New research suggests when information gathering really matters, users turn to search engines. For many years people have been proclaiming the demise of traditional search traffic and the death of the SEO industry that supports it. While Google has posted…
Mobile search revenue grew to $13.5B, desktop search was $9.3B. According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), U.S. digital ad revenues reached $49.5 billion in the first half of 2018, an all time high. Last year revenues were $40.3 billion.…
Advertisers can leverage the data across text ads, shopping and most Bing search products available in the U.S. Advertisers are now able to leverage LinkedIn data for search campaigns on the Bing Ads platform. Microsoft made the announcement in a…
Yesterday, Google announced a major upcoming change to its mobile ranking algorithm. In a short blog post entitled ‘Using page speed in mobile search ranking’, it explained that starting in July 2018, page speed will officially be a ranking factor…
Internet pioneer Barry Diller says that the Internet revolution is still really young. He also says that this truly radical revolution is right now a very troubled revolution. Barry Diller, Chairman and Senior Executive of IAC and Expedia, Inc., recently reflected…
Google announced on its Analytics blog and at SMX East the launch of some intriguing updates to its Analytics platform. Notably a free version of Optimize 360 and a new metric, Session Quality Score. Optimize: what is it? Optimize 360…
Welcome to the fourth in my series on alternatives to Google. It follows my piece No need for Google back in May and my in-depth reports on Ecosia, DuckDuckGo and Baidu. Today we turn to Yandex. Since we last covered…
For several years, the search term ‘payday loans’ has regularly attracted more than 200,000 searches per month on Google.co.uk. Whether providing loans or generating leads, the payday loans industry has notoriously been big business and at its peak, was estimated…
When Google’s Search Quality Senior Strategist Andrey Lipattsev was asked about Google’s most important ranking factors, he gave three: content, links, and RankBrain. We’ve known for a long time that links impact websites’ search rankings and Google has for a…
“The thing about human resources that I’ve noticed is that I think we are really approaching the time where the end of business as usual is happening and human resources and business follows as a consequence,” noted Gerd Leonhard, Futurist and Author…
