Archive for the ‘Search Engines’ Category

Bing Testing Navigation Usability with Alternate SERP Format

Yesterday, while I was researching our WebRanking Profile in Bing Webmaster Tools, I was served the following alternate header and top navigation format for Bing’s search engine results pages.

The Bing Challenge Daily Journal: Week 1 Search Results

Day 1: Notable Spidering & Indexing Frequency Issues – Tuesday, March 1st Today being the first day of The Bing Challenge was a busy one with client meetings in Downtown Minneapolis, an hour long webinar on landing page conversion testing, and first of the month client SEM reporting and analysis. Being busy was good because […]

The Bing Challenge: 31 Days of Google Free Search. Can It Be Done?

It’s been almost 2 years since Bing launched in June of 2009. Yea, I know. TWO YEARS. Like many other search engine marketers I waited… and waited… and waited… and continued to wait and wonder if Microsoft’s new engine was going to stick around, or if it was destined to fade away with the likes […]

Google Celebrates PAC-MAN’s 30th Anniversary with an Interactive Video Game Logo

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 marks the 30 year anniversary of when the Pac-Man video game was released. To celebrate this phenominal interactive computing milestone, Google has changed their homepage logo to an interactive one that you can play the Pacman game live, online and right from Google.com. Pretty Cool!  Watch a video of me wasting […]

Google Officially Launches New Logo and Search Page Layout

 It’s official! Google has officially launched their new search engine result pages (SERPs) format and also an updated and cleaner looking logo. We first noticed Google testing their new SERPs format back in April. Since then we have been left to wonder if and when the new search page layout would go live ad if […]

Google Testing New Format in Search Engine Result Pages?

 Kudos to Paul Kragthorpe for spotting what is either a Good Friday (long weekend) test or a limited/controlled release of a new format for Google’s search engine result pages (SERP’s).   Always a clever one to notice similarities, Paul remarks seem to be on point:

How To Google Search Like a Pirate! (only for use on International Talk Like a Pirate Day;-}

Ahoy, me Hearties! September 19th is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. In honor of this bloody great day I thought I would let ye landlubbers all in on how ye too can search like the pirates do. An I no just talk’n bout the 7 seas mind ye! To find the Pirate Search ya’ll […]