Google Lens an impressive start for ‘visual search’
While it makes lots of mistakes, it also gets lots of things right....
Greg Sterling
Greg Sterling is a Contributing Editor at Search Engine Land. He writes a personal blog, Screenwerk, about connecting the dots between digital media and real-world consumer behavior. He is also VP of Strategy and Insights for the Local Search Association. Follow him on Twitter or find him at Google+.
Yahoo parent sues Mozilla for replacing it with Google as Firefox default search
Mozilla countersues and says that poor Yahoo search quality caused Firefox to lose market share....
Apple launches ‘set it and forget it’ Search Ads Basic for the App Store
No keywords, no bidding with new simplified search product....
Google brings local lead generation to Google Assistant and Google Home
The company taps HomeAdvisor and Porch to provide local contractors through a multistep voice-driven interaction....
Google facing $1 billion in potential liability with UK class action
The case stems from bypassing the cookie-blocking settings on the iPhone's Safari browser in 2012....
Google will require AMP and canonical pages to match as of February 1, 2018
Though AMP isn't a ranking signal, non-compliant pages won't appear in Top Stories or other AMP-specific slots in search results....
Report: Smart speaker owners increasingly using them instead of typing or swiping
Survey respondents also showed openness to buying assistant devices from Facebook and other companies that don't currently offer them....
Google tries to bring more transparency to news content with help from The Trust Project
Google will display indicators to help distinguish between quality journalism and false information in search and elsewhere....
Google aims to make apps for Google Assistant more functional and discoverable
It also enables users to start a task on Google Home and complete it on a smartphone....
Google Maps gets brighter UI, new category icons and more color-coding
Changes designed to make it easier to find relevant content and...
Missouri Attorney General initiates Google antitrust investigation
Focus is on consumer data collection practices and alleged "search bias."...
Local ranking factors study finds reviews, organic SEO best practices boost local visibility
This is the second year of the LocalSEOGuide ranking factors study, performed in conjunction with UC Irvine....
Removal of hotel review reporting rape creates crisis of confidence for TripAdvisor content
The site had scrubbed first-person reviews and content about rape and sexual assault at a Mexican resort....
Survey: 79 percent of consumers believe they’ve seen fake local reviews
Almost 75 percent also said they had been asked to leave a review....
Yelp increasingly cracking down on ‘review solicitation’ across the internet
The company wants to stop the practice of asking for customer reviews on its site, and third-party sites as well....
US court orders Google not to comply with Canadian court’s order delisting search results
The US court agreed with Google that implementation of the Canadian court's ruling would violate US laws, including the right to free speech....
Web.com buys Acquisio for machine learning, PPC management capabilities
Acquisio's platform takes a machine learning-supported approach to paid search...
Yext announces conversational ‘Knowledge Assistant’ for local data management
The company is also adding structured markup for events and events data syndication....
Amazon Q3 ad revenues surpass $1 billion, up roughly 2x from early 2016
Amazon's CFO said that advertising revenue is growing "very quickly."...
Facebook third-party partnerships bring huge trove of used car listings to Marketplace
Hundreds of thousands of used cars now available as part of content expansion. ...