Today’s Google doodle pays tribute to George Peabody, the philanthropist who is believed to have given nearly half of his $16 million fortune to good causes during his lifetime. According to Google, Peabody is credited with being the Father of Modern Philanthropy and often focused his financial gifts on educational …
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It’s hard to imagine the search community evolving as it has without the support and active participation of Matt Cutts. Those newer to search marketing may never have had the opportunity to meet Google’s Distinguished Engineer and get to know what a thoughtful, kind and open participant he was with …
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Recently, a number of major websites like Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc. and Huffington Post started using nofollow attributes on their outbound links. This trend puzzles me. If you can’t trust the people adding links to their articles, they shouldn’t be writing for you in the first place. Even more disturbing is …
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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Stop! Think twice before using nofollow attributes on your websiteMar 16, 2018 by Patrick Stox Using page-level nofollow attributes? Just stop, says Contributor Patrick Stox. Instead, …
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Google beat Apple to smartwatches by a year when it released the first Android Wear devices in 2014. A lot of industry watchers were expecting smartwatches to be the next must-have gadget, but even Apple hasn’t sold as many wearables as it had hoped. Early leaders in smartwatches like Pebble …
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AUSTIN — Should we start with the good news or the bad news first? The good news is technology is going to radically transform healthcare in the next two decades. It’s been said before and we should continue to say it — if ever there is an industry that is …
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AUSTIN — At SXSW 2018, it seemed like any presentation with blockchain in the title was guaranteed to be at full capacity. Cryptocurrency mania has been at a fever pitch, with tales of overnight millionaires who invested in Bitcoin or Ethereum or others. But much like the internet IPO boom …
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The Kepler Space Telescope has discovered more than 2,000 exoplanets in our galaxy, exceeding all expectations for the mission. Even after tragic setbacks, this plucky little space telescope has been a boon to science. Yet, it’s days are numbered, according to NASA. Mission managers say they expect Kepler to run …
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The effects of long-term space travel are still murky, but it’s something we’ll need to understand if humanity is ever going to take a trip to Mars and beyond. NASA is hoping to answer some of these questions with the aid of astronaut Scott Kelly. It just so happens Scott …
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According to a 44-year longitudinal population study, published online in the journal Neurology, women with high cardiovascular fitness in midlife were 88% less likely to develop dementia decades later, compared to women who were moderately fit; when the highly fit women did develop dementia, they developed the disease an average …
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