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. China is now the world’s largest mobile market. This means Sina’s mobile website would be integrated into Baidu’s mobile web search services...
Software engineer Rui Ueyama wrote of the new setting in an Official Google Blog post: 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...
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...
In contrast, Bob Moog’s synthesizers produce beautiful, organic and rich sounds that are, nearly 50 years later, regarded by many professional musicians as the epitome of an electronic instrument," wrote Google Software Engineer Joey Hurst on the...
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. To date, Google has not released an official announcement.
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
However, even after Logastrod's account was deleted by Google, the rogue apps appeared elsewhere under the different name of Miriada Production, according to a blog post by Finnish security firm F-Secure.
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.
The number counts the "desktop client, mobile apps and the Google Earth plug-in. Google Earth has now been downloaded more than a billion times, according to the Official Google Blog. To create an idea of the number, the blog gave some numbers to...
This new feature eliminates the need to type in an address for either the origin or destination each time a user searches for directions from their mobile. Speaking of updated designs, those who check out the original announcement linked above will...
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...
