Friday, October 30, 2020

Search Buzz Video Recap: Apple Search Rumors Again, Microsoft Bing Indexing Issues & Google Search Update

This week was less about Google and more about Microsoft Bing and even Apple. The Financial Times wrote an article that says what we have been covering for a while, Apple is working on a search engine - but maybe now it is almost ready to go live...

Search Revenues: Google 14% Increase & Microsoft Bing 10% Decrease

Microsoft (Bing) reported earnings on October 27th and Alphabet (Google) reported earnings on on October 29th. Microsoft said that its earnings on search, i.e. Bing, saw a 10% decrease year-over-year. Alphabet (Google) said its revenue was up 14% year-over-year.

Google Ads Report Editor Data Selection Panel Update & More

Google Ads has updated the Report Editor to make it easier build reports and analyze your data within the this tool. Here is the list of changes made to the Google Ads Report Editor.

Google Halloween Doodle: Momo The Cat Adventures

Halloween this year should be interesting, I suspect - not that I ever celebrated or did anything for Halloween (no joke). But I always enjoy the logos and themes from the search engines including the Google Doodles. The Google Doodle this year for Halloween features Momo the cat and friends with underwater adventures.

Google Ignores Capitalization In HTML

When you hand type HTML code, which I do in all these blog posts - yes, I am using something really old school but I like the control - sometimes you have typos in your HTML code. The most common typo I have is doing an a href tag but the A I capitalization because I need to press shift to trigger a < tag and right after that comes the A.