Thanks, Google, for making searches a little sweeter. I wasn't able to experience that in my searches. Experimenting with searches reveals much. Google unveiled conversational search at Google I/O last week, and began rolling it out on the latest...
Google also announced another feature that allows users to visualize Hot Searches, which basically covers typed queries in a colorful wrapper. Google points out the difference between data in Hot Searches and Top Charts in the Trends help center:
A user doing searches on the train or late at night may interact differently with your site than the same person on his work machine during the day. When Google announced Enhanced Campaigns they said that mobile device bids would now be controlled...
Of the 20 billion searches conducted in April, Google led with 13.3 billion, followed by Bing at 3.5 billion, Yahoo at 2.4 billion, Ask at 539 million, and AOL with 290 million. Google's search market share dropped slightly once again, with...
A data analysis of the search results for queries containing 500 of the world's top tech writers' names using Conductor's Searchlight enterprise SEO platform (disclosure: I work for Conductor) – shows that Google is surfacing Google+ accounts for...
The platform generates the fingerprint of the install and then searches for clicks with the matching fingerprint. source=facebook, and visitors from Google to http://www.example.com/resources/? For example, you can run a Promoted Tweets on Twitter...
The ruling goes on to say that Google itself is not liable for violating rights, but that it has not taken precautions to prevent data generated by searches that violate rights. In a ruling this week, a German federal court said Google must...
The company says that the current proposal fails to correct Google searches relevance for showing its own services in results. UK price comparison firm Foundem has rejected Google's proposed web search concessions.
The "levels", which are just different Google Images searches, seem to be pretty much the same difficulty level. After completing the first screen, you'll be taken to random image searches – for example, after destroying the Atari images, up next...
If you're doing deep searches in Google, and going back 5, 6 or more results pages deep, you can see the same site popping up with a cluster of results on those deep pages. The latest Google Webmaster video features Distinguished Engineer Matt...
If you're targeting users for country-specific searches, this info can be extremely valuable. While Google and Bing's tools are good for giving you an idea of what those engines see as your backlinks, you'll probably be better off using a more...
Google's Mobile Search Moments research reported that 73 percent of mobile searches trigger additional action and conversions. Now with Google AdWords enhanced campaigns heading down the track like a freight train, it's time to reevaluate how you...
The All Products ad group allows you to list all of your products, so they are available for Google searches (e.g.long tail) when you're bidding low on the All Products ad group. Google Shopping has been around long enough that various merchant...
Wanted to rank number one on searches for Viagra? As the SEO rumor mill spun this week with murmurs of the arrival of yet another significant Google update, I began to think back on all this year's changes and then back to all the algorithm changes...
Even Google noted last year that 65 percent of online searches began on a smartphone. Also, these users have very specific long-tail searches, making predictive-search capabilities extremely important.
As you can guess, if someone searches for "restaurants in Princeton new jersey", then it's advantageous to be located in Princeton, New Jersey. When performing local searches in Graph Search, Facebook surfaces places that my friends and connections...
The challenge now includes trending searches to get you started, in an attempt to show that that they, too, have up-to-date trends. It's interesting to note that Bing has added the phrase "for the web's top searches" when talking about how people...
Searches Mobile searches are increasing as smartphones become more broadly available with falling device prices. Google has released many products and services over the last few years to improve the way people search and find information.
Google’s New Multiscreen World study, published last summer, showed similar stats when it came to how mobile plays into searches online. The data showed a majority – 65 percent – of online searches began on a smartphone.
For such searches, they only showed four results when they thought it was relevant – including instant answers or block (onebox-like results). Google has experimented with seven results on many SERPs since last summer.
