Twitter Launches Its Version Of Universal Search Results
Twitter is in the process of rolling out what you could call its version of “universal search results” on Twitter.com. The changes bring Twitter’s web search more in line with the current mobile experience. Twitter announced the changes this afternoon via tweet: Search update on…
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 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: Five Years Later, Ex-Farecast Founder Asks “What Is Bing Doing?” Oren Etzioni, the founder of Farecast who sold it to Microsoft in 2008, says…
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Matt Cutts: Be Careful About How You Choose Your ccTLDs
Google considers many ccTLDs to be specific to a country, so be careful about how you choose your TLDs. Particularly, you need to be careful when you’re using a ccTLD with the intent to be something different from how it is generally used.
Five Years Later, Ex-Farecast Founder Asks “What Is Bing Doing?”
Oren Etzioni, the founder of Farecast who sold it to Microsoft in 2008, says he’s “disappointed” with Bing’s development and “expected more” from Microsoft’s search engine. As Geekwire reports, Etzioni made his comments to an audience last night at a…
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Changes Afoot At Search Engine Land & Marketing Land Columns
I’m pleased to announce that we’ve made some changes in our columns line-up to better showcase the great work contributed by our talented columnist-practitioners. The biggest change is that we’re moving some of our columns from Search Engine Land to Marketing Land, so we want to…
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German Publishers Opt-In To Google News — For The Moment
Following the enactment of a controversial copyright law in Germany, Google said that it would require publishers to formally “opt-in” to Google News or be excluded from results. Accordingly major German publishers have decided to do so — for now. The new law, which went into…
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Tubular Labs Crunches Big Data to Create Audience Dashboard for YouTube
Attention brands, digital studios, and video creators: You now have a new tool to gain insights into your YouTube channel’s performance. The Tubular analytics suite enables you to identify and engage superfans and influencers, and grow your audience.
Welcome Lauren Litwinka, New Community Editor & Congrats Monica Wright, New Director Of Audience Engagement
Search Engine Land keeps growing our staff! Today, we’re happy to announce that Lauren Litwinka is coming on as our new Community Editor while Monica Wright moves up into a new Director Of Audience Engagement position. Lauren will be directly interacting with our audience on Twitter,…
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Maria Mitchell Google Doodle Honors First Female Astronomer
American astronomer Maria Mitchell is celebrated in today’s Google Doodle. Born 195 years ago, she discovered a new comet in 1847, which later became known as Miss Mitchell’s Comet. The Doodle depicts Mitchell the night she discovered the new comet.
Google Analytics Stop Working For You? You Are Not Alone.
There are tons of reports in the Google Analytics Help forums reporting a bug that the Google Analytics reports stopped working and updating yesterday.
The weird thing is that it isn’t impacting everyone…
Miss Maria Mitchell’s Comet Google Logo For First Female Astronomer
Today on the Google home page in America is a special Google logo for Maria Mitchell, the first professional female astronomer.
She is best known for the discovery of a comet named after her, the “Miss Mitchell’s Comet…
Google Tests Sitelinks That Expand Out
Two SEOs spotted Google testing a new design for Google Sitelinks. The new design has sitelinks that expand and show sub-sitelinks in a gray background area. Google tested something similar on mobile sitelinks a few months ago…
Finally! Responsive Design Ad Units For Google AdSense
Everyone is asking? What took so long?! Google has finally announced a beta of a new ad unit designed for responsive designed web pages.
In the past, Google said…
What is ‘Pure Spam’? 10 Examples From Google
We all have our own definition of “pure spam”, but what’s more important is understanding what Google means by it. Here’s a look at 10 websites Google has kicked out of its search results so you can understand what qualifies as “pure spam”.
Rejoice! Safari Is Once Again Providing Google Referral Information In iOS
Since last September, people using Safari on iOS devices and searching on Google have appeared to publishers as if they came directly to their sites, not via Google. Now, the problem has ended, with iOS now apparently having been upgraded to support the “meta referrer” tag. No, this…
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5 Critical SEO Mistakes Leaders Must Avoid
It isn’t easy being a leader in today’s digital economy. The rapid shifts in technology and the way customers adapt to it has transformed business. Barriers between online and offline business have broken down. Capital alone is no longer decisive in determining success. Google’s…
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Google Honors Maria Mitchell With Logo To Celebrate Her 195th Birthday
Today’s Google logo celebrates the first professional female astronomer in the US, Maria Mitchell. The animated logo depicts Mitchell atop a roof, staring at the stars with a handheld telescope. Before becoming a professional astronomer, Mitchell discovered a comet in 1847 that was named Miss…
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Collaborative Content Marketing With Big Brands
Getting a content marketing campaign off the ground in the enterprise can take some heavy lifting. But it doesn’t have to be that way. A little collaboration could be all that’s needed for your search engine friendly results to take flight.
How to Transform Text Ads Into Product Listing Ads Using Google Spreadsheets
Google Spreadsheets is a simple spreadsheet that’s well integrated into the Merchant Center. Here’s how you can manually create a system that will get your data into Merchant Center, and from there into Google Shopping via AdWords.