Call for entries: The 2017 Search Engine Land Awards

The 3rd annual competition for the highest honors in search marketing is now open for entries! Entry period closes July 31, 2017. Get started gathering your client data and preparing your materials for submission today.

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The future of local discovery

Columnist Brian Smith discusses some of the recent developments and technology that will impact local search, both in the short term and the long term.

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Part 2 of 2: How Google learns to guide purchasing decisions

In a follow-up to his last article, columnist Dave Davies explores a Google patent on guided purchasing, which describes how smartphone behaviors and user data could be used to predict and direct purchase behavior.

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Twiggle offers plug-and-play semantic search to online retailers

Company says its sophisticated search can be implemented without replacement of existing enterprise search.

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Google makes it easier to see and share publishers’ real URLs from AMP pages

New anchor button enables copy-and-paste of URLs directly to publisher sites.

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How machine learning impacts the need for quality content

As Google continues to invest in machine learning technology to help it better understand and parse user queries, columnist Eric Enge emphasizes the need for marketers to continuously improve content quality and user satisfaction.

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Where’s Santa Claus? Your 2016 guide to Santa trackers from NORAD & Google

Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus … but where exactly is he? Our guide to Santa trackers helps you locate Jolly St. Nick in a flash.

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Google will change AMP display to make it easier to find & share publishers’ direct URLs

Change will be to the header in AMP content, expected in early 2017.

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Move over Amazon Echo & Google Home: Here comes Microsoft Cortana

Cortana will be baked into a new smart speaker from Harman Kardon to be released next year, potentially the first of many Cortana-powered devices.

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How and why the SEO tools industry should develop technical standards

Could SEO benefit from a collaborative effort to establish industry standards for SEO software? Contributor Michael King discusses the value this would have — as well as the challenges it would present.

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How Google may be slowing down AMP by not using direct links to publishers

What’s in a name? When it comes to AMP, a URL that’s not the publisher’s may not smell as sweet.

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Google Home bests Amazon Echo & Alexa, for answering questions

If you’ve always wanted someone around the house to answer all the questions you have during the course of your day, that someone is a something — Google Home.

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