How Google Identifies Individual Passages of a Web Page
Google’s public Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, shares more detail about an upcoming change that will improve 7% of global queries.
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.
Google’s public Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, shares more detail about an upcoming change that will improve 7% of global queries.
Google responds to allegations from the United States Department of Justice that it’s maintaining an illegal monopoly over search and search advertising.
Microsoft is launching a Bing search app for Xbox One, which offers some unique hardware integrations for gamers.
With the relaunch of Site Explorer, Bing Webmaster Tools is gaining a new experience not offered by Google Search Console.
Google reveals what are the most popular Halloween costumes this year, according to trending search data in the United States.
Yahoo Groups is completing the final stage of shutting down on December 15, 2020, at which time it will be fully removed from the web.
Google’s live busyness information is expanding to cover more types of places, and becoming a prominent feature of Google Maps.
In the latest Google Lightning Talks video, Martin Splitt shares tips for making single page apps discoverable by search engines.
Google is disabling the “Request Indexing” feature of the URL Inspection tool.
Google Analytics is receiving a significant update with 4 new features designed to improve marketing decisions and get better ROI.
A report from Bloomberg indicates Google is in the early stages of transforming YouTube into a shopping site.
A change which is set to roll out on October 24 will break embedded Facebook and Instagram content on WordPress sites.
Google Assistant on Android is receiving an update which allows it to open and search within Android apps using voice commands.
LinkedIn lists ‘digital marketing specialist’ among the top 10 most in-demand jobs, with SEO being one of the most desired skills.
Social media managers can now become Facebook certified through an official online program and enhance their credentials with an industry-recognized badge.
Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, explains in a new blog post how autocomplete predictions are generated.
Google My Business is working on a new feature that will allow businesses to see recent customer calls triggered from search results.
Google Web Stories are now prominently featured in the Discover section of the Google app, which reaches over 800 million people per month.
Twitter users will soon be able to crop their own image previews and have greater control over how photos appear in the main feed.
Google My Business is giving business owners more data to work with in a series of updates to performance reports.
Bing is now known as ‘Microsoft Bing’ after rolling out several changes which include new colors and a new logo.
Facebook is making public groups easier to join and discover by surfacing relevant discussions in users’ news feeds.
Google is shining a spotlight on journalism in ‘News Showcase,’ an all-new experience coming soon to search results.
Instagram is launching a mini-site full of new resources created to help small businesses get the most out of Instagram Shops.
Facebook is bringing the best of Messenger to Instagram DMs which will allow users on both platforms to seamlessly connect with each other.
Google is making shopping ads free in more countries following the rollout of free shopping ads in the US earlier this year.
A lawsuit is expected to be launched against Google by the US Justice Department according to a report from Reuters.
Google’s new small business holiday hub is full of resources marketers can use to prepare for the busiest shopping season of the year.
A Pew Research Center study finds about a quarter of US adults get news from YouTube, including a mix of independent and established organizations.
All rich results in Google SERPs are not created equal – at least not when it comes to click-through rate – a new study finds.