Google offers expands to google+, lets users discover, save and share promotions from their stream

Google is expanding its Google Offers service, which reminds users via a mobile app or email whenever there’s a limited-time deal at a nearby business, so that users can now see, save and share promotions from within their Google+ stream.Only a [...]
 

Foursquare adds more menus, continues to become a better tool for local search & discovery

Over the past year or so, Foursquare has been going through a major transformation – well, at least a major improvement. What they’ve been doing is making both small and large tweaks to turn the focus of the service toward [...]
 

Searchcap: the day in search, may 8, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web.AdWords Ad Group Mobile Bid Adjustments Roll-Out Starts TodayGoogle announced that ad group-level mobile bid adjustments will start rolling out today [...]
 

Searchcap: the day in search, may 7, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web.Google Maps To Get A Major Design OverhaulAlex Chitu reports Google is testing a new Google Maps interface, possibly to be [...]
 

Searchcap: the day in search, april 30, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web.Google News Sources Grow 15% In 2012 & Continue To Climb With Patch.com In The LeadAfter seeing a 15 percent increase [...]
 

Foursquare redesigns location pages in its bid to become a leader in local search

Foursquare knows that more and more people are visiting their location pages on the web. Back in October of last year, Foursquare launched a huge redesign of foursquare.com, and a big change to the way the site works: Non-members were [...]
 

Searchcap: the day in search, april 16, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.SMX Advanced Agenda Posted – Register Now & Save with Early Bird Rates!Join the most accomplished search marketers in the world [...]
 

14 ways facebook homes in on local search

With the announcement of Facebook Home, Facebook has pushed the accelerator on its local mobile strategy, which was already in high gear, thanks to Facebook Local Search and its big brother, Facebook Graph Search. By the end of 2013, I [...]
 

Searchcap: the day in search, april 11, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web.AdWords Product Listing Ad CPCs Close In On Text Ads [RKG Report]Are those sweet efficiencies early adopters of AdWords product listing [...]
 

Search takes on even greater role in foursquare 6.0

This morning, Foursquare is rolling out version 6.0 of its app. It puts a new search box “front and center” at the top of the screen to emphasize the local search capabilities of the app. It also adds or enhances [...]