Video: Matt Cutts, former head of Google web spam, on his days at Google, current work at US Digital Services

An old industry colleague and friend in the White House is working to improve government websites — and is hiring.

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Google’s Ben Gomes expands role to head all of search amid leadership shuffle

Role previously held by John Giannandrea being split into two between Jeff Dean and Ben Gomes The post Google’s Ben Gomes expands role to head all of search amid leadership shuffle appeared first on Search Engine Land.

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Get inside your customer’s head: A guide to writing irresistible calls to action

Contributor Jacob Baadsgaard looks at common search motivations and different types of calls to action you can use to motivate people so they can’t help but click. The post Get inside your customer’s head: A guide to writing irresistible calls to action appeared first on Search Engine Land.

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Initial Interest Confusion rears its ugly head once more in trademark infringement case

Columnist Chris Silver Smith details recent trademark infringement cases in which site search results pages caused legal issues for retailer sites. E-commerce businesses should take notice! The post Initial Interest Confusion rears its ugly head once more in trademark infringement case appeared…

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Initial Interest Confusion rears its ugly head once more in trademark infringement case

Columnist Chris Silver Smith details recent trademark infringement cases in which site search results pages caused legal issues for retailer sites. E-commerce businesses should take notice! The post Initial Interest Confusion rears its ugly head once more in trademark infringement case appeared…

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Search in Pics: Google cigar box guitar, branded airplane head covers & a skateboard

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 cigar box guitar: Source: Instagram Google Cloud umbrella: Source:…

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Pinterest hires head of Google senior image search engineer Randy Keller

Hire comes at a time when Pinterest is ramping up “visual discovery” tools. The post Pinterest hires head of Google senior image search engineer Randy Keller appeared first on Search Engine Land.

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