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Category: Search

Creating Demand for Products, Services, and Ideas that Have Little to No Existing Search Volume – Whiteboard Friday

When it comes to search volume, there are websites that seem to have all the luck.  There are websites that are often visited due to the high demand for specific search queries and keywords.  But there are also a boat load of websites that deliver a variety of things (products, services and ideas to name […]

Yahoo Aviate Adds New Smart Stream But Still Needs Breakout Features

There is a brand new feature upgrade to grace Yahoo’s Android launcher and smart assistant Aviate, and it is called “Smart Stream.”  The purpose of this new upgrade is to be a personally relevant and context-aware content feeder that gives you personalized content throughout the day. Now Aviate assembles relevant information front and center so you can […]

DuckDuckGo Adds Auto Search Suggest To 34 New International Regions

It’s been announced by DuckDuckGothat they have expanded their search auto-suggestions, (otherwise known as autocomplete) to 34 new international regions.  The intent of auto suggest is to help users find the appropriate query as they are typing.  Auto complete provides common search queries in real time as they begin typing. If you’re a DuckDuckGo user, and you’re […]

Is This Google’s Twitter Integration Into The Search Results?

It’s nice to more information finally coming out about the Twitter/Google integration that involves Tweets being placed into Google’s search results for trending topics.  A screen shot was shared with Search Engine Land this morning by Dan Martin from Razorfish that looks like a possible test by Google displaying Twitter content within the search results. According […]

Facebook’s Hello App Another Incremental Step Toward Local Search

Yesterday, Facebook announced Hello, a new dialer/caller ID app hat offers local business search, which was a step towards offering a local search product to the masses. You can also search for people and businesses on Facebook and call them with just one tap. So if a friend tells you about a new restaurant in your […]

Is Yahoo Testing Non-Bing Powered Search Results?

There is a report by Business Insider that says they’re seeing Yahoo’s mobile search results without the “powered by Bing” logo in the footer of the search results page. If you’re normal Bing user, you probably know that if you do a search in Yahoo, whether it’s the desktop or mobile versions, you’ll see a message that […]

Yahoo Loses Market Share As Some Firefox Users Return To Google

comScore has released the February US search market share numbers and it looks like some of the gains that Yahoo made since November since their default search deal with Firefox has been lost.  This is because some of the users that went over to Firefox has since decided to return to Google.  In all honestly, I’m not shocked by […]

Google Is Practically Begging Firefox Users To Switch Their Default Search Engine

Come on Google.  You’ve got to have more pride than that.  After all, you’re the biggest search engine on the block, so get up off your knees and stop making a scene. I am asking Google to have a little respect for itself because Google has put a big, new message above its organic search […]

What’s The Most Searched Thing On Google? Turns Out It’s “Google”

Gary Illyes of Google revealed yesterday during the “how to Secure Your Site for Google’s HTTPS Algorithm” SMX West session that the most Googled term ever is “Google” itself. So, why do people Google the term “Google” so much on its own search engine?  Typically, as Illyes put it, people do this to find login pages for […]

Google Tests Search Results Listings Without Descriptions

It seems Google has been testing something new, or it could simply be a Google bug, but which ever it is, Gianluca Fiorelii has spotted something.  It seems as if Google has removed the descriptions from the search results listing page.  When you check out the results page, all you see are clickable titles and […]