Naomi Osaka started off the Toray Pan Pacific Open with a win, defeating Viktoriya Tomova of Bulgaria on Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals of the WTA Premier tournament held in the city of her birth. Osaka, the top seed, fought back to claim a 7-5, 6-3 victory over the Bulgarian …

  Microsoft Advertising is continuing to invest in audience targeting products. “[Our offerings have] evolved from keyword attribution to more audience attribution as we develop our AI work and Microsoft Graph,” said Microsoft Advertising GM, Steve Sirich, in a phone interview Tuesday. “We continue to drive more aggressively into audience …

  Numerous Google search tracking tools are all reporting a drop in the number of search results that display the review rich results, the stars under the search result snippets. This should come as no surprise since Google announced an algorithm update to tighten the rules around when a review …

For those that understand me, you understand I am stressed with monitoring adjustments in Google. That consists of ranking updates, like those core formula updates, however additionally interface adjustments as well as various other modifications that affect SEOs as well as their customers. One more individual consumed with this job …

  Google’s ranking algorithm might remain a mystery, but it’s always surprising to me that all marketers don’t rally around the same important concept as the most crucial of all: intent. By “intent,” I mean both user intent and what I call “creation intent.” That is, we should always be …

“You no longer need to do anything special for hash-bang URLs,” Google’s John Mueller said on the September 17 edition of #AskGoogleWebmasters, “we’ll just try to render them directly.” The question. “What is the current status of #! AJAX crawling? How do I set up redirects?” asked user @olegko via …

  There are numerous music streaming services, most of which have largely similar offerings. Amazon has just rolled out a new version of its own with ultra-high fidelity audio. For as little as $12.99 per month, you can get access to millions of songs at higher quality than other services, …

  When NASA’s new drone Dragonfly arrives on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, it won’t roll across the surface like Curiosity, Spirit, and Opportunity have on Mars. Instead, Dragonfly is a dual-rotor quadcopter that will fly from point to point, using a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) system. It leverages existing …

The famous ring system of Saturn may be much older than some planetary scientists think, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech. Southwest Research Institute researcher Luke Dones and his colleagues from CNRS and …

Paleontologists have found the remains of a pelagornithid bird that lived 62 million years ago (early Paleocene epoch) in New Zealand. Protodontopteryx ruthae. Image credit: Derek Onley / Canterbury Museum. Dubbed Protodontopteryx ruthae, the ancient seabird belongs to Pelagornithidae, an ancient family of bony-toothed birds. These seafaring birds were previously …