BRUSSELS—European Union competition regulators are preparing to issue an additional layer of formal charges as soon as late July against Alphabet Inc.’s Google over its behavior with its shopping service, according to people familiar with the matter. The so-called supplementary statement of objections will likely sharpen the EU’s previous accusations that Google uses its dominance...Read More
For years Google and other search engines have been essential for gaining visibility on the web, yet today social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Google+, and other networks are major sources of traffic. These sites work a bit differently than Google. If you’re tasked with developing or running a WordPress site, you...Read More
As much as the SEO industry wants to grow up and shed the shady reputation it had in the past, it seems many don’t want to change and still cast a shadow over the industry. For every company doing things right, it seems there are many more who have not updated their practices or still want to...Read More
Two weeks after Twitter acquired Magic Pony to advance its machine learning smarts for improving users’ experience of photos and videos on its platform, Google is following suit. Today, the maker of Android and search giant announced that it has acquired Moodstocks, a startup based out of Paris that develops machine-learning based image recognition technology for...Read More
WordPress upgraded to version 4.5.3 last month with a security release for all versions of the content management system. But it quickly discovered a number of vulnerabilities. A total of 17 bugs were found in the last three releases from this year, many of which allowed attackers to take over websites running on WordPress. And...Read More
There’s been a story going around that technical SEO is something made up by SEO experts, and this trend has been angering SEO professionals around the globe. We admit there’s a lot of value in adding great content to your site, but if the technical aspect isn’t as it should be, you’ll never get where...Read More
Oracle v. Google Judge blasts Oracle’s attempt to overturn pro-Google jury verdict The Google/Oracle decision was bad for copyright and bad for software How Oracle’s fanciful history of the smartphone failed at trial Google’s fair use victory is good for open source Op-ed: Oracle attorney says Google’s court victory might kill the GPL View all…...Read More
NAPLES, FL–(Marketwired – July 04, 2016) – The independent authority on search marketing solutions, topseos.com, has named SEO Brand the best search engine optimization agency for the month of July 2016. SEO Brand was chosen based on their remarkable performance in an in-depth analysis of the solutions they offer. While there are thousands of firms...Read More
Baking a cake is easy — when you use all the right ingredients from the beginning! But just imagine how it would be if you mixed the batter, poured it into a tray, sprinkled icing sugar all over it, and were just about to pop the creation into the oven… when you remember that you forgot...Read More
Yep, it’s not just you: Google Calendar appears to be down and has been since 9:47AM ET, according to Google’s App Status Dashboard. Try going to Google Calendar now and you’ll likely be greeted with a blank page, or a server error page that tells you in a handful of languages that your meetings today...Read More
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