With holiday 2016 approaching, retailers need a mobile wallet strategy ASAP
Most retailers are gearing up for holiday sales, and that means many will be seeking to drive mobile app downloads. Most of them will...
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After 4 months & 125M+ pages indexed, where are we with AMP?
From left to right: Googler Adam Greenberg, Condé Nast’s John Shehata, Vox Media’s Elite Truong, and Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan....
Will the end of Samsung’s Galaxy Note boost sales of Google’s Pixel?
In what appears to be an unprecedented move in the industry, Samsung has halted production of its troubled Galaxy Note 7. The device was...
Report: on average day, nearly 40 percent of searchers use only smartphones
ouh_desire / Shutterstock.com Google released new “cross device” research that provides more evidence of what we already know: a...
Google and Progressive Web Apps: the mobile experience and SEO
Kashin / Shutterstock.com As mobile usage increases and companies develop mobile-friendly sites to ensure the optimal user experience,...
What you need to know about the state of mobile advertising
10 Mobile Statistics Marketers Will Love,” I called out the explosive growth of mobile usage. Of particular note is the fact that there...
How mobile has changed the way we search, based on 10+ years of eye-tracking studies
Chris Pinkerton, the vice president of business development at Mediative, has been tracking the ways viewers look at the Google search...
Google opens the AMP fire hose
Google’s expansion of Accelerated Mobile Pages across mobile search results is underway, gradually turning the trickle of AMP traffic to...
Google debuts new Pixel phone, Google Home & Google Assistant
Google unveiled its new Google Pixel phone today and began taking orders for its previously announced Google Home hands-free home...
With Google Home looming, Amazon launches 100+ spots in new Alexa ad campaign
Amazon is making a push to sell more of its Alexa-enabled devices with “Alexa Moments,” a new ad campaign that launched today and will...
Report: Apple may be six months from launching an Echo-like Siri assistant
A second report, from Bloomberg, says that Apple is developing an Amazon Echo-like stand alone virtual assistant based on Siri. That...
Is mobile SEO obsolete?
first started writing for Search Engine Land, President Barack Obama was just starting his first term in office, Lady Gaga was showing...
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) burst into Google search results
Google told us in August that Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) would be entering the main mobile search results. That happened earlier this...
Allo: Google again moves deck chairs on its sinking Titanic in the messaging wars
Hey! Google has a new messaging app out today called Allo. Pity I can’t send you a text message about it. Allo can’t handle that, not...
Allo: chat with a big helping of Google search
During the Google I/O developer event earlier this summer, the company announced its “smart messaging app,” Allo. At the time it sounded...
Google Trips: Google’s first potentially breakthrough travel tool
Google bought travel software company ITA in 2010 promising to bring travel searchers next-generation travel tools and experiences. Then...
Can the app-retention crisis be addressed with personalized notifications?
A new comScore mobile report reflects that almost 60 percent of digital media time is now spent in apps (tablet, smartphone). That makes...
Google updates Universal App Campaign targeting, touts 3 billion app installs from ads
Kashin / Shutterstock.com A sort of V2 of Google’s Universal App Campaigns — one campaign that can reach users across the Google...
Google’s AMP Viewer: the Tinder UX for content?
Users swipe through content from multiple publishers in Google’s Top Stories AMP viewer. By now most publishers should be aware of...
Apple introduces jackless iPhone 7 with improved camera, and waterproof Watch
People are focused on the fact that there’s no headphone jack on the new iPhone. But while that’s grabbing attention, Apple introduced a...
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