Yandex’s New Interactive Snippets Allow Users to Take Actions From Search Results
Russian-based Yandex has introduced a revolutionary way for users to interact with search results by letting them pay bills, buy movie tickets and much more right in the SERPs without ever having to click through to the website.
Google Beats Apple & Facebook For Most Favorite Tech Company With 83% Favorable Rating
A Washington Post poll ranking tech giants Google, Apple and Facebook revealed most Americans favor Google. Of the 1,007 Americans surveyed, 83 percent gave Google a favorable rating, while 72 percent gave Apple a favorable rating. Facebook scored the …
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: June 7, 2013
This week I published the monthly Google Webmaster report…
Tips To Ensure The Validity Of Your Day Parting
One of the most classic and beneficial analyses conducted for paid traffic acquisition channels is day parting. Not all visits are equal, and the time of day/day of week of the visit usually has a strong correlation with user qualification and likeliho…
Search In Pics: Miley Ray Cyrus At Twitter, Google Giant Koosh Ball & NYC Glass Fitting Area
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Ingress Birthday Cake: Source: Google+ Miley Ray Cyrus At Twitter: Source:…
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How to Use Google Analytics Visitors Flow Reports to Improve Conversion Rates
We all want our website to be user friendly. But you don’t get there without constant analysis and optimization. Here’s how the Visitor Flow reports within Google Analytics can help you determine the complexity of your website to the average user.
Google Testing “In-Depth Articles” Search Results, A New Rich Snippet?
Dr. Peter Meyers, the Marketing Scientist at Moz, formerly SEOmoz, tipped us off to a new Google search interface test. It appears Google is testing showing “in-depth articles” in the search results for local queries. In the screen shot below, Pete triggered these results by searching…
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Google Images Tests New Related Searches User Interface
Google Operating System reports Google is testing a new Image Search interface for related searches. The example given shows images for [nexus 7] and at the top is a carousel of related searches to the [nexus 7]. When you click on one of those related …
Yandex Islands: Interactive Snippets: A Webmasters Worst Nightmare?
Yandex, Russia’s most popular search engine, announced the launch of a beta of their Yandex “Islands” or as they describe it “interactive snippets,” yesterday in Turkey.
In short, interactive snippets lets searchers complete their goals directly in …
Google Study: Spend More On AdWords To Increase Your Movie Sales
Guess what? Google tells movie producers that if they want their movies to sell better they need to spend more with search ads or AdWords.
Google, I Want To Cloak…
Sometime the shortest responses are the best. A Google Webmaster Help thread has a long detailed example given by a webmaster looking to do some cloaking to make their site work…
Google Now: Taking the Search Out of Search
In a world filled with distractions, an effortless user experience is becoming a more desirable quality. Google is working to create the most effortless experience ¬– one that proactively delivers information before you even think to search for it.
Login With Amazon: What is it and Why Should Online Business Owners Care?
Amazon’s new sign-in service, Login with Amazon could be a foot in the door for online retailers to Amazon’s significant shopper base of more than 200 million active customers, and those potential purchases. But will shoppers buy-in?
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo Deny Involvement in NSA PRISM Spy Program
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has been named in a massive surveillance operation which includes monitoring activity on multiple U.S. carriers and service providers. Companies deny giving the government direct access to their servers.
State AGs: Google Still Allows & Profits From Illegal Drug Ads
The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) is accusing Google of continuing to give consumers access to illegal and counterfeit goods — including drugs — in its search results, and letting sites that deal in such goods to advertise with Google. NAAG has asked Google co-founder…
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Google Claims Searches & Paid Clicks Can Predict Box Office Success With 92% Accuracy
A newly released white paper from Google claims the search engine can predict a movie’s opening weekend performance within 92 percent accuracy based on search query and paid click volume. After evaluating search and paid click data for 99 top box office films in 2012, Google correlated the…
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 6, 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: Bing Pushes To Build Marketshare Through “Bing It On” For Faster Airport Wifi I got a surprise recently on my trip through Orange County’s John Wayne Airport….
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Bing Pushes To Build Marketshare Through “Bing It On” For Faster Airport Wifi
I got a surprise recently on my trip through Orange County’s John Wayne Airport. When I tapped into the free wifi there, I was offered a “premium connection speed upgrade” if I took Bing’s Bing It On challenge. It turns out Bing has been doing this in several airports since…
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AdWords Image Extensions Bring Images to Google Search Ads
AdWords is expanding their reach with the search results ads by now allowing advertisers to use image extensions with their ads so that images may show up along with the AdWords ads. It’s beta, and is officially called the image extensions beta.