Bing Rises Above 17% Search Market Share As Google Slips [comScore]
Bing’s U.S. search market share has hit another all-time high, passing 17 percent for the first time. It gained at Google’s expense, as the search giant slipped six-tenths of a percentage point last month. That’s from comScore’s April 2013 qSearch report, just out today. For…
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“OK Google” — Hands-Free, Conversational Search Coming From Google
Google has allowed you to speak your search to it on the desktop and mobile devices for some time, but now it’s going to get smarter — talking back to you and continuing the conversation you started. Google shared details at its Google I/O 2013 developer event today and also in a blog…
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Sneak Preview of the New Google Maps
Google is rolling out a redesigned Google Maps. Here is what it will look like.
Post from Bas van den Beld on State of Search
Sneak Preview of the New Google Maps
Google Authority Boost: Google’s Algorithm To Determine Which Site Is A Subject Authority
Yesterday, we covered and summarized the ten future Google SEO changes coming to Google’s search results by the end of this summer. But today, I wanted to pull out one point where Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, said Google is working on an algorithm to give authorities in a…
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Google Penguin Evolved – Do we need to be concerned?
Pete Young takes a look at the future Penguin update and whether we need to be concerned. With Matt Cutt’s releasing a video on future things to come yesterday, it has given everyone more insight into what we could expect.
Post from Peter Young on State of Search
Google Penguin Evolved – Do we need to be concerned?
Google’s Latest Easter Egg Brings Atari Breakout Game To Image Search
Add this to the big list of Google easter eggs: do an image search for “atari breakout,” and you’ll be able to play the classic video game online, right in your search results. In fact, the image search results become the bricks that you have to eliminate as you play the game….
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Google Penguin to go to War with SENuke Style Link Building
With the prospect of the latest addition of Google Penguin to become a reality within the next few weeks, it seems that many SEO’s and site owners are speculating towards what could be included into the previous focus of the update in order to warrant the upcoming update being called a “new generation” of Google […]
My #PPC Test That Made Me Ship My Pants
By now, most of us had seen Kmart’s Ship My Pants video. If you haven’t, take the time to watch it before reading, as it’s a gem. (I’d rather you waste time watching that than reading the rest of this anyway.) It went viral shortly after launch and gained a lot of press, which triggered […]
Google Alerts Tip – Works Better If You Have a Time Machine
And in other breaking CitySearch news, Darren Waddell of RadiusIntel just sent me this awesome Google Alert he received this morning: It links to this article from 2007. For all of you marketers recommending that your clients use Google Alerts to monitor what people are saying, be sure to include that it works better if […]
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AdWords Ad Group Mobile Bid Adjustments Roll-Out Starts Today
Google announced that ad group-level mobile bid adjustments will start rolling out today and continue over the next couple of weeks in the Web UI. The added feature went live in the AdWords API last week. Like the elusive Keyword Planner that is rollin…
Enhanced Campaigns: New ‘Set Bid Adjustment’ Button Added For Bulk Edits
To make multiple bid adjustments for locations and dayparts without having to click into each target individually, Google has added a new “Set bid adjustments” button to the Web UI. The button is available when you are in the “All online campaigns” view, as well; so, you can…
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Yahoo Announces New Search Tools & Upgrades In Their Continued Battle To Win More Of The Search Market
Just a day after the story broke that Yahoo wanted out of their deal with Microsoft, Yahoo’s senior vice president of search Laurie Mann commented on new search tools and upgrades that are scheduled to launch over the coming months. According to an article in Bloomberg News, some of the…
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Why Vertical Search Is Threatening Google’s Reign
Until recently, Google has dominated search. It has been the main stomping ground for consumers looking to buy products, visit sites, or conduct research. However, the nature of search is changing, especially on mobile devices. My own search behavior i…
No, Publishership Isn’t Coming Soon To Google Search To Join Authorship
There are expectations in some quarters that publishers will soon be able to have their logos showing up in Google in the way that authors can have their pictures appear. But, Google says there are “no plans” for some type of “publishership” to go live similar to the way it…
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How to Use The Keyword Planner — The New Keyword Tool From Google AdWords
Last month, Google quietly began rolling out the AdWords Keyword Planner to select AdWords accounts last month. In typical AdWords fashion, one of the biggest overhauls of the Google Keyword Tool ever went almost unnoticed! This new keyword tool combines elements of two existing keyword…
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Best Practices for Google Analytics Profiles
Whether you’re an analytics newbie, nerd or ninja, it always helps to follow best practices when setting up new Google Analytics profiles. SEER’s best practices for all of our analytics setups include some tried-and-true methods to follow, which I’ll share with you below! To start – Why do I even need Profiles in Google Analytics? […]
Google Local Results Drops “More Results Near…” To “Improve” Local Search Experience
Google has quietly dropped yet another search feature, this one is related to local search results within a search on Google. Google has removed the “more results near…” link on local search results for queries with local intent. For example, if you search for [pizza] on…
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Google Ignites Controversy By Using “Palestine” On Homepage
Google has been at the center of heated geo-political controversy before, usually around disputed place names or borders on maps. A new controversy, however, has arisen about one of Google’s international homepages: Google.ps. That’s the page previously dedicated to the…
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More Proof Google Counts Press Release Links, Using Matt Cutts’s Own Blog
About six months ago, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, made a comment in a Google forum thread that links within press releases won’t “benefit your rankings.” Since then, we showed one case where Google not only discovers the links within typical press releases but…
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Google Search App With Google Now Breaks Into iTunes Top 10
When Google first released its updated Google Search app last October, it never made the iTunes top ten and, last week, wasn’t even in the top 100. But the addition of Google Now helped the app make the top ten in less than a week. Google relaunched its app last October with Siri-like voice…
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