The reputation management industry has come a long way since the BIA Kelsey Group predicted that it would become a $5 billion industry sector by 2016. Indeed, there are more review management solutions, sentiment analysis monitoring services, and agencies engaged in ORM than ever before! However, I am not certain …

  William Álvarez, the Director of Organic Search at Catalyst, invited me to his office, 3 World Trade Center, to chat about SEO. We spoke mostly about his thoughts on why structured data is not just important today for getting richer results in Google but his thoughts on why it …

Google has posted an update informing us that the Google rich result testing tool can now report on unloadable embedded resources. Google rich results test. This tool tests to see if your pages have the necessary markup to show rich results in Google search. It can also show you what …

Over the weekend Darren Shaw pointed out and Mike Blumenthal posted about the new Google My Business Provider program (MBP) being rolled out. It supplants the now shuttered Google Trusted Verifier Program. Both programs have the same goal: simplify verification of local business listings at scale for Google My Business …

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch collection that summarizes the most up to date OS information, the applications they sustain and also the cash that streams with all of it. The application market is as warm as ever before with a document 203 billion downloads in …

  Google is almost ready to release a new search provider selection screen in the EU, but it’s not doing so by choice. Last year, the EU ordered Google to offer placement to other search engines in Android, and Google is complying in the most Google way possible. It has …

A team of German researchers has discovered several hundreds of new negative strand RNA viruses and at least 20 viral genera in insects. Phylogeny of negative strand RNA viruses: red dots identify virus orders according to current taxonomy; blue clouds show virus families; selected viral species are identified for orientation. …

An international team of ornithologists has discovered five new species and five new subspecies of songbirds on little-explored islands off the northeastern coast of Sulawesi. The Taliabu grasshopper-warbler (Locustella portenta). Image credit: James Eaton / Birdtour Asia. “From November 2013 through January 2014, we conducted a bird-collecting expedition to three …

Using large prospective cohorts among Chinese adults, a research team led by the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College has provided new evidence on the protective role of tea consumption on atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease events and all-cause mortality, especially among those who kept the habit all …

Retail has become a significant focus of Microsoft’s efforts to support companies’ digital transformation. It bolstered the promotion and advertising segment of its tech stack for retail with the acquisition of vendor marketing platform PromoteIQ in August. Now, the awaited integration with Microsoft Advertising is in beta, Microsoft announced Thursday. …