Everyone using Facebook's mobile app has a mechanism for researching and checking into a place called Local Search (on iOS) and Nearby (on Android). Users can also rate places they checked into by using Nearby in their Facebook mobile app (now...
Enhanced campaigns improvements for Google+ and mobile apps – Inside AdWordsEnhanced campaigns now automatically include social annotation (number of Google+ followers) "when they can improve ad performance", if you have recent "high-quality...
Making your mobile search faster – Google Inside Search BlogGoogle adds expandable sitelinks, or "quick links" (essentially sitelinks within sitelinks), as well as an experimental blue "Quick view" badge that only works with Wikipedia pages.
Once you've analyzed and prioritized your keyword list, assigned them to the best pages (landing page, blog, mobile site, micro-site), you're ready to start building your first-class content. Google Places was recently replaced with Google+ Local...
While there is certainly a great deal of cross-over for local and mobile search updates from Google, its work on improving image search results is notable. Yet when analyzing Google's pervasive search quality highlight posts on its official Inside...
For all you diehard YouTube fans out there who can't get enough YouTube on your mobile, we've got some great news: starting today, you can download the official YouTube app for Iphone and Ipod touch from the App Store, bringing you more of the...
The support is well worth it for non-profits, she said, noting that, “.if we invest in mobile-friendly, optimized changes, we’ve found that the payoff is exponential. For more information or if you have questions, see Conductor's blog post on the...
Dai Pham and Adam Grunewald of Google's mobile ads marketing team said the figures underlined the new way in which users consume information. The use of mobile applications to keep track of the Olympics is also huge, with the chief information...
Official stats released in February showed the country has more than 1 billion mobile subscribers. This means Sina’s mobile website would be integrated into Baidu’s mobile web search services, including Sina’s iask (Aiwen) search box to retrieve...
A new mobile browser beta feature called Handwrite allows mobile and tablet users to “write” their search query into the browser, rather than typing on the keyboard when they’re on the go. Software engineer Rui Ueyama wrote of the new setting in an...
Recently, PCWorld had a mobile search face off between the search apps on Android, so it’s only fitting that the iPhone follows behind with one too – taking a look at features like multitasking, copy paste, voice search, making consistent phone...
What about conversions from click-to-call ads on mobile? The news was broken by Search Engine Watch contributor Melissa Mackey via Twitter and her blog. How did your extensions perform on Google Search versus Search Partners?
Fresher Images across result types”, mobile, and tablet, Google has adjusted the thumbnail sizes to rich snippet results for recipes and applications, movie posters, shopping results, book results, and news results, among others.
As of today, YouTube Mobile gets more than 400 million views a day, making m.youtube.com the No.video-viewing website in the world, second only to YouTube.com. YouTube Now Exceeds 200 Million Views a Day on Mobile
Google notes that users searching for entities such as celebrities and companies are often looking for entertainment and therefore Useful might suit a social networking page or blog that didn’t qualify as Vital.
A new Bing Deals for mobile and desktop began rolling out Friday, adding a more visual deal search experience with enhanced filtering by retailer, location, keywords, and categories, Bing announced. This won’t be a daily feature, just “when the...
I'm incredibly excited to collaborate with Zagat to bring the power of Google search and Google Maps to their products and users, and to bring their innovation, trusted reputation and wealth of experience to our users,” wrote Google VP Marissa...
Thus Google could be well placed to mop up some of that projected local ad spend in mobile markets. Traditionally ads are difficult to target to a social network but if we speculate on the ad targeting signals mobile data affords them, daily deals...
RSS, email newsletters, podcasts, and mobile apps provide direct options for users to get your latest blog updates. Note: Mobile users can't hover the Twitter icon to see the username in the URL. Improved blog/brand visibility in retweets
Launch a mobile business with The Guide to the App Galaxy - The Official Google BlogGoogle release guide to building a mobile app business and crowdsource stories from successful developers, like "of Angry Birds fame", Rovio.
