Scott Morrison, who previously coached for the NBA development league and for Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., has been named one of the assistant coaches for the NBA’s Boston Celtics. After spending time in the lower leagues of basketball, Morrison is excited to be in the NBA. “It will …
Read More »Google’s job listings search is now open to all job search sites & developers
It’s now official: Job listings are coming to Google’s search results in a much more prominent way. And the company is now offering a formal path for outsiders to add job listings to the new feature in Google search. Google announced this morning that they are now opening up job …
Read More »Watch the SMX Advanced keynote: Google’s Jerry Dischler talks current, future SEM trends
In a wide-ranging keynote discussion at SMX Advanced in Seattle, Wash. last week, Google’s head of search ads, Jerry Dischler, talked new products and features and what the newest innovations reveal about where search marketing is headed. (Watch the full interview below.) Asked what the big themes or trends were …
Read More »What link builders really want you to know
Our job is rough. I have done many things in SEO, and none have even come close to being as mind-numbing and frustrating as link building. It’s been even rougher than usual lately, and that notion is one shared by many of my link-building peers. After doing this for so …
Read More »Retail Listings, Prices for AMD’s Vega Frontier Editions Appear
When AMD announced that it would launch its upcoming Vega GPU for professional markets before bringing it to the consumer space, would-be customers were somewhat less than thrilled. We now know that the GPU will launch for consumer products in July, with the professional Radeon Vega Frontier Edition available in …
Read More »Republican Data Firm Leaks Personal Info on 198 Million Voters
The lifeblood of modern political campaigns is big data analysis. This helps candidates target their efforts where it will do the most good to get more votes and donations. That means there are databases out there with information on virtually all the eligible voters in the US. One such database …
Read More »This Tiny Radioactive Implant is a Powerhouse for Treating Prostate Cancer
Nobody wants to hear they have cancer. And after a cancer diagnosis, good news can be thin on the ground. So it might be a pleasant change to hear that for the most common types of prostate and penile cancer, called adenocarcinomas, scientists have developed a tiny radiotherapeutic implant that …
Read More »7 changes by Facebook that make it a real local search player
The race to steal market share from Google in local search has been futile. Google dominates search with over 63 percent market share, and in mobile, where the growth is, Google almost holds a monopoly at 95 percent. The dark horse in the race is Facebook — the one who can …
Read More »No more ‘OK Google’: Cortana can now be the default assistant on Android
The newest update for Cortana for Android enables users to make it the default assistant on Android devices, displacing the Google Assistant. A prompt when Cortana is initiated takes users through the quick setup process (below). Once installed, a long press on the home button brings up Cortana instead of …
Read More »SearchCap: Cortana on Android, SEO algorithm updates & Facebook local search
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: No more ‘OK Google’: Cortana can now be the default assistant on AndroidJun 19, 2017 by Greg Sterling It’s Cortana you’ll get when you long-press on …
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