Yesterday we reported Google was unable to index new content. Well, Google posted on Twitter earlier this morning that the issue is resolved: The indexing issues from earlier today have been resolved. Thank you for your patience. — Google Webmasters (@googlewmc) May 23, 2019   What happened. It appears based …

  One of the advertising industry’s venerable publications recently covered the news that digital exceeded $100 billion in ad spend last year for the first time. The editors highlighted increases in digital audio, digital out-of-home and social media advertising spending. Search ad spending was mentioned after all the other categories …

The concept of “local search” has always been somewhat ambiguous in terms of how it’s defined, how it functions and who uses it. Broadly speaking, local search helps users locate nearby services or retailers based on physical location. Over the years, local search has improved with the widespread adoption of …

This summer, the Bulls front office combination of John Paxson and Gar Forman once again enter the summer festivities with the seventh pick in the 2019 NBA Draft, hoping to either move the pick for a veteran point guard or strike gold with a lead guard more suitable for their …

  Pleo, the Danish fintech that offers a “business spending platform” that lets companies easily issue employees with cards and manage expenditure, has raised a hefty $56 million in Series B funding. Leading the round is Stripes, the New York-based growth fund, with participation from existing investors, Kinnevik, Creandum and …

The Moon has striking asymmetries between its nearside and farside in topography, crustal thickness, and composition. A new study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, suggests these asymmetries were caused by a dwarf planet colliding with the Moon in the early history of the Solar System. Global map …

In a new study in the journal mSystems, an international team of researchers analyzed the relationship of age and sex to gut bacterial diversity in adult cohorts from four geographic regions. They found that younger age is positively associated with gut bacterial diversity in both men and women, but young …

An international team of paleontologists has discovered 1,000- to 900-million-year-old microfossils of a fungus in estuarine shale of the Grassy Bay Formation in Arctic Canada. These multicellular organic-walled microfossils are more than half a billion years older than previously reported occurrences of fungi. Microphotograph of Ourasphaira giraldae. Image credit: Loron …

An international team of researchers has found numerous fragments of charred starch plant tissues in 120,000-year-old hearths at the archaeological site of Klasies River, the complex of caves and rock shelters located on the Tsitsikamma coast between Port Elizabeth and Plettenberg Bay in South Africa. This new evidence supports the …

  Eight Microsoft interns have developed a new language learning tool that uses the smartphone camera to help adults improve their English literacy by learning the words for the things around them. The app, Read My World, lets you take a picture with your phone to learn from a library …