SMX Advanced: You&A Conversation With Matt Cutts (Pandas, Penguins & Payday...
Day one of our SMX Advanced show is almost over, but there’s one last session still to come: the traditional “You&A with Matt Cutts” keynote session. Search Engine Land’s founding editor, Danny...
View ArticleGoogle Search Engineer Defends SEO On Hacker News
Normally it is Googlers defending Google on Hacker News but Ryan Moulton, a software engineer at Google since 2006, who I think works on the Google search team, is defending SEO and the SEO business on...
View ArticleSpurred By PRISM Scandal, StartPage & Ixquick Surpass 3 Million Daily Searches
Alternative search engines are having a good week, likely thanks to public awareness and concern over data and privacy issues being raised by the PRISM scandal. StartPage and Ixquick, two small search...
View ArticleSearchCap: The Day In Search, June 14, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Spurred By PRISM Scandal, StartPage & Ixquick Surpass 3...
View ArticleDuckDuckGo Passes 3 Million Searches, Just 8 Days After Hitting 2 Million
Another week, another traffic record in the alternative search engine space. DuckDuckGo (DDG) ed this morning about its latest milestone: more than three million direct searches in a single day. As...
View ArticleDuck Duck Go’s Post-PRISM Growth Actually Proves No One Cares About “Private”...
Look out, Google! Duck Duck Go is on the rise, posting a 50% traffic increase in just eight days. Is this proof people want a “private” search engine, in the wake of allegations the PRISM program...
View ArticleSearchCap: The Day In Search, June 24, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Google AdWords New Top Movers Report Aims To Automate “What’s...
View ArticleEarly Look at Google’s June 25 Algo Update
If you follow our MozCast Google “weather” tracker, you may have noticed something unusual this morning – a record algorithm flux temperature of 113.3°F (the previous high was 102.2°, set on December...
View ArticleDuckDuckGo Launches New Search & Content App For iOS
DuckDuckGo (DDG) has launched a new iOS app called Search & Stories to go along with the Android app that’s been available since late 2011. The app offers many of the same features as DuckDuckGo’s...
View ArticleSearchCap: The Day In Search, June 27, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: DuckDuckGo Launches New Search & Content App For iOS...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Search
Hey Moz fans. Welcome to Whiteboard Friday. I’m not Rand. I’m Danny Sullivan, the founding editor of SearchEngineLand.com and MarketingLand.com. Because it’s 8,000 degrees here in Seattle, Rand has...
View ArticleStartPage, Ixquick Passed 4 Million Daily Searches On Monday
StartPage and Ixquick, sister search engines that offer private searching, announced that they surpassed four million daily direct searches on Monday. The announcement comes about three weeks after...
View ArticleSearch Engines Ixquick & StartPage Double Up On Security Measures With 2 New...
On the heels of the US PRISM scandal, private search engines Ixquick and its partner site StartPage are leveraging new encryption methods that offer higher levels of security beyond the standard SSL...
View ArticleSearchCap: The Day In Search, July 22, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Google Agrees To Settle Lawsuit Over Passing Search Queries To...
View ArticleDuck Duck Go’s Impact On The Current SEO Landscape and Its Future Trajectory
With recent headlines that the NSA has been profiling people’s online movements (the irony of saying this online isn’t lost on me), it’s very interesting to see how it has affected search engines....
View ArticleSearch Privacy Low On List Of Privacy Concerns For US Internet Users
Despite the fact that search history can be so revealing about people’s desires and interests, a new survey of US internet users finds that concern over search privacy — while significant — still ranks...
View ArticleContent Marketing World 2013 Wrap-Up by @monsieurharper
Content Marketing World was nothing short of sensational this year. We heard from a strong variety of marketing thought leaders who dropped the hammer on content thinking, provided actionable ideas...
View ArticlePost-PRISM, Google Confirms Quietly Moving To Make All Searches Secure,...
In the past month, Google quietly made a change aimed at encrypting all search activity — except for clicks on ads. Google says this has been done to provide “extra protection” for searchers, and the...
View ArticleSearchCap: The Day In Search, September 23, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Ads Gets Extended Validation SSL Ceritificates &...
View ArticleGoogle Not Provided 100% Of All Organic Search Queries
I assume by now, you’ve all seen the news that Google has secured ALL searches leading to all their organic search query referrer data to go completely 100% not provided. In fact, I checked this...
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