Mastering voice search SEO: Simple strategies that work
Voice search is changing how people find you. Discover strategies to optimize for natural language, featured snippets, and AI-driven search results.
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How SEOs can embrace AI-powered search
Here's a look at Google's history with AI, how recent developments impact the industry and what SEOs can do to keep up with changing times.
This day in search marketing history: March 10
Google and Bing exception lists, plus: key moments, HTTPS URLs not showing, Google's block sites feature, searchers ignore PPC ads and more.
This day in search marketing history: March 9
Google's Fred update, plus: people also ask, personalization, Google puts bad merchants on notice and more.
SearchCap: SEO success, AdWords spreadsheets & July Fourth
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: This script automates adding any AdWords data to a Google spreadsheetJul 5, 2017 by Frederick Vallaeys Feeling bogged down by all the reports you need to create for your AdWords campaigns? […]
SearchCap: Google Targets Hacked Spam, Keyword Performance Reporting In AdWords & 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: Wanted: Session Ideas For SMX WestOct 6, 2015 by Chris Sherman We want your input to help us plan our upcoming SMX West conference, which will be taking place in San […]
SearchCap: Bing Mobile Friendly Algo, Wolfram Image Identifier & AdWords Editor 11
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 Will Roll Out Their Mobile Friendly Ranking Algorithm In The Upcoming Months Following Google’s lead, Bing announces they will launch a mobile friendly algorithm, but this one won’t be any […]
Wolfram Alpha Launches Image Identification Search Engine
Wolfram Alpha does image search the Wolfram way, but showing entity data around the image as they interpret it.
Like Google, Apple’s Siri Also Gets Stephen Colbert’s Height Wrong
Google came under fire last night from Stephen Colbert, over a direct answer that got the comedian’s height wrong. But Apple’s Siri makes the same mistake — something Colbert didn’t raise during his video appearance at the Apple’s iPad event today. Stephen Colbert Demands Google Apology For Getting His Height Wrong on our Marketing Land […]
Bing Adds Driving Directions In Search Results
Bing announced they now offer driving directions in the form of a quick answer directly in the Bing search results. For example, last week, I drove from New York to Toronto and I wanted to tell how long the drive was. So all you need to do is search for [nyc to toronto] and Bing […]
Bing Quietly Adds A Scientific Full Size Calculator
Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, has finally added a full size scientific calculator to their search results. Daniel Rubino from WP Central first noticed this addition on Friday saying that now when you search for a math answer, not only do you get the answer, but you also get an interactive calculator in the search results. […]
Bing Beats Google With Bitcoin Conversion Tool
First Yandex, and now Bing has beaten Google to offer Bitcoin conversion prices. Bing has announced that people can find the current rates by doing a search on Bing. Bing shared the news in a blog post today. It can be triggered in various ways, such as asking “one dollar in bitcoin,” which yielded this […]
With iOS 7, Siri Drops Google For Bing, Also Gains Twitter Search
Apple’s new iOS 7 mobile operating system officially rolled out today, and with it, the Siri assistant is finally out of beta. The most significant change to Siri is arguably that it no longer taps into Google for searches. As expected, a deal with Microsoft now makes Bing the default in Siri. Twitter also gets a […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 9, 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: 50 Percent Of Companies Struggling With SEO Aren’t Integrating Social Media [Survey] What’s one key difference between companies that are successful with SEO and those that aren’t? According to a new […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 1, 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: How To Manage PPC Closely To A Budget A few weeks ago, at SMX West in San Jose, George Michie of RKG, was talking about the challenges of managing enterprise-level PPC […]
Bing’s April Fools’ Jokes Include A Slam On Google & A New SEO Tag
Bing is hopping on the April Fools’ Day joke bandwagon later than Google and even Wolfram Alpha, but it’s taking a swing at Google in one of the two gags that it just announced via separate blog posts. Bing Basic On its main search blog, Bing has an esoteric blog post that talks about “Bing […]
Wolfram Alpha “Handwrites” Answers For April Fools’ Day
Move over there just a little bit, Google. Even Wolfram Alpha, the computation knowledge engine (as it calls itself), is getting in on the April Fools’ Day gags. For at least a day, the company has announced that it’s now the “handwritten knowledge engine.” Ask it any question, and Wolfram Alpha shows results that look […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 28, 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: With $14 Million More Q&A Site ChaCha Soldiers On Q&A is a great idea that really hasn’t worked. Although Yahoo Answers and a few others are still around — and Ask […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 22, 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: Are Search Engines Driving Libraries To Extinction? Not Quite Yet With today’s instant anywhere-anytime access to Google, Bing and Wolfram Alpha, where searching for information takes a few scant heartbeats via […]
Are Search Engines Driving Libraries To Extinction? Not Quite Yet
With today’s instant anywhere-anytime access to Google, Bing and Wolfram Alpha, where searching for information takes a few scant heartbeats via an internet-connected device, some people regard physical libraries as a quaint relics of a forgotten age. But new research from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project suggests just the opposite: that in […]
What’s The Best Smartphone? Google’s New iOS Search App Says Decide For Yourself
Got the new Google Search app on your iPhone or iPad? Here’s a trick. Ask it, “What’s the best smartphone?” The app will politely decline to say. The app will reply in one of two ways that I’ve found: “No one phone is right for everyone.” “You’ll have to decide for yourself.” Don’t have the […]
iOS Users To Get Enhanced Google Search App Ahead Of Most Android Users
