Making site links local for search and 30 other search improvements
Google released notes for improvements made in November and December–including 30 tweaks that happened in December. Some of the announcements were never posted before this posting on “Inside Search”...
View ArticleBing speeds up driving directions
Microsoft has completed a big update that speeds up their driving directions “routing engine” for Bing Maps. The new routining engine is double the speed of the last. Additionally, Bing Maps has added...
View ArticleGoogle “Search Plus Your World” feature goes live
Google has enacted big changes that should dramatically affect search ranking results and certainly get the SEO community up in arms. Google’s new feature “Search Plus Your World” was launched today,...
View ArticleGoogle’s Jan 2012 Search Update
Google has released the January 2012 search update that contains a few very interesting parts. Panda In The Pipelines: Google mentioned an improved integration between Panda the Google indexing and...
View ArticleGoogle reports an 136% rise in rejected ads from 2010
In 2008, Google disapproved 25 million ads from it’s Adwords program with an effort to reduce the amount of spam and click fraud. That number has grown considerably since. In 2011, Google disapproved...
View ArticleGoogle wins local search in UK
Based on a study by Implied Intelligence, Google has the most accurate and thorough local search database in the UK. US reports also show the same results. Previously yellow pages websites like...
View ArticleGoogle adds 13 languages to voice search
Google just added 13 new languages to voice search. The language expansion required having to collect hundreds of thousands of utterances from volunteers, as well as solve many new engineering problems...
View ArticleLocal ads through Google now political. Campaigns can now target...
Google has added a new tool that allows political campaigns to ensure that their ads are shown only within their specified district. This tool allows campaigns to “quickly and easily target their...
View ArticleGoogle Search Algorithm Updated so that Sites with too many DMCA Takedown...
Google has announced that its search algorithm will start keeping track of the number of valid copyright removal notices a site receives. According to Google, “this ranking change should help users...
View ArticleCost per lead, the new Yahoo ad experiment
Yahoo, under the direction of Marissa Mayer, has launched a new and innovative ad product for search–cost per lead. The new ad unit will appear as one line below the advertiser profile within the...
View ArticleBing makes pages personal
Earlier in 2012, Bing launched a new search feature called Bing Linked Pages, which allows web pages within it’s index to be “linked” or tagged to people using a relationship indicator. This search...
View ArticleYour Gmail may be found in your personalized search
Google is currently testing a search feature that would display some Gmail content of a user within a search results page. This new personalization feature would focus on content such as orders,...
View ArticleWebsites in the future may recognize you by your looks
Baidu is the most popular search engine in China, and it is working on a new image search feature for facial recognition and an early version of the application is available online. The goal is that...
View ArticleSEO must explore mobile search in 2013
Everyone in the SEO and digital marketing industry seem to be making bets on mobile in 2013. Mobile is more than the latest buzzword or arbitrary fad. From the growing significance of mobile in...
View ArticleAndroid search add updated for 13.6 percent of users
Google updated it’s search app for Android for versions 4.1 (Jelly Bean) or higher, which affect 13.6 percent of users. The changes were modest with the exception of a few spotlight enhancements with...
View ArticleGoogle remains dominant — too bad for foes
Bing and Yahoo are fighting for very distant seconds. Google’s dominance in search is unwaivering–around 67% of the search market. Microsoft Bing slightly increased it’s market share by 0.2% in January...
View ArticleOffer Extensions in Adwords gives direct access to deal offers in search
Google has released, ever so quietly, a new tool within Adwords called Offer Extensions that lets marketers post deal offers right in a PPC search ad. The tool is available to marketers that have...
View ArticleMany small and medium business websites never find their place in search
According to a study by vSplash that audited of 3.9 million US small and medium business websites, approximately 26.4% of SMBs are no where to be seen web searches due to the fact that SMB websites...
View ArticleThis way to exit Google’s vertical search services
Google has recently created an exit option for it’s vertical search services, such as Google Shopping, Google Flights or Google+ Local. It sounds like a strange, new innovation for the search giant,...
View ArticleOne quarter of global search ad clicks result from Baidu
Baidu dominates web search in China, and because of it’s dominant position there, it owns roughly one quarter of global ad click search volume within Q1. A new report from Covario shows Baidu’s...
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