search engine | 29 June 2019
Who’s poised to win the brewing v-commerce wars?While Google is an obvious “horse to bet on,” ubiquity, UX and utility will dominate the voice-search innovation race in 2020 and beyond. An old prediction that half of all internet searches […]
search engine | 25 September 2018
Baidu: Can the search giant hold firm in China’s increasingly competitive mobile market?Back in May, Search Engine Watch asked me to write a piece about alternatives to Google. This research was enlightening. It gave me another perspective on the search industry across the […]
search engine | 21 May 2018
No need for Google: 12 alternative search engines in 2018Working at Search Engine Watch isn’t all about studying, understanding, and reporting on Google. With more than 9% of web users searching on other engines, it’s important that we occasionally […]
search engine | 3 June 2016
What does Meeker’s Internet Trends report tell us about voice search?This week saw the publication of Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends report, packed full of data and insights into the development of the internet and digital technology across the globe. […]
search engine | 9 May 2016
Search marketing in China: the rise of so.comBaidu, the leading Chinese search engine, is the third most popular search engine in the world, despite being mostly concentrated in and around China. That speaks clearly to the immense […]
search engine | 26 October 2015
How to deal with content that competes for the same search termsSometimes we’re just too good at what we do. I find that ecommerce sites are usually more likely than marketing sites to have multiple URLs competing for a ranking […]
search engine | 26 August 2015
Structured Data Drives E-Commerce GrowthThe e-commerce industry is experiencing great shifts due to the evolution of ad units across platforms like Google, Amazon, Baidu, and Facebook. We’ve seen platforms like TripAdvisor, Pinterest and Polyvore […]
search engine | 17 July 2015
CPC Growth Is Down – But Not on SmartphonesThough display CPC growth is on a steady decline, the opposite is true when it comes to smartphones, according to Adobe’s new Digital Advertising Report. Composed of aggregated, anonymized […]
search engine | 8 July 2015
Baidu Follows Google and Abandons Organic Search Query Data in HTTPIn June, China’s biggest search engine Baidu officially announced organic search queries would be encrypted and no longer be carried in the http header. Google has long implemented a similar […]
search engine | 17 June 2015
Search in Asia Goes Well Beyond GoogleMarketers should consider the many local search engines and search methods evolving across Asia when developing their marketing strategies in this fragmented region. Today I’d like to look at two […]