New US Presidential “Candidate Cards” Are A Disaster For Google’s Search Quality

An experiment to allow US presidential candidates to have an unprecedented guaranteed spot at the top of Google’s search results have turned into a megaphone for one.

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Final Call: Early Bird Rates Expire Saturday. Register For SMX West.

Supercharge your search marketing campaigns by attending Search Engine Land’s SMX West. Join others obsessed with SEO & SEM March 1–3 in San Jose, CA. Early bird rates expire this Saturday, so register today! Don’t miss out on three days of: Performance-boosting SEO & SEM sessions. View the…

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Yahoo Redesigns Homepage & App To Deliver Consistent Experience With More Relevant News

With its now nearly infinite news stream, Yahoo users no longer need to open news articles in multiple browser tabs.

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Find Your Technology-Powered Solutions At MarTech. See Who’s Exhibiting.

Join us at MarTech, where marketing meets IT. The strategy-packed agenda is only part of what makes MarTech an exceptional conference. The expo hall is packed with leading industry vendors waiting to provide you with the next tool or solution. Pass options are available. Register today!

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Brand Bidding & PPC Optimization: How We Got Here (Part 1 of 8)

The biggest question facing paid search advertisers is how to get meaningful growth numbers out of PPC. Columnist Lori Weiman believes the answer lies with brand bidding.

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Microsoft Pulls Funding For Anti-Google Lobbying Group FairSearch

According to a report in Re/Code appearing last week, Microsoft has pulled financial support from FairSearch, an anti-Google “watchdog” or lobbying group that has been at the forefront of advancing European antitrust moves against the company. We sought comment from Microsoft when the…

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Is Apple About To Launch A Competitor To Google Street View?

Google Street View is a dramatic and sometimes useful feature of Google Maps that helped set it apart from competitors such as Nokia Maps and Bing Maps a few years ago. Now, there’s evidence that Apple may be seeking to create its own version of Street View. The following posting appears on…

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SearchCap: AdGooroo Launches New Tool, Google’s Candidate Cards & Today’s Google Doodle

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

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Google Introduces Candidate Cards In Search For Presidential Election Season

Google is giving Republican and Democratic candidates a privileged place in search in 2016. The company has launched what it says is an experimental feature that will create a prominent placement for the candidates’ own messages and content in a horizontal carousel in search results. This is…

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