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Breaking up these companies will apparently be on the table. According to an exhaustive report issued yesterday by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook wield monopoly power over their respective markets. Produced after more than a year...

With Bing now at the center of Microsoft’s consumer monetization strategy, executives display a new level of confidence when sharing plans for growing the search business. “We’re all in on search” was the message from Rik van der Kooi, Microsoft’s Corporate VP of advertiser...

There are ways to leverage KonMari’s basic principles to improve SEO. But more importantly, what can she use to improve her own website’s organic performance? There is nothing like a Netflix original series to jettison someone to the front of everyone’s social feeds –...

2017 marked yet another eventful year for the SEM industry, and there was no shortage of great content to guide readers through it. See which topics were most popular with Search Engine Land’s PPC community in our top 10 paid search columns of the year. Though paid search...

Following concessions by Google, the EU looks ready to approve its acquisition of Fitbit. Google made headlines in November with its plans to purchase wearable company Fitbit for $2.1 billion. Despite the company’s promise to protect user privacy, the deal was immediately met...

The e-commerce giant’s DSP is capturing more budgets and accelerating over the course of the pandemic. Google’s U.S. ad revenues will fall this year for the first time since 2008, according to an eMarketer report. The estimated 5.3% decline will shave more than $2 billion off...

Two new Bing image search features let users compare product prices, get product recommendations based on favorited images. Just in time for the biggest shopping weekend of the year, Bing is rolling out a new image search feature that displays product prices, retailer info,...

A recent blog post from Google points to defining a paradigm on the SERP with what we now know as a core update. Occasionally, Google hits the keyboard and churns out a new post that explains what goes on behind the scenes. At times, these posts are meant to serve as general...

Mark Zuckerberg at F8, the Facebook developer conference held last week, exhorted people to “tell their life story” on Facebook via its new Timeline feature. Facebook also promoted new Open Graph apps integration and so-called “frictionless sharing.” But frictionless sharing is...

Can it be done? Can a new player compete with Google and Bing after many have tried and failed? Ahrefs, a popular SEO toolset provider platform, announced this morning on Twitter that they want to compete with Google by building their own search engine. I know April Fools Day is...