Earlier this year, Google Suggest finally made it to the Google home page. The feature suggests queries as you begin typing in the search box. Now Google is testing providing links to web sites, direct answers and even ads that appear within the Google Suggest list.
Not everyone will see these…
Google is testing a number of changes to its search results, including a way for select publishers to enhance their page descriptions, a way for searchers to jump to sub-sections of a web page and automatically correcting misspelled queries, to some degree.
Enhanced Listings
The most dramatic…
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Search In Pictures: Yahoo’s Party, Google Slackers & Purple Power In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from…
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.
Yahoo’s Year End Party (kind of sad, knowing the layoffs):
A Googler…
We have a recurring argument with clients. See if this sounds familiar:
Us: You have no search visibility for “keyword”
Client: We don’t want visibility for “keyword”
Us: Why?
Client: Because that’s not us. We don’t use “keyword” to describe…
The Live Search Blog announced they are letting a new robot loose. The new search engine crawler is named msnbot/2.0b and will be added to the army of current MSN spiders, currently named msnbot/1.1.
The new spider is currently being tested but will ultimately replace the old spider. The new…
Google announced they have or will be improving the API controls for both Webmaster Tools and AdWords. API access gives developers a way to communicate with Google through a structured coding format, in short, it can help automate functions that are done through the standard Google interfaces.
The…
On the heels of the tragic terrorist attacks in Mumbai last month, legal advocates in India are asking the country’s High Court to demand that Google blur sensitive locations on Google Earth.
The Times reports that the Indian petition says Google Earth “aids terrorists in plotting…
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Google Expands AdSense For Domains - Enough AlreadyThe Google AdSense Blog announced they have begun rolling out the AdSense for Domain product to US based…
The Google AdSense Blog announced they have begun rolling out the AdSense for Domain product to US based publishers and will continue to roll this feature out to all publishers in the future. AdSense for Domains allows publishers to place ads on domains that have not yet been developed yet, also…