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Doubling down on voice Between the many Google Home and Google Assistant announcements, it’s clear that marketers need to shift content creation strategies to focus not only on natural conversational language, but also the context of the conversation query — from which device and the time/location of a query. Joe …

At Tuesday’s Google Marketing Next event, Google announced more integrations for AMP for Display and Search advertisers. For search advertisers, Google is launching a beta to serve AMP-enabled landing pages on mobile from Search ads. After users click a search ad from mobile, the ad will direct to the AMP landing …

Bots are coming to Bing in a big way. Through its Bot Framework, Microsoft is starting to integrate chatbots into search results — to make search more interactive and transactional. In April, Matt McGee spotted the appearance of chat functionality for selected Seattle-area restaurants. That is now rolling out officially (still …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing launches bots for local businessesMay 22, 2017 by Greg Sterling Bots are created automatically from data in Bing Places and will soon work with Facebook …

I’ve been spending a lot of time on the road, speaking at conferences and talking to marketers and business owners, and I’ve been having the “content” talk far too often lately. You know, the one that’s almost as awkward as sitting down with your kids to talk about the birds …

Today’s Google doodle honors American Indian rights activist Richard Oakes. The illustration spotlights Oakes among three US locations that impacted his life — the Akwesasne reservation on the Canada-New York border where Oakes grew up; Alcatraz Island where he organized his most powerful protest; and Pit River, where he helped …

Why are we still having this discussion? Because data show that a surprising number of businesses still don’t have a website. Surveys from as recently as October 2016 find that close to half of all small businesses don’t have a website, and it’s not just solo work-from-home moonlighters, either. Specifically, …

A new consumer survey from Nielsen, commissioned by Yelp, argues that review sites drive higher conversions than search and social media. The survey of 2,000 US adults found that 92 percent of respondents said they made a purchase after visiting Yelp, “at least sometimes, frequently or almost always.” At the highest level, …

The Google news was fast and furious last week, with numerous announcements coming from its annual developers’ conference, Google I/O 2017. The latest episode of our Marketing Land Live podcast offers a look back at some of the bigger announcements that will impact online marketers. Much of the focus was …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Remarketing: The best-kept marketing secretMay 19, 2017 by Michelle Cruz Everything you need to know about an opportunity that’s not widely discussed in the industry …