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Yahoo CEO: Google AI Mode is the biggest threat to web traffic
Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone warns that answer engines are starving publishers of clicks, and says creators deserve traffic from AI search.
Yahoo adds personalized homepage to its Scout AI search engine
Yahoo introduced MyScout, a personalized homepage for its Scout AI answer engine. It turns Yahoo’s AI search into a daily dashboard.
Yahoo debuts Scout, an AI search and companion experience
Yahoo Scout is Yahoo's come back to search, using AI, its massive network and data to give you a more fun AI search experience.
Yahoo Shopping aims to stand out in commerce discovery with Rakuten cashback rewards
The effort is part of parent company Verizon Media's focus on commerce offerings.
Why we updated Search Engine Land’s newsletter (and why we think you’ll love it)
We've got one main goal with our new daily brief: Deliver a great piece of content that helps you become better search marketers.
Bing Ads will serve all Yahoo search ads in new Microsoft-Verizon Media deal
The extended partnership will make all Yahoo search inventory available through the Bing Ads platform. Bing Ads will continue to serve all AOL search inventory.
SearchCap: Fred report, Bing Ads budgets & Google rich cards
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 says it has now tracked 4 billion store visits from adsMar 29, 2017 by Ginny Marvin The company says thousands more advertisers will gain access to store visits data as […]
Yahoo Asking Firefox Users To Make Yahoo Search Their Default Search Engine
After Yahoo lost some Firefox users to Google, Yahoo begins notifying these users to switch back to Yahoo Search as their default search provider in Firefox.
SearchCap: Apple Maps Connect, Foursquare Data & Yahoo Search Personalized
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 Search Now Shows Your Flights, Events & Packages In The Search Results Yahoo announced that Yahoo Search, as well as Yahoo Mail‘s Today section will now show you your upcoming […]
Yahoo Search Now Shows Your Flights, Events & Packages In The Search Results
Yahoo announced that Yahoo Search, as well as Yahoo Mail‘s Today section will now show you your upcoming flights, events and package deliveries. To see this, you need to sign in with your Yahoo username on your phone, tablet, or PC and then search on Yahoo Search for [package], [events], or [flights] and you may […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 2, 2014
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’s Matt Cutts: We Can Improve Our Algorithms For Authorities On Topics In an interesting video released by Matt Cutts, Google’s head of webspam, Matt answers the question on how Google […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 2, 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: Want To Speak @ SMX Advanced? Here’s How The agenda is live, and we’re now accepting submissions to speak at SMX Advanced 2013 in Seattle, on June 11-12, 2013. To increase […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 11, 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: Google’s Cutts On How To Locate Unnatural Links Pointing To Your Web Site Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, released a video today explaining how a webmaster can location which […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 12, 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 Updates SafeSearch Filter In Image Search Google has changed the default behavior of their image search to work similarly to how web search works. Now when you search for less […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 11, 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 Finally Adds Their Hanukkah Decorations To The Search Results If you search for [hanukkah] or [dreidel] or [menorah] and so on – you will see special Hanukkah decorations on the […]
Confirmed: Marissa Mayer Leaving Google For Yahoo CEO Role
Marissa Mayer is leaving Google today, and will take over as Yahoo’s President and CEO as of tomorrow. The 37-year-old Mayer was Google’s 20th employee and has been responsible for a number of Google products over the years. Most recently, she oversaw development of Google’s local products and services. Yahoo has struggled to find a leader […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 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: Google Sued By Texas Attorney General To Turn Over Documents According to a report in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Google has been sued by the Texas Attorney General’s office. The […]
8 Products That Might Be On Yahoo’s Chopping Block
Yahoo’s product teams are officially on notice. Shortly after announcing Q1 earnings yesterday, new Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson dropped a bomb during the analysts’ call when he said the company will be “shutting down or transitioning roughly 50 properties that don’t contribute meaningfully to engagement or revenue.” He went on to say that Yahoo’s focus […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 12, 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: The 1940 U.S. Census: Soon, A Searcher’s Treasure Trove Big news for genealogists, historians and even for people just curious about their own families: the 1940 U.S. Census is now available […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 20, 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: Wikipedia Appears On Google’s Page One Only 46% Of Time, Study Shows Wikipedia doesn’t pwn Google nearly as much as the SEO industry thinks it does. In fact, according to a […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 8, 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: Two New Bing UI Tests Spotted The folks at Liveside.net, an independent blog that covers Microsoft’s online efforts, have posted screenshots of two new Bing user interfaces that some of their […]
The Alphabet of Google+ Direct Connect
A new feature of Google+ is Google+ Direct Connect, where typing the name of a company preceded by a + symbol will make that company’s Google+ Page appear as a suggestion in the search box, in the right circumstances. Who are the lucky few, so far? Here’s an alphabetical rundown, which reveals a number of […]
Yahoo Product Runway: Livestand And IntoNow
Yahoo held its second now annual “Product Runway” event, mc’d by product chief Blake Irving. Irving was assisted by some younger executives from companies that Yahoo had acquired in the recent past. There were four announcements, lead by the formal unveiling of Livestand, Yahoo’s long-promised tablet news reader application. It competes with Flipboard, CNN’s Zite, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 28, 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 Tweaks Its Rel=Author Display, Promotes Google+ In Search Results Google has rolled out a few changes to how it shows results that use the rel=author markup. Some of these are […]
As Yahoo Struggles Can It “Bring Sexy Back”?
