Shopify revenue and merchant statistics
Interesting Shopify stores stats. Includes data on merchants, sales, revenue and more.
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Social network usage & growth statistics (2026)
Explore the ultimate roundup of social media user statistics. Discover social network statistics on growth, country, platform & time spent daily.
Survey: Search marketers less happy with their jobs vs. last year
Job dissatisfaction is up, and fewer search marketers are satisfied with their jobs, Search Engine Land's Career and Salary survey finds.
Survey: Search marketing gender pay gap is widening
Men earn an average of $130,000 while women earn an average of $95,000, according to Search Engine Land's 2024 Salary and Career Survey.
2024 Salary and Career survey: How much search marketers make
Learn the average search marketing salary ranges, plus what most impacts compensation in Search Engine Land's 2024 Salary and Career survey.
Search marketing: Evolving roles, responsibilities, challenges
Despite increased churn within organizations, job satisfaction is high, a new Search Engine Land survey finds.
Gender pay gap persists: Men earn 26% more than women in search marketing
Disparity more pronounced in senior roles. Also, women are more likely to change jobs, get promotions, new Search Engine Land survey finds.
2023 Salary & Career guide: How much search marketers make
Learn the average search marketing salary ranges, plus what most impacts compensation (and what doesn't) in this Search Engine Land survey.
Google takes baby steps to monetize Google Assistant, Google Home
There's a multi-faceted revenue model starting to emerge.
‘Tis the season! Google spreads cheer with its Holiday 2016 Day 1 doodle
Google has created two versions of the doodle - one for the Northern Hemisphere and one for the Southern Hemisphere.
Bing Launches On Firefox OS, Does It Matter?
Bing has launched an app for the Firefox Marketplace. As pointed out by The Next Web, Google doesn’t yet have an official app there. Firefox OS is a mobile operating system “built entirely using open web standards” (HTML5). It’s both an effort to reinvigorate the mobile web and keep Firefox from falling into total mobile irrelevance. […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 29, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: 5 Simple Ways To Debug Your Google Analytics Installation As you might guess, we QA a lot of Google Analytics installs. It is often a maddening task that makes you want […]
Apple Hiring ‘Ground Truth’ Managers To Improve Maps
If job listings are any indication, Apple remains committed to improving its iOS Maps app. As the iDownload Blog spotted, Apple currently has seven job listings for what’s called a “Maps Ground Truth Manager.” The positions are based around the world — U.S., Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Japan, Asia-Pacific, the Americas and Middle East/Africa. The […]
Bing Ads Makes Campaign & Ad Group Targeting Improvements
In its Februrary release, Bing Ads made changes to how ad group and campaign targets relate to each other. Prior to the release on February 18th, ad group targets overrode campaign targets. Now, both target settings will be considered together to improve ad relevancy and delivery. Here is the company’s summary of the change: If […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 24, 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: 10 Tips To Optimize Conversions On Your Mobile Landing Pages In my last article, I discussed How Location & Small Screen Size Impact Search Behavior On Mobile Devices, and the main […]
Bing Completes “Global Ortho” High Resolution Imagery Project For Continental US
Back when Bing Maps was called Microsoft Virtual Earth (2006) the company bought Vexcel, a US Defense Department contractor that specialized in high resolution aerial photography and automated 3D image rendering. That acquisition became the basis of Bing Maps’ subsequent ambitious aerial imagery and 3D mapping efforts. Microsoft then improved upon the camera that Vexcel […]
Microsoft And Nokia Unify Maps On PC, Mobile
Microsoft and Nokia announced the fruit of their recent mapping collaboration today. Each company has a blog post describing what’s changed and improved (Bing, Nokia). The effort comes out of the companies’ strategic partnership in mobile. As part of that arrangement Microsoft is relying heavily on the Nokia-Navteq mapping and data infrastructure. Nokia for its […]
Nokia Now “Powering” Bing Maps
In May of last year I had a conversation with someone who told me that Nokia Maps (Navteq) would effectively replace the infrastructure behind Bing Maps. I was surprised to say the least and wrote about it in a story entitled Bing Maps To Be Powered (Replaced) By Nokia? The impression I got is that […]
Bing Makes Driving Directions Twice As Fast
