Is The Mobile Migration Of Graph Search Upon Us? New Facebook Test Uncovers Mobile Web Integration
We’ve been saying that it is just a matter of time for Facebook’s Graph Search to make its way to mobile devices. A test spotted yesterday by InsideFacebook shows that the launch may be close. The test shows an in-depth integration for mobile web users that contains the same bells and…
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Microsoft Shuttering Bing Ads Express
Bing Ads Express, Microsoft’s program to encourage small businesses to adopt the paid search platform, will be sunsetted this summer. Launched just last October and modeled on Google’s own AdWords Express, the program was designed to simplify and automate paid search advertising across…
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Microsoft’s Catapult Project Aims To Speed Bing Search, Improve Relevancy
A major datacenter project at Microsoft could lead to faster and more relevant search results on the company’s 5-year-old search engine, Bing. The Catapult project is a collaboration between Microsoft researchers and the Bing team that was presented Monday at an industry conference on…
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Yandex, The Big Russian Search Engine, Goes 100% Not Provided
Yandex announced (in Russian) today that they have now went 100% secure, encrypting all search queries, resulting in a huge jump in the [not provided] count. This was first reported by Anna Oshkalo who shared a screen shot of her analytics detailed the…
Google Previews New AdWords Policy Center, Will Go Live September
A new Policy Center will be coming to AdWords this September. Google says that policies will be streamlined and that there will be more transparency into why policies exist and what advertisers should do to comply. A preview of the updated Policy Cente…
Screen Shot Of Google’s New Rejection Notices For Reconsideration Requests
At SMX Advanced last week, Google’s head of search quality, Matt Cutts, announced that they will be revising their reconsideration requests rejection noticed with more detailed responses in some cases. We’ve now located an example of the new rejection notices, as shared by…
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With 1 Billion+ Travel Pins, Pinterest Gives Place Search An Upgrade
Forget the idea that Pinterest is all about fashion photos, cute animals and inspirational messages. The company says it’s now hosting more than a billion Place Pins across four million Place Boards. Together, all this represents more than 300 unique countries and territories. That’s a…
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MSFT: No Plans To Monetize Cortana Yet, But We Do Want Her To Be Pervasive
It’s far too early to consider monetizing Cortana, Microsoft’s new virtual personal assistant, but the company is already thinking about how to scale her across different devices, platforms and around the world. Those were two of the key points from Microsoft’s keynote…
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Google’s Payday Loan Algorithm 3.0 Rolling Out Now
Google is now rolling out the 3rd version of the PayDay Loan algorithm. Last night we reported that Google is going to be launching PayDay Loan 3.0 and Google’s Matt Cutts posted on Twitter moments ago that it is now rolling out. Cutts, Google’s head of search quality said,…
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Bing Ads URL Auto-Tagging Finally Arrives
Rejoice, the Bing Ads team has finally rolled out one of its most-requested features — auto-tagging for ad destination URLs. When UTM tags are added to destination URLs on ads, the performance metrics can flow into Google Analytics. Until now, advertisers have had to manually add tag URLs or…
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Microsoft’s SMX Advanced Keynote: Cortana Makes People More Likely To Search
We’re ready to get started on day two of SMX Advanced, and today’s opening keynote promises to talk about the future of search. Microsoft’s Marcus Ash (Group Program Manager for Windows Phone) and Rob Chambers (Group Program Manager, Applications and Services Group) will be here…
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Bing Uses Its Predictions Technology To Forecast 2014 World Cup Winners
To kick-off today’s 2014 FIFA World Cup, Bing has launched a number of features around the tournament, including using its Bing Predictions technology to forecast World Cup winners. “On the heels of our recent foray into predictions, where we forecasted which contestants were most…
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Google’s Matt Cutts: MetaFilter Hit By An Algorithm But Not Panda Or Penguin
Last month, MetaFilter, a news and discussion site from back in the old days, told us they got hit by a Google penalty years ago that had a major impact on their business. We posted our theories and details on this penalty in our post named On MetaFilt…
Google Reconsideration Rejection Requests More Details
Google’s Matt Cutts, the head of search spam, announced at SMX Advanced that they are updating how they handle reconsideration rejection requests with more details from Google Search Quality analysts. That means when a Google search quality representation reviews and responds to a…
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Google Launching Payday Loan Algorithm 3.0 Targeting Spammy Queries This Week
Google’s head of webspam, Matt Cutts, announced at SMX Advanced tonight that the third version of PayDay Loan algorithm is launching this week, as soon as tomorrow. This algorithm specifically targets “very spammy queries” and is unrelated to the Panda or Penguin algorithms….
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Live Blog: Matt Cutts Keynote Q&A At SMX Advanced 2014
Day one of our SMX Advanced conference is wrapping up, but before we call it a day … it’s time for an SMX Advanced tradition: Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s webspam fighting team, in a keynote conversation with our Founding Editor, Danny Sullivan. With all of the recent news…
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Bing Says “Right To Be Forgotten” Request Info Coming Soon
The EU’s new Right To Be Forgotten doesn’t just apply to Google. Microsoft’s Bing search engine has to obey it, as well — and Microsoft says today that it expects to provide information on how to request removals “soon.” In a short help file page that went up…
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Google My Business: A Visual Tour Of Google’s New Tool For Local Businesses & Brands
Google My Business is Google’s new unified interface designed to make life easier for local businesses as well as brands to be better found within Google. It’s a big, huge change. Our visual tour below is designed to give you an overview. Getting Started Google My Business was announced…
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Keylime Toolbox And Moz Analytics Debut “Not Provided” Data Recovery Solutions
Today, two companies announced new solutions to help solve the “not provided” problem that leaves SEOs in the dark about the search queries that lead users to their sites. Moz has added a new report to Moz Analytics, and Keylime Toolbox is a new company offering SEO Analytics Software…
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Pinterest Is Bringing Guided Search To Desktop Users In The Next Few Weeks
Pinterest wants to be the search engine that helps people find things that they didn’t even know they were looking for. Two months ago, the company rolled out Guided Search on mobile devices and billed it as a revolutionary way for its users to consume and browse Pinterest, which CEO Ben…
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