SearchCap: Google Trends, AdWords URLs & Direct Answers

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: Google Trends, AdWords URLs & Direct Answers appeared first on Search Engine Land.

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What Happened To Dinosaurs? Google’s Direct Answer Gives Non-Scientific Theory From Religious Site

Google search query on the demise of the dinosaurs returns an answer based on creationism. The post What Happened To Dinosaurs? Google’s Direct Answer Gives Non-Scientific Theory From Religious Site appeared first on Search Engine Land.

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Google (Now) Beats Siri And Cortana For Direct Answers — Study

Stone Temple Consulting (STC) published a study in which it compared mobile answers to “3086 different queries” on Siri, Google and Cortana to determine how each performed relative to the others. Google was the winner with more direct answers and more complete information. Eric Enge who…

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SearchCap: Google AdWords Editor, Direct Is Organic Traffic & America Movie Not Found

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: “America” Movie Filmmaker Sends Legal Demand For Google To Fix Showtime Results The Hollywood Reporter writes that Dinesh D’Souza’s movie,…

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Experiment Shows Up To 60% Of “Direct” Traffic Is Actually Organic Search

Everyone knows that browsers don’t always report where visitors came from when they arrive at a website. When they don’t report where they were in the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) referrer header, often the traffic is considered “Direct” — which really means,…

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The Feature Google Killed The + Command For — Direct Connect — Is Now Dead

Cast your mind back to November 2011, only a few months after the launch of Google+. That’s when Google made one of its biggest Google+ification moves. It demoted a long-standing search feature involving the plus symbol so that searchers could instead more easily reach new “Google+…

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