Pinterest Search Gets Smarter, Delivers Results Based on Gender
There’s nothing worse than searching for a new pair of kicks on Pinterest, and having to sift through pins of high heels when you really...
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Matt G. Southern, Senior News Writer, has been with Search Engine Journal since 2013. With a bachelor’s degree in communications, Matt specializes in gathering details, checking facts, and making complex subjects easy to understand. In addition to writing articles, Matt oversees strategy development for SEJ’s news department.
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Social Media Makes Up Nearly A Third Of All Referral Traffic, + More Stats
Social software company Shareaholic argues that the shift from search to social is here with the release of a new set of data that reveals...
Matt Cutts Speaks On Lessons Learned From Early Days Of Google: Full Highlights
You may remember a post a couple of weeks ago announcing that Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, would be giving a speech at...
Twitter Teams Up With Bing To Offer Translated Tweets
Twitter announced today it is bringing back project it terminated in 2013, which is the ability for users to view tweets in multiple languages. Now...
Google Campaigns To Get Firefox Users To Change Default Search Provider
Is Google threatened by Yahoo’s recent gains in search market share? A report was released just yesterday detailing how Yahoo is slowing eroding Google’s search...
Twitter To Show Tweets You Missed ‘While You Were Away’
Twitter announced today that its introducing a new feature on everyone’s home timeline where you’ll be shown an overview of popular tweets you may have...
Yahoo Gains 1.6% Search Market Share From Google, According To Latest comScore Data
Yahoo’s desktop search market share has been steadily growing in the months following the company’s deal with Firefox, which saw Yahoo become the browser’s new...
Outtakes from Pubcon Las Vegas 2014 [VIDEO]
While digging through our archive of Pubcon 2014 footage, we found some interesting clips that didn’t make it into the final cut. Please enjoy. #Bloopers #Pubcon #Outtakes
Facebook To Clean Up News Feed Spam By Showing Fewer Hoaxes
Facebook announced today it’s launching an update to its news feed algorithm designed to reduce the appearance of hoaxes. This includes scams, as well as...
Google Is A More Trusted Source Of News Than Traditional Media [REPORT]
For the first time in history, search engines are considered the most trusted source of news an general information, even being trusted over traditional publications...
Google Issues Warnings About Poor Search Rankings For Non-Mobile Sites
Google has been making strides to improve mobile search results to make the SERPS a better place for users searching on smartphones and tablets. One...
Google Officially Stops Sales Of Google Glass
The Google Glass experiment as we know it is coming to a close, as reports surface that the company will no longer be selling the...
Save the Date for #SEJSummit Chicago: April 15, 2015
I am thrilled to announce the date and venue for our third event in the conference series SEJ Summit “3Takeaways”, presented by Searchmetrics. The inaugural one-day conference for enterprise marketers...
Google Releases New Update To Structured Data Site Testing Tool
Structured data can give you that edge you need when it comes to getting content discovered and clicked on in search results, and other Google...
Mark Zuckerberg On The Future Of Social Media, + More From Q&A
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg held another public Q&A yesterday and discussed, among other topics, what he believes the future looks like for social networking. An...
#SEJSummit Santa Monica: More Spots Opened
SEJ Summit Santa Monica is right around the corner and we have exciting news — one hundred additional spots just opened up! Initially we were limited...
Facebook Introduces ‘Work’, A Social Tool For Businessess and Employees
Though we may try to hide it, it’s no secret that we browse Facebook at work. Now the social network wants to make it so...
New Google Translate App, Featuring Instant Voice Translation, Coming to iOS and Android
Just days ago it was reported that Google was working on a fairly major update to its Translate app. It has now been confirmed that...
Google’s Domain Registration Service Now Open To All US Residents
Google’s domain registration service, launched in public beta this past June, is now open to all US residents. When first launched, the service was only...
MTV Increased Mobile Traffic By 92% With A Responsive Redesign [REPORT]
Not every major brand has jumped on the responsive design bandwagon yet — take MTV for example. MTV recently redesigned several of its web properties...
LinkedIn Revamps Its Search Engine For Speed And Relevance
LinkedIn announced its team has been working to reengineer its search engine to help users find what they’re looking for faster. The company claims that...
Google Is Reportedly Working On A Real-Time Translation App For Mobile Devices
One month after Microsoft announced its real-time translation service for Skype, reports are emerging that Google intends to announce plans to update it’s translation app...
Instagram The Fastest Growing Social Network, Facebook The Most Engaged, + More Stats
New data from Pew Research Internet Project finds that while Facebook is still the most popular social media site, Instagram is by far the fastest growing....
Are Your Video Ads Actually Being Seen? Google Will Soon Report On Video Ad Viewability
Google will soon let advertisers and publishers know whether or not their video ads delivered via the DoubleClick ad services are actually being watched by...
LinkedIn Expands Its Blogging Tool To English Speaking Users Outside The US
LinkedIn’s publishing platform, previously only accessible to US users, has now been rolled out to more than 130 million English-speaking users outside of the United...
Facebook Video Views Are Up 94% In The US, 75% Worldwide
Video on Facebook is growing at an alarmingly rapid pace. Last year alone video views on the world’s leading social network grew by 94% in...
Reddit Makes A Couple Of Premium Features Available To All Users
Two popular features that Reddit Gold users enjoy will now be available to all users, VentureBeat reports. All Reddit users will now receive a notification...
Matt Cutts Update: Head Of Web Spam To Speak About Early Days At Google
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of web spam, has remained relatively low key since taking his leave of absence. Cutts is back in the headlines this...
The Best New Features Of Google AdWords Editor Version 11
Google’s AdWords Editor 11 is said to be the biggest update since the tool first launched in 2006. With such an extensive update new features...
Google Received 75% More Link Takedown Requests From Copyright Holders Last Year
TorrentFreak took the liberty of processing all of Google’s weekly transparency reports from last year to find that the company fielded more link takedown requests...