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Bing and Big Think are hosting”Farsight 2011: Beyond the Search Box,” a four hour event today in San Francisco looking at the future of search. We’ve got various luminaries lined-up. Google will be on a panel. There’s that whole Google says Bing is copying them thing that just...

The Shops section shows three to ten retailers based on their organic search rankings. Google has launched a “Shops” section in the mobile search results, a company spokesperson has confirmed to Search Engine Land. The Shops section shows three retailers (but can be expanded to...

The new all-in-one tool will be free for at least a year, the company says. Facebook wants to help small businesses (SMBs) survive the COVID crisis — and make money. A few months ago, the company announced $100M in cash grants and ad credits for SMBs. It later introduced Facebook...

Despite facing a still-raging pandemic and a slew of updates, SEOs rose to the challenge. Here’s our recap of the year’s most important SEO stories and news. In 2021, SEOs faced a flurry of Google updates (including the highly anticipated yet possibly-overhyped Page Experience...

Advertisers may see more mobile impressions and a lower CTR on Search, Shopping, and Local Ads. Google announced that mobile users will now have continuous scroll in search results. This means that instead of coming upon a “See More” button after about ten results, searchers will...

Blackberry is warning users that services for its legacy BlackBerry OS devices is ending January 4, 2022. BlackBerry was once king among smartphones, before the iPhone hit the scene. Between iOS and Android, Blackberry quickly lost market share. The company’s homegrown BlackBerry...

AT&T has agreed to sell its ad marketplace, Xandr, to Microsoft as the ad industry tries to adapt to a post-cookie world. The ad industry has been working to cope with changes to online advertising, including initiatives to replace the web browser cookies that have formed the...

One of Bing’s differentiating strategies is to offer increasingly rich information on the first page of search results: “instant answers.” (Of course Google and Yahoo try to do similar things.) In the context of autos, for example, Bing provides a great deal of information about...

Google Business Profiles now let’s you mark a product as special to pop it to the top. Google Business Profile, formerly Google My Business, has a new feature in the products section that lets you mark a product as “special.” After you mark a product as special, that...

“This is the first time the Feed environment would be managed though controls,” company says. Facebook announced today that it will begin testing news feed topic exclusions for advertisers this year. Citing advertisers’ brand safety concerns, Facebook says the new...