Category Archives: Digital Marketing

As you know, Yahoo is planning a come back to search with a new way of thinking about Yahoo Search. What that means, we don’t know yet, but we do know Yahoo is thinking hard about how they can compete. Greg Sterling ran a Twitter poll asking if Yahoo has a shot at it, andContinueContinue reading “Survey Says Most Think Yahoo Won’t Be Able To Compete In Search”

Google has confirmed that its latest efforts to filter out local reviews against its policies and guidelines went too far. Google, over the next few weeks, is working to restore the policy-abiding reviews that were removed by its automated systems as false positives.Google said, “In the last few weeks, our protections took down more thanContinueContinue reading “Google Local Review Filters Removed Many Legit Reviews, Google Restoring Reviews”

Google is testing a new design for the mobile search result snippets. Google is boxing in the snippet, the description text, of a specific listing in a gray-shaded curved box.This somewhat reminds me of the early featured snippet perspectives design but now this is for a normal search result snippet.Saad AK spotted this and postedContinueContinue reading “Google Tests Gray Boxed Snippets In Search Mobile”

Last night I reported on Search Engine Land, based on the Google earnings report and earnings call, that Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai has confirmed the search company will release a chat based search feature based on its own AI, LaMDA, in the coming weeks and months. Plus, there is a big new search event thisContinueContinue reading “Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai Confirms New Chat Based Search Feature Coming Really Soon”

Google has updated its search help documentation around canonicalization this morning. The Google Search Relations team split in three distinct sections and updated a lot of the content to provide clearer details around how Google Search and canonicalization works.The three sections include:What is canonicalizationHow to specify a canonical with rel=”canonical” and other methodsFix canonicalization issuesAllContinueContinue reading “Google Does Major Refresh Of The Canonicalization Help Documentation”