It’s been a while since search was limited to text on a computer screen. Nowadays, your target audience doesn’t even have to type a query to get results. Search is often voice-activated, happening across mobile and Internet of Things devices, like smart home speakers. Search is powering intelligent agents that are …

Google appears to be rolling out an overhaul of AdWords Keyword Planner in the new AdWords interface. The workflows in the new Keywords Planner are much more streamlined than the current/old version, and it uses Google’s Material Design, matching the new AdWords interface. The best indication of this new approach …

Did you know that a truly comprehensive retirement calculator can do A LOT more than answer the questions most of us know to ask: When you can retire? How much you need to retire? Are you likely to run out of money? There is so much more to retirement planning …

An ambitious LiDAR (light detection and ranging) survey of forested areas in Guatemala has revealed more than 60,000 previously undetected ancient structures, including isolated houses, large palaces, ceremonial centers, and stone pyramids. The ancient Maya city of Tikal in Guatemala. Image credit: Comenius University. LiDAR technology is able to pierce …

By using cryo-electron tomography, an international team of scientists has identified a completely new nanostructure — named the Tail Axoneme Intra-Lumenal Spiral (TAILS) — inside human spermatozoon tails. The human spermatozoon tail is a highly complex machine that consists of around a thousand different types of building blocks. Image credit: …

In preparation for this year’s Search Engine Land Awards, we spent some time redesigning the Agency of the Year categories with the help of returning judges from our partner Clutch: Ilse Heine, a Business Analyst leading the SEO and SEM segments and Grayson Kemper, a Senior Content Developer, who leads SEO and …

According to a report from 9to5Google, Google is releasing new beta features for its Gboard for Android, making it possible for users to search all media from the Google-designed keyboard. “Alongside specific keyboards for emoji, stickers, and GIFs, there is a new interface that can search all categories. It is …

Reviews are an essential part of doing business online. They heavily influence consumer buying and local rankings. But as Joy Hawkins points out, using rewards or other incentives to help generate them is a bad idea. A law firm in Louisville, Kentucky, Winton Hiestand Law Group, had the vast majority of …

Excited yet? I am, but alas, it hasn’t rolled out to the public as of this writing. The amp-story component is still in “experimental” and development mode, and it must be enabled for the user within the AMP Dev Channel in order to get started. A select group of pre-approved publishers — …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google to move more sites to mobile-first index in coming weeksFeb 21, 2018 by Barry Schwartz Google plans to roll more sites into the mobile-first index …