If you’ve ever wondered how you can combine your love for running with your thirst for international travel, we have your answer: running tours. These scenic runs take you through some of the world’s largest cities, revealing historic landmarks, alleyways, gardens and rivers to help you soak it all in. …
Read More »This Is What 200 Calories of Nuts Looks Like
If you’ve got a case of the munchies, the healthy nutrients in nuts can give hunger the one-two punch. A relatively inexpensive on-the-go food, nuts have been touted as a dieter’s best friend, and for good reason. Studies show nuts can help us live longer and eat fewer calories in …
Read More »Easter Islanders Didn’t Cause Ecological Disaster on Their Island, New Research Finds
New research provides evidence contrary to the widely-held belief that the prehistoric population of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) caused an ecological disaster through rapid deforestation and over-exploitation of natural resources. Easter Island, known as Rapa Nui to its earliest inhabitants, is one of the most remote inhabited islands in the …
Read More »Real estate venture firm Fifth Wall launches an early stage accelerator
The venture capital firm Fifth Wall, an investor in construction and real-estate focused startups that is backed by some of the country’s largest real estate companies, is expanding into early stage investing with the launch of a new accelerator program. For the firm’s co-founder and co-managing partner Brendan Wallace, the accelerator …
Read More »Spieth to defend Australian Open title
Open organisers are hopeful of signing top-ranked local stars Jason Day and Adam Scott to take on Jordan Spieth after the Texan star agreed to defend his title this year. Golf Australia announced Spieth had committed to playing in the Open at the Australian Golf Course in November after the …
Read More »Google image search now shows videos and recipes
Google is now showing both videos and recipe data within the image search results. This is something Google was testing earlier this year and now seems to have deployed it on mobile search. Aaron Bradley posted on Google+ that this seems to be derived from newly supported schema around your …
Read More »Consumers over bots: Why site crawlers don’t hold all the answers
Advances in technology have driven efficiency in SEO, where site crawlers such as Botify, DeepCrawl and ScreamingFrog have flourished. These tools are an essential part of the SEO toolbox and are great at uncovering and visualizing technical issues such as broken links, 404 errors and invalid canonical tags. They are …
Read More »Google says it lost 20 days of data of new Google Search Console users
Google has updated its data anomalies page to document that there was data loss within the Google Search Console tool for new users who signed up between June 21 and July 10, 2017. Those webmasters and SEOs who signed up to the Google Search Console and verified properties will not …
Read More »Eiko Ishioka Google doodle pays homage to the Japanese artist & costume designer
The haunting images that make up today’s Google doodle are a tribute to Japanese artist Eiko Ishioka on what would have been her 79th birthday. Recognized for her work creating Oscar-winning costume designs for movies like 1992’s “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” — or the costumes and set designs she created for …
Read More »Report: 43% of millennials have made a voice-device purchase in past year
Alexander Supertramp / Shutterstock.com According to a new “Future of Retail” report from Walker Sands, 19 percent of consumers have made a purchase using a voice-controlled device in the past 12 months. The numbers go way up, however, for millennials, with 37 percent reporting “they ‘always’ or ‘often’ shop online via …
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