Network with Your Marketing Peers at SMX East – Sept. 30 – Oct. 2 in NYC
We’ve already highlighted the exceptional content and highly qualified presenters at SMX East. But there’s another aspect of the show that is just as important and valuable – networking. And with well over 1000 companies sending delegates (so far), there are lots of people to connect…
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Bing Image Widget Now Offline After Getty Images Lawsuit
The Bing Image Widget that launched on August 22nd is now temporarily offline after Getty Images sued Microsoft over the feature. If you try to access the tool, you will be presented with a notice that the “Image Widget” has been “temporarily removed the beta.” Here is a…
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Post-Pigeon Best Practice: How To Optimize For Internet Yellow Pages & Directories
While many marketers have written off Internet Yellow Pages as dead, the recent Google Pigeon update may have made them relevant once more.
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Google Now Showing Knowledge Snippets In Search Results
Google is now showing snippets of knowledge, facts or answers, directly in the snippet portion of the search results. Alex Chitu noticed this saying “Google now shows a list of facts next to some Wikipedia results.” These are “Knowledge Graph data extracted from Wikipedia is now…
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Google Pushes Back Against EU Publisher PR Offensive
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt took to the Google Europe Blog this weekend to defend his company against a Europe-wide ad campaign that asserts Google has abused its dominant market position in search. It’s essentially a public appeal on the same terms being argued to the European…
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SearchCap: Bing Xiaolce, Google Sitelinks Search & EU-Google Deal Problems
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 Launches Xiaolce Chinese Chatbot With Cortana Smarts For Windows Phone After taking its Windows Phone 8.1 with…
Bing Launches Xiaolce Chinese Chatbot With Cortana Smarts For Windows Phone
After taking its Windows Phone 8.1 with Cortana to China last month, Bing announced today the launch of XiaoIce (“little ice”), a Chinese-speaking social assistant chatbot for Windows Phone users. According to the announcement on Bing’s search blog, XiaoIce’s technology is…
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What’s A Good PPC Account Structure, Anyway?
Is there an ideal way to structure an AdWords account, or is every case special? Contributor Sam Owen explores the issue.
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Search In Pics: Google Gumball Machine, Google Bike & Server Rack 1,000
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. Google+ Sponsors Maraton CDMX 2015: Source: Google+ Google Server Rack…
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Use Holiday Search Data To Prep Your SEM Campaigns For The Upcoming Season
When are people searching for and when are people searching on Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday?
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Latest Google Product Listing Ads Test: Segment By Brand
Google has been running several experiments on the way it displays product listing ads (PLAs) in the search results. We’ve seen ads grouped in pricing buckets, PLAs showing in knowledge panels, and now, PLAs segmented by brand. While researching Chromebooks, Samuel Edwards at Tenthwave…
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Google Allows Developers Integrate With Search Within Site Feature
Google announced a few changes to the search box you find within the Google search results. Often, when you search for a brand name, Google will add a search box within the search snippet result for that site. That box allows you to search within that …
EU-Google Antitrust Deal May Be Collapsing
Since the first Google antitrust settlement proposal was announced in 2013 the company’s rivals and critics have complained loudly that it doesn’t go far enough to remedy what they see as Google’s unjustified “diversion” of their traffic to Google’s own…
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SearchCap: Google AdWords Callouts, Bing Ads Close Variants & Getty Images Sues Over Bing Image Widget
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Getty Images Sues Microsoft For “Massive Infringement” Of Copyright By Bing Image Widget It didn’t take long for Bing’s new Image Widget…
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Getty Images Sues Microsoft For “Massive Infringement” Of Copyright By Bing Image Widget
It didn’t take long for Bing’s new Image Widget to come under fire for alleged copyright infringement. The feature, which enables online publishers to display photos pulled in by the Bing search engine, rolled out Aug. 22. Today, Getty Images filed suit in a New York federal court…
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Repositioning SEO Inside Your Company So Everyone Wins – September 23 Webcast
Digital Marketing Depot presents “Repositioning SEO Inside Your Company So Everyone Wins” on Tuesday September 23 at 1 PM EDT. This webcast is about why and how your company can benefit from repositioning search engine optimization (SEO) inside your company to give your branding efforts…
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Close Variants Come To Broad Match Modifier In Bing Ads
A couple of weeks ago, Bing Ads announced it is testing close variants keyword matching on exact and phrase match terms. Today, they added close variants for broad match modifier keywords in the U.S. Using close variants means that the search engine wi…
Could DuckDuckGo Overtake Bing?
Amid growing privacy concerns and a deal with Apple, DuckDuckGo has the potential to become a major player in search.
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YouTube Keyword Tool Sunsets: Replaced By AdWords Display Planner Tool
The YouTube keyword tool has been shuttered for good. The company announced it would sunset on September 1st in favor of the Display Planner’s AdWords for video keyword suggestions. Users must have an AdWords account to access the Display Planner. Google began alerting users that the tool…
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Google Kerning Easter Egg Plays Tricks With Typography
Google UK’s Peter Far found an Easter Egg designed specifically for hardcore typography fans. If you search for [kerning] in one tab, and [typography kerning] in another, you’ll notice a little extra space between the lettering on the [kerning] search results page. Search Engine…
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