My, how the young grow up fast. I remember seeing DuckDuckGo first appear in the search engine news when it was still a fledgling search engine, and now it’s grown up so big. Yesterday, DuckDuckGo announced that a milestone was hit. The search engine has managed to hit the 10 million daily query mark on June 22, […]
According to every professional, blog post and everybody in between, we know that in order to bring in potential customers to your business website, you need to get as many links out there as possible. But for the last few years, we’ve been told by Google themselves that as marketers, we have got to stop focusing […]
When you think of image search, typically, you think of going on to a search engine, such as Google, and type in a text query to get a series of images based on what you searched for. But have you ever thought about reverse image search? For those who isn’t sure what that is, reverse […]
Who is the latest company to purchase Nokia’s mapping unit HERE? That company would be Uber. According to the NY Times, Uber was reported to have submitted a $3 billion bid for the mapping provider. At this point, that amount hasn’t been confirmed. Assuming that Uber can obtain HERE, this will be the second successful mapping acquisition […]
Search engines are a wondrous place. They give us all the information we could ever dream of. Just put in what ever query you want, and search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, and others will hand you pages of search results that have link after link of sites related to your query. But, has there […]
As you probably already well know, Google is going to be rolling out a major update that determines if your website is mobile friendly on April 21st. This update will be big enough to potentially do some damage to your search rankings if your site isn’t mobile friendly. Google has even said that this update […]
It’s pretty evident that Google is dominating in a number of places across the world that has access to the internet. The search company has a global search market share of 54.7 percent in 2014. Around the end of December last year, Google appeared on China’s ban list. Many of Google’s properties became unusable since most people […]
Back in February, there was news that Google and Twitter had reached an agreement that will provide Google full access to Twitter’s stream. As stated in the previous post written by Search Engine Land, the Twitter stream is commonly called the “firehose”, and was announced during Twitter’s earnings call by the CEO of Twitter, Dick Costolo. […]
Zomato, the international restaurant search provider, has picked up and acquired Urbanspoon from IAC, costing them somewhere between $50 and $60 million in cash. So what is Zomato? Zomato is an online service that provides information on home delivery, dining-out, cafes and nightlife in cities of India and 18 other countries. The service was founded […]
It’s been announced by a Google spokesperson that the Penguin algorithm will be updated continuously, by optimizing it as they go. A Google spokesperson released the following statement to Search Engine Land after being asked questions about the holiday Penguin updates. “That last big update is still rolling out — though really there won’t be a particularly distinct […]