Search Engine Journal:
Google’s been integrating its product feed into the main SERPs under the guise of universal search for a while now, with the aim of improving the user experience. Now don’t get me wrong I have nothing against the universal shopping results, but in the current format do they really improve the user experience?Well that (Read More)
Search Engine Journal:
Andy Beal tweeted yesterday how he saw an interesting find. Google displaying THREE subpages in the SERPs. For as long as I can recall, Google had a rule that they wouldn’t ever display more than two pages out of fairness.So when I read Andy’s tweet, I went right to Google and sure enough, I found the same thing. but onl (Read More)
Search Engine Journal:
So you appear to do everything right: you have a fair amount of unique content and you seem to update your site regularly and Google seems to often visit your site… but there appear to be much fewer links in Google’s index than there are actually on your site.So what may that mean? 1. Are there really few pages in Google’s (Read More)
Official Google Blog:
This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label "Google Apps highlights" and subscribe to the series. - Ed.Over the last two weeks, we've made improvements across Google Apps, some geared for individuals, others meant for business customers.Green Robot icon in G (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
After announcements from Google and Bing about incorporating Twitter into their search results, Yahoo! is throwing hopping on the real-time results news bandwagon. Yahoo!'s Twitter integration is part of a new update when the News Shortcut is implemented in the search results.Yahoo! is also recognizing when there's breaking (Read More)
Search Engine Journal:
Twitter has just activated its GeoLocation feature which will let you opt-in whether you want your tweets to be tagged with your current location. The feature is carried not on your Twitter.com account but on third-party Twitter apps which will use the Geolocation API released by Twitter.If you’re using Twitter apps such (Read More)
Search Engine Journal:
Yahoo just made its first step towards making search results more fresh and social with contents from news sources, photos, videos and most importantly Twitter. Yes, you read it right – Twitter. So starting today, when you do a search on Yahoo for the latest news you can see the news, photos, videos and Twitter tabs on top (Read More)
Search Engine Journal:
As soon as Google goes official with the Chrome OS, every tech people I know jumped into it. Each with his own comments, impressions and ideas on what was made available by Google so far. You’ve read about our earlier report as well as Google’s own announcement. Now here’s what other bright minds in the tech world have to s (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
YouTube is introducing machine-generated automatic captioning to YouTube. The captions can also be translated. This obviously has incredible implications for the hearing-impaired and language translation. But it also has great implications for search.Automatic captions will be generated using Google's automated speech recog (Read More)
Search Engine Journal:
“To all the girls I’ve loved beforeWho travelled in and out my doorI’m glad they came alongI dedicate this song…” Willie Nelson / Julio IglesiasHaving gone to search conferences for 4 years now, I feel that I’m pretty well-dialed into the peculiar networking / social dynamic that surrounds each well-attended show. Be (Read More)
Sphinn: Hot Topics:
There are literally thousands of SEO tools out there. Some paid, some free, some good and some not so good. There is one tool that is often overlooked when it comes to SEO, yes, search engine optimisation, and that’s AdWords. While most people see AdWords as simply a paid traffic generation tool, many fail to realize the or (Read More)
Official Google Blog:
We're both huge foodies, and we always love spending time in the kitchen with friends and family, especially around the holidays. Particularly during this season, many of us turn to Google when searching for recipes. But, in addition to spicing up your recipe repertoire, Google can be a huge resource in the kitchen. From he (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
AdGooroo is launching a new academic program that provides free resources to educators wishing to teach their students about search marketing. The program provides free academic licenses to AdGooroo's SEM Insight."Supporting the academic community is a top priority for AdGooroo, and we're offering them free access to SEM In (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
iPerceptions has launched a new integrated web analytics solution called A&B Interactive Dashboard. The tool is designed to draw out behavioral and attitudinal data to provide marketers a clearer idea of what's drawing conversions and why. It's compatible with web analytics programs such as Google Analytics, Omniture, Corem (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation are investigating loyalty programs from companies including Vertrue, Webloyalty, and Affinion that generated $1.4 billion with credit card information given to them by their marketing partners - which include Yahoo - without the knowledge of most of the custo (Read More)