Yesterday Yahoo released Q3 revenues. While they generally met expectations, and operating income came in at the “high end” of Yahoo’s guidance, overall revenues and profit declined: Revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs (“revenue ex-TAC”) was $1,072 million for the third quarter of 2011, a 5 percent decrease from the third quarter of 2010. Income from operations […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 3, 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: Direct Google’s Crawl To Your New and Updated Pages Today, Google launched a new way for site owners to request that specific web pages be crawled. How is this different from […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 24, 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: How To Fix Common Analytics Mistakes In Multinational eCommerce SEO One of the major headaches in multinational campaigns is solving the many web analytics issues thrown up as a result of […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 28, 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: Microsoft Q3 2011 Earnings: Search & Online Up 14% In Revenue But Still Losing Profits Microsoft announced their 3rd quarter earnings, beating Wall Street expectations. They reported $16.43 billion for the […]
The New York Times Paywall Meters All Google Visits, Not Just Search Visits
The New York Times launched its paywall globally today, and I’ve been putting the barrier through its paces. Visits from search engines like Google, for convoluted reasons, are limited to five per day. But as it turns out, visits from any Google site — search or not — appear blocked. To test how the new […]
Yahoo Beats Expectations with Weak $1.5B Revenues, But Display Up 17 Percent
Yahoo reported Q4 2010 earnings this afternoon. Revenues were slightly up vs. the previous quarter but down compared to the same period a year ago. CEO Carol Bartz called them “encouraging.” Gross revenues were $1.53 billion, down 12 percent from 2009. Search revenues were down; though in a surprise bright spot for Yahoo display ad […]
Study: Google “Favors” Itself Only 19% Of The Time
For the past year or so, there’s been a rising meme that Google is altering its search results in ways to favor itself over competitors. Now a new study is out showing the opposite. Google is far more likely not to show its own products in the first spot of its search results. The survey […]
Facebook Messages: Export Of Facebook.com Addresses OK
How well can the new Facebook Messages interact with other email services? Pretty much not at all, Facebook told me. You can export some addresses, and you can forward email into Facebook, but that’s about it. I spoke with Facebook’s director of engineering Andrew Bosworth after today’s Facebook press conference about the new Facebook Messaging […]
Live Blogging The Facebook Messages / Email Event – With Screenshots!
Today, Facebook is widely expected to announce that it is offering email to its members. Will that be the case? We’ll all find out soon enough. I’ll be live blogging the Facebook event that begins at 10am Pacific Time. Also see our expanded piece: How The New Facebook Messages & Email System Works
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 10, 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: Foursquare’s Crowley Can Feel Foursquare Fatique, Has Plans To Fix It Feeling Foursquare fatigue and perhaps wondering what’s the point of checking in at times? Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley sometimes feels […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 28, 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: Microsoft Records Their Q1 2010 Earnings, Bing Takes Loss Again Microsoft announced their Q1 2010 fiscal earnings with a 25% increase in revenue, $16.20 billion for the quarter ended Sept. 30, […]
Flickr Makes Finding Friends A Snap
Flickr wants its users to make more connections and has launched a new tool that simplifies the process: Find your friends. It’s a search engine that looks for Flickr users you may know across five platforms: Flickr itself, Yahoo Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, and Facebook. The new tool is accessible via a “People you may know” […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 27, 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: Going Places? Bing Maps Optimizes Your Trips Bing has added a new tool to its Bing Maps App Gallery — a tool that aims to optimize road trips when you have […]
Yahoo Mail Beta Improves Searching Yahoo Mail
The big buzz last night was from Yahoo releasing the Yahoo Mail Beta globally. The new beta vastly improves speed, security, email search while offering a “more social email experience,” said Yahoo. The Yahoo Search Blog briefly explained “you’ll find a faster email search using Yahoo’s wealth of search science and technology.” The new left-hand […]
Bartz: ‘Creepy’ Facebook Could Be Yahoo’s Top Competitor
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz says Facebook has a “creepy” amount of personal information about its users, and could become Yahoo’s number one competitor because of the value of that data. Her comments came about 10 days ago at the USA Today CEO Forum in Atlanta, and have just been published today on the paper’s website. […]