Scientists at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine have discovered a link between rheumatoid arthritis and Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis, a pathogenic bacterium found in about half the cows in the U.S. The study is published in the journal Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. This is the …

Roc Nation, the full-service entertainment management company created by the music impresario Shawn Carter (better known as JAY-Z), is making an investment in financial trading platform Robinhood. The investment, through Roc Nation’s Arrive subsidiary, is the latest instance of a celebrity rapper plowing cash into Robinhood’s free-to-trade investment platform. The company …

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said at a press event for the just-launched Falcon Heavy that SpaceX will now begin focusing in earnest on “BFR,” the code name for its next big space launch vehicle. BFR (aka “big f*cking rocket,” in case you lack imagination) will be designed to be a …

Sometimes Bing Ads is the forgotten stepchild of PPC. The reasons probably trace back to when Bing Ads was very hard to manage and provided very little opportunity for the effort invested, but times have changed. With now more market share and easier tools to manage them, Bing Ads can …

Quora launched its ad platform in 2017 with topic targeting. Now, the question-and-answer network is expanding its ad targeting offerings. Quora announced Monday more options for behavioral and contextual targeting to either narrow or widen audience targets. Behavioral (people-based) targeting Last summer, Quora introduced website retargeting to the platform. Now it’s …

ouh_desire / Shutterstock.com Google has quietly dropped the tappable shortcuts feature the company released just about a year ago in the Google search app. That feature aimed at giving you a quick way to access Google features without having to search for them. Andy B. from the Google Search Assistant …

Google has officially announced the full roll out of the new beta version of the Google Search Console on the Webmaster blog. As we reported, the beta had reached nearly everyone as of a couple of weeks ago. “We are happy to announce that the new Search Console is now available to all …

“Does technical SEO even matter anymore?” “If I just write a lot of content, I’ll drive traffic right?” “Is keyword research even worth the investment?” These are common questions I am asked and see asked across the web all the time. In an era that has proclaimed the death of …

I encounter many people who believe the basic blocking and tackling of search engine optimization (SEO) execution is losing its value, but I find doing this basic hard work still works incredibly well. In today’s post, I’m going to share a case study of a travel site whose business plan …

In December last year, Bing introduced several AI-powered search features, one being intelligent answers. This week Mir Rosenberg from the Bing search team published more detail on how one type of intelligent answer format called multi-perspective answers works. Bing multi-perspective answers provide two different and often opposing perspectives on a topic. “There …