You may have never heard of it, but if you are a Chrome users, chances are you’ve used Google’s QUIC protocol already. As Google disclosed this week, about half of all requests from Chrome to Google’s servers are now served over QUIC. So what’s the big deal here? QUIC is Google’s experimental, low-latency Internet transportation protocol over...Read More
WordPress is by far the most popular CMS today, with over 74.6 Million sites managed with the platform. The power of WordPress lies in the fact that it’s extremely flexible – you can do nearly anything you want (with zero coding) using the help of plugins. This include optimizing your SEO, and so here are some...Read More
Search engine optimization (SEO) is something many marketers, web designers and data miners consider an “American thingâ€â€”or at least an English thing. However, SEO bridges language differences, cultural variances and seeps into every aspect of websites (or at least it should!) and website rankings. As a quick reminder, SEO is a set of evolving best...Read More
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If your small business is backing up WordPress only once in a while, then you’re not alone. In fact, a survey of 503 WordPress users released March 10 by CodeGuard, a provider of cloud-based website backup services, reveals that 47 percent of WordPress users backup their sites every few months while 21 percent back up WordPress “occasionallyâ€. This is...Read More
The way consumers watch TV is gradually shifting from cable to streaming. Younger generations may graduate college and purchase a TV solely for the purpose of binge watching entire seasons of series. While television itself will never die, it’s becoming easier than ever to online stream on your TVs, tablets, smartphones, and PCs. And the...Read More
BRUSSELS—Europe’s antitrust regulator has decided to file formal charges against Google Inc. for violating the bloc’s antitrust laws, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, stepping up a five-year investigation that is set to become the biggest competition battle in Brussels since the European Union’s pursuit of Microsoft Corp. a decade ago. EU...Read More
Anyone collecting data needs a place to put it. Harvard geneticist George Church felt that need acutely in the early days of his Personal Genome Project: It was the early 2000s, and he had the audacious goal of sequencing some 100,000 human genomes — each 25,000 times the size of a traditional electronic record. But though his vision was ripe,...Read More
Despite popular opinion, the death of SEO has been greatly exaggerated. However, that doesn’t mean that what was effective in 2006, 2010, or even last year still works today. SEO is a rapidly changing practice – thanks in part to the hundreds of adjustments Google makes every year to its search engine algorithm. Because of this, you need to...Read More
Tracy Rhodes(Photo: Provided to the RGJ) Each month NCET explores a business technology designed to help small businesses operate more effectively. WordPress started as an offshoot of an Open Source software package called b2 cafelog. Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little saw its potential as a means to democratize publishing on the Internet. Since its creation...Read More
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