This day in search marketing history: January 23

Expedia buys Travelocity In 2015, Expedia bought rival Travelocity for $280 million amid sluggish travel industry growth and pressure from insurgent travel providers. Expedia had actually been powering Travelocity.com since 2013. So the acquisition seemed quite...

This day in search marketing history: January 22

Google deduplicates featured snippets In 2020, Google rolled out a global change to featured snippets that resulted in any URL only appearing once on the first page of search results, instead of twice. Google said there would be no change to its overall set of web...

This day in search marketing history: January 21

Google explains the “core” algorithm In 2016, Google’s Andrey Lipattsev explained the “core” algorithm. This happened following the news about Panda becoming part of Google’s core algorithm. SEOs wanted to better understand what being part of Google’s core algorithm...

TikTok has a secret “Heating” (cheating?) button

According to six sources and documents reviewed by Forbes, TikTok and ByteDance employees frequently engage in “heating,” which is a manual process that guarantees certain videos receive a specific amount of views. Heating is cheating. Six current and former employees...