Archive for April, 2016
Microsoft's machine learning vision includes security, too
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talked a lot about machine learning during his keynote at Microsoft Build 2016, but neither he nor the executives on stage covered how machine learning can drive security applications. But don’t let its absence onstage fool…
The FBI's 10 most wanted cyber criminals
10 most wanted cybercriminals Image by FBI Technology brings a lot of good into the world, but with the good comes the bad. And, in this case, the bad is a new field of criminal activity: cybercrime. In fact, according…
SearchCap: Google local ranking, Bing ads analytics & more
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: Google local ranking, Bing ads analytics & more appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search…
Still hanging onto Bing Ads Campaign Analytics? Time to switch to UET
Only UET will be supported for conversion tracking by the end of June. The post Still hanging onto Bing Ads Campaign Analytics? Time to switch to UET appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the…
FBI takes heat for keeping iPhone hack details under wraps
The FBI doesn’t have to tell Apple how it cracked the iPhone 5c in the San Bernardino terrorism case, and now the American Civil Liberties Union is taking the agency to task. According to the Wall Street Journal, a White…
Report: search drives 10X more traffic to shopping sites than social media
Search is the single largest traffic driver to websites, according to SimilarWeb’s Global Search Marketing Report 2016. The findings are based on billions of site visits to a global sample of websites and reflect both mobile and desktop traffic. The…
Critics of DMCA takedowns flood Copyright Office with thousands of comments
Critics of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act have flooded the U.S. Copyright Office with tens of thousands of comments complaining about a process that often forces websites to kill user-generated content when faced with a copyright complaint. Before Thursday, the…
How to enhance your Google Knowledge Graph result (case study)
So your company finally has a Knowledge Graph panel appearing on branded searches, but the information is incomplete or incorrect — what can you do? Tony Edward explains a few ways to edit this information and shows how one method…
The rise of personal assistants and the death of the search box
Columnist Eric Enge recaps the SMX West 2016 keynote by Googler Behshad Behzadi, who envisions a not-too-distant future in which voice search becomes more ubiquitous — and may even replace the search box. The post The rise of personal assistants…
Search in Pics: Google firing squad, butterfly & Twitter jamming at Google
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more. Google…