The Virginia men’s and women’s tennis teams each earned an at-large berth into the NCAA Tournament on Tuesday. The UVa women’s tennis team will travel to the Columbia, South Carolina regional for their first two rounds. Meanwhile, the UVa men’s tennis team will travel to Columbia University in New York …
Read More »[Report] Shopping ads are eating text ads: accounted for 60% of clicks on Google, 33% on Bing in Q1
Shopping campaigns on Google and Bing continued to fuel paid search spend in Q1 2018, according to digital agency Merkle’s latest quarterly report. Overall, search spend increased 21 percent year over year among the sample of Merkle clients’ US campaigns included in the report [registration required]. Looking at overall performance, …
Read More »Searcher intent: The secret ingredient behind successful content development
Google’s goal is to satisfy a searcher’s intent. When a user finds what they’re looking for after clicking on an organic search result, that’s a success. Sounds easy enough, but things get complicated when there are multiple results that may fulfill the primary intent of a given query. What is …
Read More »The ultimate guide to bot herding and spider wrangling — Part Two
In Part One of our three-part series, we learned what bots are and why crawl budgets are important. Let’s take a look at how to let the search engines know what’s important and some common coding issues. How to let search engines know what’s important When a bot crawls your …
Read More »Intel Kills Kaby Lake-X Less Than a Year After Launch
Last year, Intel launched an unusual desktop CPU family. The Kaby Lake-X series of processors was an attempt to goose demand for Intel’s HEDT (High End DeskTop) platform by offering cheaper CPUs based on Kaby Lake, rather than the Skylake-X cores that Intel introduced at the same time. The Core …
Read More »FTC Promises Legal Action if Warranty-Voiding Stickers Aren’t Fixed Soon
Those “warranty void if removed” stickers have plagued many a tinkerer over the years, but the FTC said last month that those warnings are illegal. It told six companies, including Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony, to knock that off. The full text of the notices has been revealed, and the FTC …
Read More »SearchCap: Google My Business dashboard & API, class action awards & clickbait
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google launches new Google My Business API, new dashboard to manage multiple locationsMay 1, 2018 by Greg Sterling Now a single registered account on GMB will …
Read More »“Hot For Food” Author And YouTube Personality Lauren Toyota Talks To Real Style
Although she may be easily recognized as a former Canadian television personality and MuchMusic host, Lauren Toyota has now discovered an entirely new realm for herself. The 35-year-old Mississauga, Ontario-born star recently penned a new vegan cookbook, called Hot For Food. Not only did Real Style had a chance to …
Read More »New Lawsuit Alleges Anti-Trust Collusion Between DRAM Manufacturers
A new lawsuit alleges that Samsung, Hynix, and Micron — which together control 96 percent of the DRAM market — have unjustly colluded to raise the price of DRAM from January 1, 2016 through February 1, 2018. The suit notes that RAM prices fell from 2014-2015, when the three companies …
Read More »The 2016 MacBook Pro Keyboard May Fail Twice As Often As Older Models
Apple worked for years to make its laptops slimmer and lighter, and keyboards get in the way of that. In 2016, Apple debuted a new kind of “butterfly” keyboard switch that makes the typing surface thinner than ever, but owners have reported frequent problems with the keys becoming unresponsive. Apple …
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