Search Engine Land

MARCH 5, 2023

More ‘shoppable ads’ coming to Google Images 2019: The sponsored images highlighted products that, when moused over, revealed brand, price and other details. Google May Discontinue Its AJAX Crawlable Guidelines 2015: Gary Illyes indicated Google would be decommissioning its guidelines. What’s The Most Searched Thing On Google?

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

5 takeaways from Google’s Q4 2018 earnings for search marketers 2019: Google executives discussed search experience, campaign, device and performance updates. Official: Twitter To Give Google Access To “Firehose” Of Tweets 2015: Twitter confirmed that it had a deal again to supply Google with access to its full stream of tweets.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 15, 2023

Google To Launch New Doorway Page Penalty Algorithm 2015: Google announced they were releasing a new “ranking adjustment” to their doorway page classifier to better handle doorway pages in the search results. Too Much SEO?

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Google’s Search Impact Report Goes Live For Select Few Webmasters 2015: Google released the alpha version of their new search queries report in Google Webmaster Tools to a small number of Webmasters for feedback and testing. Billion 2015: After buying Travelocity the previous month, Expedia grabbed Orbitz in competitive bidding.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 12, 2023

Part of his visit included a 89-page slide presentation, called “Search Integrity,” at Google’s Washington, D.C. Cutts said the same thing that Google had been telling the search marketing community for years – that Google’s results are determined by an algorithm and not tweaked to get particular sites ranking well.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 8, 2023

2015: Google finally seemed ready to launch its long-anticipated comparison site for car insurance. Report: Yahoo Search Losing Firefox Users Who “Switchback” To Google. 2015: An analysis showed a gradual but continual losses back to Google, and Yahoo’s share of Firefox 34 clicks dropped from 43% (Dec. 10) to about 36 percent.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Google denied manipulating ad auctions at SMX Advanced 2015 – eight years before admitting it actually does. During the conference’s keynote speech, Google Ad executive Jerry Dischler told the audience: “Full stop, we are not manipulating search results or manipulating the ad auction in order to increase profits.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 1, 2023

Yahoo Celebrates Its 20th Birthday By Setting New World Record For Yodeling , published March 3, 2015 (“Yahoo turned 20 yesterday…” i.e., March 2 ) Well, on March 2, 2005, Yahoo celebrated its 10th birthday by giving away a free scoop of Baskin-Robbins ice cream. Google Testing Single Line Sitelinks?

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Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Search marketers have long speculated that Google intentionally complicates SEO to boost ad sales revenue. Despite denials from Google search leaders like John Mueller, this email exchange seems to indicate otherwise, indicating potential unfair impacts on SEO campaign performance. Why we care. More tweaks. SUBSCRIBE See terms.

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Martech

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Google search dominance Search engine competitors and claims of harm Google’s default search deals Additional legal issues Potentially anticompetitive conduct Google’s defence Dig deeper: Why we care about search marketing Google search dominance Google credits its 90% market share to being a superior platform (Sept.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 14, 2023

It sought to answer what people were searching for at a given moment, why they were searching for it, and how to differentiate it from similar but different things. Get the daily newsletter search marketers rely on. With the right moves, it will be a very affordable entry price for additional profit.

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Moz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Price attributes. In my sampling, Google only had a price attribute for 42% of the top-ranked grocery stores. In my sampling, Google only had a price attribute for 42% of the top-ranked grocery stores. Of that number, 76% were marked with the moderate “$$” price attribute. Google Posts usage before and during COVID-19.

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Rock Content

APRIL 30, 2020

Even YouTube and Pinterest can be thought of as search engines since they’re often used to discover content. But Google is the clear category leader, with almost 92% of the search market share. Each search engine has its own methodology and ranking criteria. How do search engines work? Transactional. Informational.

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Rock Content

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Voice search, which, by some estimates, will account for half of all searches by 2020, is still somewhat new – Alexa, after all, didn’t come out until 2015 – and so optimization tips remain somewhat limited. Lisa Lacy is a senior reporter for The Drum, where she covers the digital and search marketing industries.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Google Testing A Red “Slow” Label In The Search Results For Slower Sites 2015: The slow label would indicate if a particular webpage was slow and warn the user before clicking over to the site that it may load slowly.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 27, 2023

Google Now Supports Crawling & Indexing Locale-Adaptive Web Pages 2015: Google added support for webpages that dynamically changed their content based on IP origin or language settings. Google Formally Introduces “Clickable Phone Numbers” In Mobile Search Ads 2010: It was a call for the price of a click on mobile handsets.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

An additional ad (so, four instead of three) would appear above Google’s organic search results for what it called “highly commercial queries.” This was actually the culmination of a test that began in 2010 and ramped up significantly in 2015 , mostly outside of the U.S.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Read all about it in How Google uses artificial intelligence In Google Search. Also on this day Google will suspend merchant sites that show higher prices at checkout 2021: Starting on April 6, Google would begin enforcing price accuracy between Merchant Center feeds and checkout. wealth rather than merit).

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Google Search Console adds review snippets performance, enhancement and testing reports 2020: Google added an enhancements report, a performance report and added support for review snippets on the rich result testing tool. After Nine Years, Google’s Udi Manber Moves On 2015: Manber was VP of Engineering at YouTube. Ah, Google FIber!

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 11, 2023

Google Local Pack Displaying Logos In Web Search Results 2015: Google was testing a new local pack in the web search results that displayed maps plus logos and pictures of the business listing. Google Improves Image Search For iPhone & Android 2009: You could see up to 20 images on a single page.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Google’s John Mueller: Try to avoid link building In 2015, Google’s John Mueller was asked on a Google+ hangout “is link building in any way good?” Yandex reports 22% YoY increase in revenue for Q4 2016 2017: Russia’s largest search engine generated $364.7 share of the country’s search market.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 18, 2023

Google Sending Mobile Usability Warnings To Huge Number Of Webmasters 2015: These notifications warned there were critical mobile usability errors on 100% of the pages on the site and thus the pages would be “displayed and ranked appropriately for smartphone users.” Yahoo Search Testing Google’s Search Results Design?

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 8, 2023

Destinations on Google delivers new travel planning experience for mobile users 2016: A mobile search for a continent, country or state, along with the word “destination” or “vacation,” would return a series of travel options.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Google Showing Colorful Line Separators In Mobile Search Results Snippets 2015: Many mobile searchers on iOS and Android were noticing Google testing a new mobile interface. Search Suggestions The Default At Google China? Opinions expressed in these articles are those of the author and not necessarily Search Engine Land.

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