Search Engine Land’s Community Corner: Dixon Jones retiring from Majestic, UK Search Awards winners & how to speak at SMX

This week’s roundup of news, announcements and events happening throughout the search marketing industry includes: Industry veteran and Majestic SEO CMO Dixon Jones announced he’ll be retiring from Majestic in November 2018, and will move into Global Brand Ambassador role at Majestic until that time. He’s been a key member of the search community since…

How the Google Pigeon Update Changed Local Search Results by @searchmastergen

Editor’s note: This post is part of an ongoing series looking back at the history of Google algorithm updates. Enjoy! One of Google’s biggest-impact algorithm updates was implemented for the sake of local search results, and local businesses typically saw the effects of the update in their website’s analytics data. Google users certainly saw the impact,…

SearchCap: Yahoo sues Mozilla, Google Lens review & celebs help Google

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Recent Headlines From Marketing Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing: Search News From Around The Web: Gain a deeper understanding of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder on Google, Google Blog All…

Google Lens an impressive start for ‘visual search’

Google Lens has gone live or is about to on Pixel phones in the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, India and Singapore (in English). Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been using it extensively and have had mostly positive results — though not always. Currently, Lens can read text (e.g., business cards), identify buildings…

How the Google Hummingbird Update Changed Search by @beaupedraza

Editor’s note: This post is part of an ongoing series looking back at the history of Google algorithm updates. Enjoy! Since the fall of 2013, Google Hummingbird has been leaving its imprint on search results for billions of queries and providing end users with another small step toward a more intimate, personal search engine results page.…