Google announced an enhanced version of Google Voice Search today with some pretty awesome interaction in answers. Android 4.1 users sort of have it already. iOS users will have it in a few days. The rest of the Android world, 4.0 and below? They’ll stay waiting. Answers, Not Search Results Google’s long offered Voice Search […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 3, 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: Google Intros Congressional District Targeting In AdWords Just in time for upcoming elections, Google has released an AdWords feature that lets political candidates (and anyone else, for that matter) target their […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 10, 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: It’s Not WHAT You Need to Go Viral – It’s WHO Everyone dreams of going viral. Think of the traffic! The links! The search signal boosts, the audience growth, the brand […]
Wolfram Alpha To Power Samsung’s Version Of Siri
Wolfram Alpha currently helps answer some questions via Apple’s Voice Search, Siri. Now Wolfram Alpha announced they have partnered with Samsung to power some searches on some Samsung devices. The GALAXY S III and GALAXY Note will now include the Wolfram|Alpha knowledge base with S Voice and S Note applications. Users have to tap the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 9, 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: Cutts: Infographic Links Might Get Discounted In The Future In an in-depth interview between Eric Enge and Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts – Cutts said that Google may discount […]
Wolfram|Alpha Puts 300 Hand-Drawn Query Icons On Its New Homepage
Here’s something you don’t see every day: hand-drawn artwork turned into search queries. Wolfram|Alpha has rolled out a new home page that features nearly 300 icons surrounding the traditional search box. The company says each icon is hand-drawn and represents an “interactive starting point” to help users understand better the types of data and answers […]
Piper Jaffray “Street Test” Of Google vs. Siri Misses The Point
No sooner did I hit “publish” on my earlier post, Google’s “Voice Assistant” Not Quite Siri-Smart But Most People Won’t Notice, than people on Twitter started responding that I was out of my mind. A couple of people cited a Piper Jaffray study, published yesterday, comparing the accuracy and breadth of Siri “search results” vs. […]
Why Apple Is Going “Containment” Not “Thermonuclear” Against Google In iOS 6
I keep hearing people talking about Apple finally going “thermonuclear” on Google with the forthcoming iOS 6 mobile operating system. No, it hasn’t. In fact, there are good reasons why it can’t, though Apple is certainly exercising a much more subtle and smart containment strategy. Themonuclearly Renewing With Google The thermonuclear reference comes from the […]
Apple Siri To Add Sports, Restaurants, Reservations, Movies & App Search
Apple at their World Wide Developer Conference today announced iOS6 with some really nice features to Siri, their voice search engine. You can see a preview of some of these features at Apple.com but here is a snapshot showing enhancements including: Sports Search Restaurants with Reservation Booking Movie Search & Ticketing Search For Apps On […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 16, 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: Google Launches Knowledge Graph To Provide Answers, Not Just Links Hinted at for months, Google formally launched its “Knowledge Graph” today. The new technology is being used to provide popular facts […]
Google Launches Knowledge Graph To Provide Answers, Not Just Links
Hinted at for months, Google formally launched its “Knowledge Graph” today. The new technology is being used to provide popular facts about people, places and things alongside Google’s traditional results. It also allows Google to move toward a new way of searching not for pages that match query terms but for “entities” or concepts that […]
With Fix In Place, Wolfram Alpha Explains How Siri “Recommended” The Lumia By Mistake
It wasn’t Siri that was recommending the Lumia as the best smartphone to some last week; it was Wolfram Alpha. That won’t happen again, now that Wolfram Alpha has made changes to to fix problems it had dealing with customer reviews. Reviews Weren’t Weighted To Account For Number When I looked into the Siri-Lumia issue last […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 14, 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: Smartphone Bot Case Study: The Google Smartphone Bot On Holiday In Australia While Google’s new smartphone bot has been announced, it does not appear to be widely deployed yet; at least […]
Apple Siri’s Recommending Nokia? Then Nokia’s Recommending Android & iPhone, I Guess
Apple’s Siri search feature for the iPhone 4S thinks the Nokia Lumia 900 is the best phone ever? Actually, it’s Wolfram Alpha that thinks this, based on all of four user reviews. While it’s a chuckle that Siri seemed to be recommending the Nokia, it’s a better reminder that Siri itself doesn’t answer questions but […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 26, 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: Penguin Update Recovery Tips & Advice Struggling to know what to do in the wake of Google’s Penguin Update? Judging from all the comments and forum discussions we’ve seen, plenty are. […]
Wolfram Alpha Gets Into Local Search — Very Badly
It’s unlikely to impact Google or Yelp in any way but Wolfram Alpha is getting into local search. According to a blog post today users can now search online or on its mobile apps for nearby businesses in a range of categories (chains only right now): Wolfram|Alpha now knows the locations of some 2.4 million […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 25, 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: Google Launches Update Targeting Webspam In Search Results Google has announced that it is releasing a new search algorithm that it hopes will better catch people who spam its search results […]
Google Graphical Calculator Now 3D & Animated
Google has quietly expanded the graphical calculator feature in Google’s search results to be 3D and animated. Now if you search for certain math equations, the graphical display will be 3D and animated. Google shared this news less than an hour ago on their Google+ page and math junkies (mostly Googlers) are eating it up. […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 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: New Ad Status Info Added To AdWords Google is providing AdWords users with a new way to figure out whether their ads are approved, or not, and why. The new feature […]