September Search Market: Flat As A Pancake

The September search market share data from comScore got pushed out earlier this evening by financial analysts. As always these numbers aren’t official until comScore releases them tomorrow. Here are the figures as we received them: Google — September: 66.9 percent; August: 66.9 percent…

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Bing Gives IE11 Users A Quick Look At The Top Search Result With New “Pre-Rendering” Feature

Bing released a new search feature today that “almost instantly” renders the associated page of the top search result when clicked. With the goal of providing a “faster end-to-end search experience,” the new “pre-rendering” feature is currently available only to…

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Google Images: Search By Image Not Working For Many

Google’s Search By Image feature is currently not functioning for many searchers. The search by image feature allows a searcher to take an image from their computer or plug in an image source URL into Google Images and Google will return related images, with web pages that may have more…

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Eating My (Key)Words: Changing The Way We Think About SEO

I have glimpsed the future of search, and it is not keyword-driven. While I have long been an advocate of using keywords as an indicator of a searcher’s intent, I am about to eat my words. The truth is that search is heading in a direction that most of us could not have foreseen… a […]

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Google And SEO Communications: Swahili Vs. Latin

There are many in the SEO community that get very frustrated with Google, and one of the reasons for this is simple: there is a communications gap. This is not a simple case of US English vs. UK English, but more like Swahili vs. Latin. Many publishers — and many who profess to be SEO…

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