Chris Pendleton announced on the Bing Maps blog that they have pushed out a major update to their driving directions “routing engine.” The new routing engine is twice as fast as the old one and adds more features like adding up to 3 routes in one request. Previously, Bing Maps used a routing algorithm named […]
Majority Of Smartphone Users Online “Multiple Times” Daily
In New York, at the Mobile Marketing Association forum, Google presented sponsored research on global smartphone user and marketer behavior. The data come from two related studies. The first is an “an online survey of thousands of mobile consumers in 30 countries.” The second is based on “a telephone survey of 1,000 marketing decision makers,” […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 2, 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: Twitter Sees Highest “Sustained” Activity Ever In Wake Of Osama Bin Laden News Twitter has released new numbers showing last night’s announcement that Osama bin Laden was dead generated the most […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 29, 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: Bing Maps’ “Game Changer”: Hi-Res Aerial Imagery Coming To Entire US and Western Europe Hot on the heels of last week’s Read/Write World effort, Bing Maps has announced another ambitious project […]
Bing Maps’ “Game Changer”: Hi-Res Aerial Imagery Coming To Entire US and Western Europe
Hot on the heels of last week’s Read/Write World effort, Bing Maps has announced another ambitious project that will improve its imagery collection. It’s called the Global Ortho Project and the goal is to provide consistent, high resolution (30 cms) imagery across every square inch of the United States and Western Europe by June, 2012. […]
Google Mobile Strategy Playing Out Almost Flawlessly: Ads Growing, Android Beating iPhone
Two sets of data released today show that Google’s mobile strategy is working incredibly well, if not flawlessly. Its AdMob unit reported that it now sees more than two billion ad requests on a daily basis. And comScore also stated that, according to its survey data, Android has just passed the iPhone as the number […]
SEM Lessons From The Fall Of The Berlin Wall
Twenty years ago the fall of the Berlin Wall didn't just change politics in Europe—it changed Europeans behavior. To this day we work and search differently because of fall of the wall, and there are valuable lessons for search marketers in examining in examining this historic event.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 30, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
New iPhone Report From comScore: Everything You Wanted To Know And Then Some
To use a variation on a familiar phrase, the iPhone changes everything. Indeed it has; and everything you ever wanted to know about iPhone adoption and usage is contained in a new report from comScore (“All about the iPhone“). The headline on the press release is about lower-income groups adopting the device for a broad […]
New Virtual Earth Features, APIs & 3D Tools
Microsoft has announced three new enhancements to their mapping solutions with Virtual Earth. The first are new features in Live Search Maps. The second is a new Virtual Earth Web Service and Virtual Earth Map Control 6.2. The third is a new version of Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D and 3DVia.
MSN Introduces Advertising On Mobile Portal
Not long ago, Microsoft’s MSN relaunched its WAP portal. Today the company is introducing display advertising (graphical and text ads) to MSN Mobile in the US market. (Mobile display advertising is already present on MSN in Belgium, France, Japan, Spain, and the UK.) According to AP, inaugural advertisers include Bank of America, Ford (Jaguar), and […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 16, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
‘Mobile Social Networking’ Already Claims Millions Of Users
M:Metrics released numbers on mobile social networking in the US and Europe. The U.S. had the largest audience — primarily mobile versions of social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook — followed by the U.K., Spain, Germany and France. In the U.S. and Western Europe there were 12.3 million mobile social networkers overall, according to […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 19, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Microsoft Virtual Earth Enhances UK 3-D; EveryScape Seeks To Make 3-D Better, Cheaper
Microsoft announced that it’s enhancing Virtual Earth in the UK with improved 3-D elevation data from Intermap Technologies. These improvements will make their way throughout Western Europe and to the U.S. The idea is to use better terrain and elevation data to provide a more photorealistic 3-D experience overall. Meanwhile EveryScape says it has found […]