There are just a few days left to be recognized as one of the best in search!  We’re looking for the most impressive SEO and/or SEM campaigns from around the globe, delivered in-house or by agencies for brand name clients and small businesses alike. We’re ready to discover who deserves …

Hot on the heels of Google’s announcement that it has built a job search engine comes Hire, Google’s new recruiting management tool. Available to SMBs, Hire adds an organizational layer into G Suite applications, allowing hiring managers and HR professionals across an organization to manage candidate communications, access historical applicant data, …

Nine months after Google began supporting the ClaimReview markup, designed for fact-checking review of claims made or reported on on webpages, now Bing has added support in their markup documentation. The new section for Bing’s ClaimReview says “ClaimReview annotations should be used to convey that the page contains fact check …

The latest USB 3.1 specification is pretty fast, but it could be even faster. How about twice as fast? That’s what the USB-IF is promising for its newly announced USB 3.2 specification. The update takes advantage of capabilities already built into many devices, meaning you might not need any new …

The TSA (Théâtre de Sécurité Américain Transportation Security Administration) has been generally accused of incompetence, failure to detect bombs smuggled in luggage, and of making flying even more miserable than it would be otherwise. Far from fighting back against such hassle — particularly in the face of 16 years of …

In 2015, a jury found Apple had infringed on a patent owned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and hit the company with a $234 million verdict for infringement. Two days ago, a judge more than doubled the amount Apple had to pay, resulting in total charges of $506 million. The …

Culture was once thought to be what distinguishes humans from other animals. However, research by a University of St Andrews-led team of scientists studying behavior of humpback whales and other animals tells a radically different story. Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the South Bank, Dominican Republic. Image credit: Christopher Michel …

A new week brings a fresh Google initiative targeting AI startups. We started the month with the announcement of Gradient Ventures, Google’s on-balance sheet AI investment vehicle. Two days later we watched the finalists of Google Cloud’s machine learning competition pitch to a panel of top AI investors. And today, …

Too many marketers still bring SEO in at the end of a content marketing project. They finish a blog post or finalize a new marketing campaign, and at the end of the line, SEO comes in to find related keywords and plug them into content. Unfortunately, this approach is outdated …

Google is adding a bid adjustment in AdWords specifically for calls. The bid adjustment for calls informs how often call information appears in mobile search ads. From the announcement: For example, if you’re a travel advertiser, you may see higher order values from calls because it can be easier to …