Bing Rolls Out International Hotel Booking Feature & Updates Mobile Search Results
Bing has partnered with TripAdvisor to deliver reviews, booking capabilities and rates for hotel searches in 22 different countries. Bing released two updates today, adding a new hotel booking feature in partnership with TripAdvisor, as well as updating its mobile search results to include details like deep links and time-stamps. Now when users search for a hotel […]
Google Search may be showing featured snippets less often
The tool providers are noticing a decline in the number of featured snippets showing up in the Google search results. Starting around February 18, 2021, Google seems to be showing fewer featured snippet results in the search results page. Most, if not all, of the tools that track the Google search results, are showing significant declines in […]
Senators Want High-Speed Internet Threshold Quadrupled
In a letter to several government agencies, a bipartisan group of senators is calling for the definition of “high-speed” internet to be quadrupled. Under former Chairman Ajit Pai, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) established 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload as the definition of high-speed internet. To matters worse, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) […]
Apple Now Supports Migrating iCloud Photos to Google Photos
Apple has launched a service to help users transfer a copy of their photos and videos from iCloud Photos to Google Photos. iCloud Photos and Google Photos are two of the biggest photo storage services, each the default storage mechanism for their respective mobile operating systems. With users switching back and forth between devices, the […]
Internal links: Link building’s secret sauce
Contributor Andrew Dennis explains why you shouldn’t overlook internal links on your site: They leverage link equity from external links and direct organic visitors to important, converting pages. I’ve been writing about link building for years now. On more than one occasion, I’ve had to dispel the idea that link acquisition has a magic button […]
SEM’s legit: Our top paid search columns of 2016
Expanded text ads, the removal of the right rail in SERPs, and many other changes dominated the PPC world this past year. Read on to see Search Engine Land’s most popular paid search columns of 2016. This was an eventful year for those in the paid search community as Google introduced some significant updates to the […]
Yahoo Search Back Online After 4+ Hour Outage; Bing Went Down Earlier Friday
Outage seems to have hit around 2:30 pm ET. Our headline has been changed to reflect that Yahoo’s search site began working again between 6-7 pm ET. For more information, see the updates at the end of the original article. Yahoo’s dedicated search site at search.yahoo.com remains offline at the moment, a couple hours after Bing suffered […]