Water on Earth, Mars and everywhere within the inner Solar System can be traced back to the rapid waist-expanding growth of Jupiter and Saturn, which knocked inwards a local population of icy planetesimals. This is according to a new model, which could also explain the current makeup of our modern …
Read More »Clara Labs nabs $7M Series A as it positions its AI assistant to meet the needs of enterprise teams
Clara Labs, creator of the Clara AI assistant, is announcing a $7 million Series A this morning led by Basis Set Ventures. Slack Fund also joined in the round, alongside existing investors Sequoia and First Round. The startup will be looking to further differentiate within the crowded field of email-centric personal …
Read More »Empire rally past Freedoms again
Playing for the second time in two nights, the New York Empire managed to edge out a win against the Philadelphia Freedoms despite losing more sets than they won on Monday evening. After clinching Sunday’s season-opener in men’s singles thanks to John Isner, Mardy Fish delivered for the visiting team …
Read More »Google Now is dead, long live ‘the feed’
Google Now was launched at Google I/O in June 2012. It was part of a package of updates and UI changes for mobile search, which included a female-voiced mobile assistant to compete with Apple’s Siri. Google Now was initially a way to get contextually relevant information based on location, time of day and your …
Read More »Google Analytics rolling out ‘ask a question’ to get answers instantaneously
A little over a year ago, Google teased using natural language to get data from Google Analytics just by asking. That “asking a question” functionality has now arrived in Google Analytics and Google Analytics 360 globally. The aim is to make it much easier for people throughout an organization to …
Read More »7 reasons to enter the 2017 Search Engine Land Awards
There’s just under two weeks left to finalize your entries in the 3rd annual Search Engine Land Awards — already considered the “world cup of digital marketing” by some — the competition is heating up as we approach the final deadline for entries. The final deadline is July 31, 2017 at …
Read More »Google asks some searchers to tag movies with critic statements
Google is testing a new feature to let searchers add more data to the movie results displayed in the Google search results. Some searchers are receiving notifications from Google asking them to tag the movie they just searched for with critic-like adjectives, such as “strong acting,” “over-hyped,” “plot twist,” “authentic …
Read More »Study: How (and why) Google ranks videos differently from the way YouTube does
Have you ever been served a specific set of YouTube videos in Google’s Search Engine Results Pages, only to find that the exact same search yields different results when performed on YouTube? Well, according to a new report from Stone Temple Consulting, when Google returns multiple YouTube videos in the results …
Read More »Did you know? Google sees JavaScript links you don’t
Most SEMs are aware by now that Google is parsing JavaScript and processing content within the DOM. We know this not only because Google has flat out told us, but also because it has been tested. We know all of this — and yet, tools which provide backlink data are …
Read More »Eight insider tips for exceptional price extensions
Extensions are important — super important, in fact. I’ve written about them before, and I’m sure I’ll write about them again. They make ads better, and people like them. They’re a part of Ad Rank. They get you more clicks. One extension in particular, price extensions, is approaching its one-year …
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