To Avoid Liability, Google Limits German News Content To Headlines
German news and magazine publishers are determined, one way or another, to get Google to pay them for their content. They’re not upset about the content appearing in Google News or search. They want it to appear – they just want Google to pay for it. Google doesn’t want to pay….
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SMX East 2014 Day Two Live Blog Coverage
Day two of Search Marketing Expo East is now complete and below is some of the live blog coverage we found throughout the day. BuzzFeed Founder Jonah @Peretti Talks SEO, Social at #SMX, BruceClay.com #SMX Liveblog: 25 Examples of Structured Data You Ca…
SMX East 2014 Day One Live Blog Coverage
Day one of Search Marketing Expo East is now complete and below is some of the live blog coverage we found throughout the day. #SMX East Liveblog: Making Moments Matter, BruceClay.com #SMX Evening Forum with Danny Sullivan, BruceClay.com #SMX Blog: The…
Udi Manber Moves To YouTube As Head Of Search
Udi Manber, a longtime Google search executive, has been shifted over to YouTube where he’ll lead search efforts on Google’s super-popular video sharing/viewing website. The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal in an article about executive changes at YouTube. A Google…
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World War II, Communisim Subtext In Right To Be Forgotten
From an American legal perspective the recently established European Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF) is a disaster. It’s a confusing, vague, impractical and possibly even dangerous decision. But from a European historical perspective it makes considerable sense. The different histories of the US…
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Last Call – SMX East Starts Next Tuesday in NYC; All Access Conference and Free Expo+ Passes Available
Search Engine Land’s – SMX East conference begins next Tuesday in New York City. Register now to reserve your spot! The search marketing landscape changes almost daily, but your goals don’t. You strive to increase traffic, improve conversions and maximize your ROI. Invest in attending…
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EU Antitrust Endgame Looking More Murky, Risky For Google
The Wall Street Journal added more color to the unfolding story of the collapse of the Google-European Commission antitrust settlement. Notwithstanding denials by outgoing competition czar Joaquín Almunia, it’s clear that pressure from major European publishers, rivals and politicians…
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Google Market Share: 67 Percent On PC, 83 Percent In Mobile
Last week comScore released its August US search market share rankings report. It appears Google has permanently plateaued at 67 percent (or so). In Europe Google’s share is above 90 percent, which is why all the antitrust activity. Back in the US, Microsoft and Yahoo combined for 29 percent,…
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China Blocks DuckDuckGo, The Privacy Search Engine
China has blocked DuckDuckGo, the privacy search engine, that recently made big news when Apple added them as a default search option to iOS and their upcoming desktop operating system. The Founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo, Gabriel Weinberg, confirmed tha…
SMX East Starts Next Tuesday – Here’s How to Attend
Search Engine Land’s – SMX East kicks off next Tuesday – September 30 – in New York City. With over 60 educational sessions and keynotes, networking activities and presentations from leading providers, you’ll get the SEO, SEM and internet marketing tactics and solutions you need…
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Cortana Coming To Windows 9, Will It Replace Bing?
Next week in San Francisco, Microsoft will unveil Windows 9 for the press. Among the features of the new OS is reportedly going to be the mobile virtual assistant Cortana. A range of sites are repeating some early evidence found by a German site and also a discussion on Neowin that assert Cortana…
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Search In Pics: Darth Vader Painting, Staircase Bobsledding & Google Family Hackathon
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. GoogleBot Stock In The Woods: Source: Google+ Google Family Hackathon Day:…
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Bing Correctly Predicts “No” Win In Scotland Independence Vote
A few days ago, we reported that Bing predicted on September 15th that the vote for Scotland’s independence would be a “No” with a 52.5% vote for NO and a 47.5% vote for YES. The final results are now in and it was a 55% vote for No, so Bing’s prediction was correct and very…
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Covario To Be Acquired By Dentsu Aegis Network, Rio SEO To Remain Independent
Covario, one of the very large search marketing agencies in the US with over 220* employees, has announced they will be acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network. Dentsu Aegis Network is a multinational media and digital marketing communications company headqua…
Live @ SMX East: Competitive Research For Search Marketers
One of the harsh realities of being a search marketer is that you can become incredibly skilled at your job, technically adept and a master of all of the nuances of SEO or SEM, and still struggle to get the kind of results you hope for. Why? Because yo…
German Official: Google Should Reveal Its Ranking Algorithm
One of the unanswered questions in the ongoing European-Google antitrust saga is what concrete changes or concessions critics want (or will accept) from Google. One of those things may have just come to light in a Financial Times interview with German justice minister Heiko Maas. Maas asserts in…
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Update: BrightLocal Clarifies Its Local SEO Industry Survey Findings
Last week, after reporting on BrightLocal’s recent local SEO industry survey, some readers were skeptical about the survey’s findings, specifically that 37 percent of local SEOs were earning less than $30,000 in “revenue turnover.” While some commenters questioned the…
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Publishers To EC: We Want More From Google Or We’ll Sue
As we discussed last week, the current Europe-Google antitrust settlement is dead. This is a surprising turn of events considering that it was once described by European regulators as essentially a done deal. Outgoing European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia confirmed last week in a talk…
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2 Weeks to Register for the World’s Largest Search Engine Marketing Conference – SMX East in NYC!
Search Engine Land’s SMX East returns to New York City in just two weeks! Here all that’s in store: Actionable, Up-to-date Search Marketing Tactics: Have your search rankings been impacted by endless algorithm changes? Mobile making you retool your entire digital marketing program? Can…
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Search In Pics: GoogleBot Chained Up, Android Statue Reorganization & Community Manager Dance
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Google Community Managers Dance: Source: Google+ Google Hat: Source:…
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