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For retail advertisers, Shopping ads continue to overshadow text ads
Fourth-quarter reports from Marin and Merkle highlight the importance of Shopping ads for merchants' search advertising strategies....
Merkle Q4 2017: Search ad click growth fell, ad spend rose 23% across Google, Bing, Yahoo
Bing and Yahoo saw search ad spend jump 32 percent over prior year in Q4 among Merkle's client base. Google spend growth slowed slightly from...
Google now handles at least 2 trillion searches per year
The search giant won't say exactly how many trillions of queries it processes, other than it's now two or more. It last claimed 1.2 trillion in...
10 big changes with search engines over my 20 years of covering them
Search Engine Land founding editor Danny Sullivan looks at how search has changed over the two decades he's been writing about...
US Paid Search Ad Spend Growth Slows To 12%, In Part Due To A Still-Nascent Yahoo Gemini
Seasonality and advertisers' reluctance to put budgets toward Gemini due to limited capabilities suppressed overall growth, report finds....
Yes, Steve Scalise, There Was A Google In 2002
US House of Representatives majority whip says Google not being "available" in 2002 prevented vetting his speaking to group of white...
Yahoo Directory Closes, Five Days Early
The core service that launched Yahoo as an internet company -- the Yahoo Directory -- finally closes 20 years after it...
Using The Past To Predict The Future For Local Search
What does local SEO have in store for us? Columnist Myles Anderson takes a look at how local ranking factors have changed over...
The Yahoo Directory — Once The Internet’s Most Important Search Engine — Is To Close
For some, it may seem like there has always been Google, and it’s always been the main way people have found things on the web. But before...
At Five Years Old, Bing Has Come Far Yet Has More To Grow
Microsoft’s Bing search engine has turned five this week. There are good reasons for some birthday celebrations at Microsoft. The company...
Paid Search Spend Rises 8 Percent In Q1, Mobile Shows Signs Of Maturing [Report]
In the first quarter this year, U.S. search advertising spend rose 8 percent when compared both quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) and year-over-year...
The Top 7 Milestones Of Google Search
I think that I can confidently say that anyone reading this post has an intimate relationship with Google. After all, it’s one of the most...
You Probably Think This Search Is About You: Survey Says 56% Of Internet Users “Google” Themselves
To mark Google’s 15th birthday, the PEW Research Center released a survey conducted between April and May of this year to evaluate the...
For Google’s 15th Birthday, Search “Google In 1998” For A Flashback
Google turns 15 this week — celebrating its official birthday on Friday. But it already is gearing up for the celebrations with a special...
AltaVista Officially Closes — What Will Pawnee Do!
We mourned the closing of AltaVista when it was announced at the end of last month. But today’s the day it actually closed. No more...
A Eulogy For AltaVista, The Google Of Its Time
Goodbye AltaVista. You deserved better than this. Better than the one-sentence send-off Yahoo gave you today, when announcing your July 8...
Which Finds The First-Ever Website Better, Google Or Bing?
For the 20th anniversary of CERN making Web technology available to anyone royalty-free, the European science lab has restored the very first...
The Google Dance Is Back
Vets in the SEO space remember the “Google Dance,” how search results used to jump around on a monthly basis as Google rolled out...
IAB & PwC: Search Still Tops Online Ad Revenues, And Share Grew In 2011
Through online advertising’s ups and downs, search — because of its orientation toward performance — has always been a...
How Blunders And Myopia Helped Fuel Google’s Rise To Dominance
As Google co-founder Larry Page takes the helm as Google CEO today, it’s interesting to look back at some of the seminal events that...