Archive for "Search Engine Land"

In what might seem to be just a cosmetic change to many, Google has replaced the title of its AdWords ads from “Sponsored links” to just “Ads.”

Here is an example of the change in a Google search:

No matter what it is called, this product continues to be the chief revenue source the search giant who advised they…

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Google has announced it will be offering an online clinic for US webmasters to provide advice that can be applied to websites.

The service will be provided via a US-based site clinic on Google’s Webmaster Central blog and is exclusively available for the non profit organizations only.

Google announced that its Search Quality team ‘will determine trends and…

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According to Microsoft “search is not just about the connections between data but also about the connection between people.” Now it appears that Google has taken a leap in the same direction.

Google is reportedly tapping into your social network search results (search results on Twitter, Google Buzz and other popular social networking sites) and integrating them into their own…

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It’s hard to believe that it was around 12 months ago that we released our post on the predictions for search in 2009. This year has flown past so quickly that now it is time for the predictions for 2010.

The experts have begun sharing their visions for 2010 and you probably won’t be surprised that the hot…

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Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, FriendFeed & Flickr are all pretty common names in the social networking world, but now social and search are about to combine thanks to Google.

At the Web 2.0 expo last week, Google’s Vice-President of Search Marissa Mayer surprised everyone with the announcement that Social Search is coming via Google Labs.

This new search feature will allow…

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