Google’s DoubleClick Goes Down, Costing Publishers Dearly
Yesterday, one of the largest ad serving platforms on the web, Google’s DoubleClick for Publishers, went down…
Bing Gets Serious About Crawling Mobile Web: Bingbot Mobile User Agents
Bing is getting serious about crawling the mobile web, finally. At least now, they shared how they are doing it by adding new Bingbot mobile user agents, so they can crawl more of the mobile web…
Google Now Actions: Search Actions For Android Apps
A couple days ago, Google’s Shawn Simister released code via GitHub showing how Android developers can integrate Google Now Actions directly into their Android apps…
Google Penguin Updating Or Google Panda Refreshing This Morning?
I am seeing early but significant chatter this morning around Google algorithm and search results changes. Some are saying it is Penguin related and some are saying it is Panda related. It is too early to tell…
Google Philae Doodle Recognizes The First Controlled Touchdown
Hours ago, Google posted a Google Doodle for the Philae spacecraft…
New Google AdWords Bid Strategies Reports
Google announced on Google+ that the AdWords reporting interface now has two new reports around bid strategies. If you do not see them yet, don’t worry…
Google Search Time Conversions
One thing I do all the time and hate to do is figuring out a good time for a meeting between my location, New York and places overseas, like in Australia, Israel, the UK and so forth.
There are web sites that do the conversion, but I find it always c…
Google Trends Now Shows What’s Trending On YouTube
Google announced yesterday on Google+ that Google Trends at google.com/trends now has a new feature to show you the top 200 trending videos on YouTube.
Currently it works in the US…
Google: HTTPS Support Has Grown 300% In Past Two Years
Ilya Grigorik from Google, he is the man there obsessed with speed, SSL and mobile, has shared some interesting stats on the adoption of HTTPS across the top 300 sites on the web.
(1) HTTPS adoption for the top 300K sites has grown by 300%+ over the l…
2014 Veteran’s Day Logo From Google
Today is Veteran’s Day and Google and the other search engines have their logos up.
Here are the logos but to see the past years, see 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 and 2004.
For some reason, AOL, Yahoo, Ask…
Google Answers Is Constantly Changing
Eric Enge posted on Google+ a summary of what he published on Search Engine Land on how the answer box on Google is being tested constantly…
Google Mobile Ads May Show Three Business Locations
Google quietly announced on Google+ that now some branded business queries may show an ad with two or three business locations to choose from when the searcher is within a specific mile radius of multiple locations…
Google Analytics Adds A New AdWords Report For Aggregate Account Reporting
Google announced on Google+ that there is a new Google Analytics report for AdWords customers who manage multiple AdWords accounts for the same site.
Google explained that many advertisers have multiple AdWords accounts linked to a single Google Analy…
Google In The News Box Now Global
Google’s new format for news in the web search results, named In The News that launched in early October, seems to now have launched internationally.
Kenichi Suzuki spotted it in Japan and posted the details on Google+…
Google Algorithm Chatter Heating Up, Shifts Happening?
Yesterday I reported how there was some weekend chatter about Google fluctuations.
Well that has really started to pick up as of last night. Many more webmasters are noticing lots of changes, some saying reversals…
Google Maps Red Circles Vs White Circles
Did you ever wonder why some of the circles representing businesses on Google Maps are white and some are red…
Apple Search? Apple Starts Crawling The Web?
Moesen noticed a new spider crawling through his HTML files on his web site and checked to see who this new spider was. The IP range seems to resolve to Apple’s servers, named APPLE-WWNET…
Chatter: Google Search Algorithm Changes Over The Weekend?
With the Thanksgiving shopping season around the corner, SEOs and Webmasters are scared Google is going to release something big that will potentially hurt their best sales period.
This weekend…
Google Quality Score Algorithm Update?
A couple savvy advertisers posted in WebmasterWorld that they noticed major changes to their quality score metrics for a nice number of keywords in mid-October…
Watch Matt Cutts Respond To If He Will Return To Google Search
Last night on episode 274 on This Week In Google, Matt Cutts was a guest. And he was able to talk about his announcement about extending his already long leave with Google.
Here is the video:
At around 9 minutes and 50 seconds into the video, they…