What is social media monitoring? Why is it important? What are the best social listening tools? Find out with this quick guide for 2020.
7 best social media monitoring tools for any business
Social media is an enormous pool of insights on your market and competitors. These social listening tools bring those insights right to the surface.
What is Twitter?
Twitter is a social media platform that is based on conversation topics rather than connections. Anyone can post their opinion on any topic by simply using a hashtag (#) to categorise their message (eg #Cats). Unlike other social networks, connections on Twitter are essentially one way. Each user on Twitter has a feed, which contains […]
8 best online reputation management tools for your brand
As more buyers rely on online research, your brand’s reputation can make or break your business. These 9 handy ORM tools will help.
SearchCap: Google Firefox Push, Bing Ads Preview Tool & YP Cross Retargeting
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 Suggesting Firefox Users Change Their Search Engine & Home Page Yahoo won the deal to be the default search engine in Firefox in November; now after losing some search share, […]
Facebook Gives Yandex Access To Its Firehose In Return For Improved Presentation Of Its Own Content
Yandex has announced that it has signed a deal with Facebook which will give the leading search engine in Russia access to the Facebook firehose for “public” content published in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, other CIS countries and Turkey, where Yandex also operates. Content will be available for indexing by Yandex as soon as it has […]
Yandex Starts To Drink From The Twitter “Firehose”
Yandex is the next in line to gain access to the Twitter “firehose.” The Russian search engine is announcing that it will begin integrating the Twitter feed into its search results. Twitter reported the deal to us late last week but declined to disclose its terms. As part of their agreement Yandex will have access […]
Forty Million Mobile Users Access Social Nets Daily — comScore
In the US roughly 40 million mobile users access social networks (broadly defined to include blogs) on their handsets on a daily basis, according to comScore. The large number of mobile-social users comes as no surprise. Facebook previously announced it had 350 million active mobile users globally. Google also sees mobile as a strategic front […]
Global Social Network Stats Confirm Facebook As Largest In U.S. & Europe (With 3 Times The Usage Of 2nd Place)
A recent study by InSites Consulting revealed the flourishing global social media scene, how different countries and continents use social networks and the stranglehold that Facebook has in the market. InSites surveyed more than 9,000 respondents about social media usage, tendencies and thoughts. American Social Network Usage The study revealed that 76% of Americans use social network sites, a higher adoption […]
Google+ At One Month: A Look At Highlights & Controversies
It’s hard to believe that it was just one month ago today that Google+ launched. So much has happened to the fledgling service in this short time. Here is a look at both the highlights and lowlights of Google’s newest social network! Launch & Usage Google+ came out of the gate swinging, amassing 10 million […]
Google’s Facebook Competitor, The Google+ Social Network, Finally Arrives
Google’s long expected second shot at taking on Facebook in the social networking space has arrived in the form of the Google+ Project. It has some interesting twists on the social networking model but is far from a Facebook-killer. That Name The terrible name is a bad start. Google+? Google+! I can’t even question or […]
The State Of Online Marketing In Russia
For online marketers, Russia offers two appealing qualities: It’s one of just five countries in the world where Google isn’t the market leader, and Russia is now the 2nd biggest online market in Europe in terms of users, having passed the UK last year. Yandex is the market leader in Russia, with a 64% market […]
Apple vs. Google Part Deux: Social Networks And The “Battle For The Living Room”
Most of Apple’s announcements yesterday were anticipated. Still there were a few surprises; for example the specifics of the iTunes-based social network Ping, as well as the pricing of Apple TV 2.0 ($99). Apple pre-empted Google to some degree with both products. Business Insider does a nice job of contrasting the two TV initiatives and […]
Foursquare Hints At Evolution After Getting $20 Million
After a protracted set of M&A discussions with Yahoo and Facebook (and perhaps others), Foursquare announced that it had secured $20 million in funding from several VCs: Union Square Ventures, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. CEO Dennis Crowley discussed the funding and how it would be used in his blog post: With this new […]
Yahoo Acquires The Foursquare-Like Koprol
Yahoo announced that it has acquired an Indonesian site called Koprol. Think of it as a kind of cross between Twitter and Foursquare, with more emphasis on the latter. (Yahoo had been rumored to be in talks to buy Foursquare. This move may reflect its inability to close that deal.) It touches local, mobile and […]
Google Buzz: The Good, Bad, & Ugly Reactions
Google’s stated goal for Buzz is to help users cut through the noise of social networking. Ironically, yesterday’s announcement created as much noise (maybe more?) as an Apple announcement. Yep, everybody’s got an opinion about Google Buzz and if you’re one of the many who found it impossible to follow the reactions, we’ve done some […]
Is International Social Media Marketing Just Too Difficult?
Social media marketing is pretty tricky - but it is too tricky to ever roll out international campaigns? Where do you start from when you're targeting international social networks - success at home or do you need to start all-over?
Google Latitude Attracts A Million Users In A Week
Speaking at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona Spain, Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra apparently said that Google’s mobile friend finder service Latitude had seen “more than a million” mobile subscribers sign up for the service in the first week since launch on February 4. Given that Google released Latitude in 27 international […]
Google Latitude Turns Maps (For Mobile) Into Social Tool
Google Latitude is now live, a new service from Google that allows you to send your location to Google Maps and share it with friends via many mobile phones (not the iPhone yet, but that’s coming). Some might call the just-launched Google Latitude (part of a new version of Google Maps for Mobile) “son of […]
New Windows Live Mobile Search Ads Beta, Homepage That Emphasizes Social Networking
Microsoft this week has done a number of things in the mobile space, in addition to its introduction of the Live Search Cashback program on the desktop (which presumably will extend to mobile search/shopping). Windows Live launched a new homepage for mobile and the company introduced graphical ads and paid search for mobile.
Google Wants To Be Market Leader In China Within Five Years
Google Seeks a Leading Role in China from the Wall Street Journal reports that Google China’s president, Kai-Fu Lee, wants Google to be a market leader in China in five years. Kai-Fu Lee said, “Certainly, we would like to aspire to be a market leader in five years.” His plans to achieving that goal is […]
Socializing Before & During SMX West 2008
We expect more than 1,500 people to attend Search Engine Land’s three-day Search Marketing Expo West conference later this month in Silicon Valley. A monster show! There will be sessions stuffed with search marketing knowledge and a bustling expo floor. But it needn’t scare those looking to network. We’ve carefully coordinated a number of events […]
Social Networking Through Search: Hakia Helps You Meet Others
Hakia, a natural language search engine, has just added a new spin to search: social networking. Their new Meet Others feature lets you connect with others who are searching for the same things you are. Since Hakia processes queries differently than old school search engines such as Google, you aren’t just matched up with people […]
Google Buys Mobile-Social Site Zingku
Google Operating System reports (and confirms) that Google has acquired a mobile service called Zingku, which had been in private beta. Around since 2005, the service uses text messaging and picture messaging to provide a platform for (what appears to be) entertainment and events-related communication but also has commercial potential. Zingku also integrates the desktop […]
Google To Give Google China More Freedom
Google Aims to Make Gains in China By Giving Units Greater Autonomy from the Wall Street Journal reports Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, saying that Google plans to give Google China more autonomy. Mr. Schmidt said, “Google China is run very autonomously. We want to increase that … China is growing very quickly … so it’s […]
Dodgeball Founders Crowley & Rainert Quit Google In Frustration
Dennis Crowley, cofounder of Dodgeball, which was acquired by Google in May 2005, has announced his resignation and that of Dodgeball’s other cofounder Alex Rainert:
Special Valentine’s Day Cards For SEOs
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 […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Dec. 13, 2006
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web: