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Google Love Grows, Bing Satisfaction Drops Among U.S. Customers [Survey]
Love it or hate it, Google is loved by customers. Bing? No so much? And Yahoo, the love is pretty much gone. That's according to 70,000 users who were surveyed as part of the 2014 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI)E-Business Report.
Google Showing Far Less Video Snippets in Search Results
If you use rich snippets to markup your videos, you may want to double check that Google is still showing them. Reports indicate a huge reduction – with estimates as high as 44 percent – in the number of video snippets from Google's search results.
New robots.txt Tester Launches in Google Webmaster Tools
The robots.txt testing tool in Google Webmaster Tools has just received an update to highlight errors causing Google not to crawl pages on your website, let you edit your file, test if URLs are blocked, and also view older robots.txt file versions.
Google AdWords Express App Now Available
Google has launched a new app for AdWords Express, the product designed to simplify search advertising for small businesses. In addition, Google is giving those advertisers better geotargeting to let them choose where their ads appear.
Google to Remove Author Images from Search Results
Google's John Mueller announced on Google+ today that Google will cease showing author profile images and Google+ circle counts in desktop and mobile search results. This global change will roll out over the next few days.
Google Payday Loans Algorithm Update Launch is Imminent
Less than a month after announcing a significant update to its algorithm targeting spammy queries such as payday loans, Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts announced yesterday at SMX Advanced that another update will launch this week.
Doodle 4 Google 2014 Winner Invents Water Purifier to Make the World a Better Place
Eleven-year-old Audrey Zhang of New York is the winner of the seventh annual U.S. Doodle 4 Google competition. She directed a team of Doodlers as they created the first animated Doodle in the history of the children's logo design competition.
Search Engine Strategies Coming to Atlanta in July, Registration Now Open
The original search marketing conference is back! On July 9, Search Engine Strategies will relaunch in Atlanta. The one-day conference will cover all the critical aspects of search engine optimization (SEO) and paid search advertising (PPC).
Amazon’s 4 Pillars of Success: A Preview of Jeffrey Eisenberg’s Pubcon SFIMA Keynote
By being customer-centric, continuously optimizing and innovating, and creating an agile corporation, Amazon.com dominates the competition. Jeffrey Eisenberg explains how it became so successful and how marketers can grow and succeed like Amazon.
Search Ad Revenues Hit $18.4 Billion in 2013 [Report]
Search ad revenues continued to rise in 2013. The record-breaking revenues last year totaled $18.4 billion, accounting for 43 percent of all Internet revenue, compared to $16.9 billion and 46 percent in 2012, according to the latest IAB report.
