Announcements at Google I/O last week include those by the Google Chrome Team about the availability of technologies in a session titled: “What’s new for The Web Platform.” It’s no coincidence that the two primary speakers of the session, Ben Galbraith & Dion Almaer, co-wrote a book about AJAX and Web 2.0 back in the…
Most of the Content Management Systems (CMSs) businesses use today were originally built for a single purpose — delivering content to a desktop web browser. Looking closer, WordPress — the open-source platform now used for everything from e-commerce to massive corporate sites and owning 65% of the CMS market (see the image below) — was…
Google News Showcase launched in October 2020 to offer paid licensing options to publishers. The Showcase is now available in the U.K., Australia, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Czechia and India. Google News Showcase is now available on desktop, according to an announcement from Alex Cox, Product Manager of News. “Now every user of Google News, regardless of what device they’re using, can see…
Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox daily. Good morning, Marketers, we saw a lot of announcements from Google…
The blue-check wave is coming. Twitter officially launched a new public-facing application for account verification Thursday. It’s not clear who will get to apply on day one, but Twitter says it will roll out globally over the next few weeks. Who does, and does not, get verified on Twitter has been the source of frequent…
Twitter is considering creating special account types for humor and satire accounts, a company representative let slip during a Wednesday press call about verification. While detailing the company’s already announced plan to create “automated” and “memorial” account types in an online presentation to reporters, Twitter product manager B Byrne offhandedly mentioned that the company wasn’t…
So, you want to get verified on Twitter. Fortunately for you, there’s now an official way to make that happen. On Thursday, Twitter announced that users can once again apply to receive that coveted blue check which has been the center of so much drama over the years. The process to do so is quite…
As the app market continues to grow, standing out in the app store is getting harder. New features announced by Google today aim to help app developers reach new users, understand data and insights to improve performance, and keep people coming back to the apps they love. App campaigns coming to desktop in June. Many…
Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox daily. Good morning, Marketers, and it’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). “The…
At Google I/O, John Mueller, Google Search Advocate, spoke about new video structured data that you can use to help your videos gain more visibility in Google Search. The new structured data is called Clip markup and Seek markup and they work to help Google create key moment video clips in Google Search. The announcement.…