Google has stopped supporting the rel=next/prev markup it launched back in 2011. The interesting part is, Google has not supported it for the past few years and didn’t tell anyone! What is rel=next/prev? Rel=next/prev was markup you were able to add to your web pages to communicate to Google that …

Bing announced large upgrades to their text-to-speech capabilities in voice search, improvements to their intelligent answers and visual search capabilities. Intelligent answers. Bing’s intelligent answers are now smarter by leveraging their very own deep learning models, they said. Bing said they can now answer “harder questions than ever before” by …

Google My Business is increasingly becoming more integrated with other datasets on the web. This includes user-generated data submitted to GMB listings, along with the content published on your website. For this article, I team up with Search Engine Land columnist Joy Hawkins to investigate the primary features. We identify …

NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission made the first-ever close-up observations of particle plumes erupting from the surface of an asteroid. This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on January 19 was created by combining two images taken on board NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. …

Drinking hot tea elevates the risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, one of the two major types of esophageal cancer, by about 90%, according to a new study. Drinking hot tea increases the risk of esophageal cancer. Image credit: Fxxu. “Our results substantially strengthen the existing evidence supporting an association …

Tunneling, a key feature of quantum mechanics, is when a particle that encounters a seemingly insurmountable barrier passes through it, ending up on the other side. A series of experiments carried out by physicists from Griffith University, Lanzhou University, the Australian National University, Drake University and Korea’s Institute for Basic …

  Facebook has acknowledged storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext files for years, dating back to at least 2012. To quote my colleague, David Cardinal: “Of course they did. Can we just pre-write horror stories about Facebook so we’ll be ready when each of them become true?” …

  Nobody likes their ISP, and T-Mobile thinks that gives it an opening to expand into a new market. The carrier has announced an invitation-only pilot of its new home internet service, which will support as many as 50,000 homes this year. Of course, this is all part of T-Mobile’s …

  Mac users in years past could look smugly at Windows users, who were plagued by malware that targeted their much more popular platform. Microsoft didn’t even start bundling the Windows Defender antivirus with the operating system until fairly recently, and now it’s expanding to offer Defender to Mac users. …

  Google rolled out the Project Stream demo last year, letting players experience the new Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey in a browser. We all suspected this was just the start of a major game streaming initiative for Google, and now we know for certain. At GDC 2019, Google has unveiled Stadia, …