Photos (clockwise from top left): St. George Marathon, Donald Miralle / Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon Series, NYRR, Bank of America Chicago Marathon For many of us, summer means lazy beach vacations, barbecues and a break from schoolwork. But for runners around the world, it’s also time to jump-start fall marathon …

Photo: Pond5 Sometimes, trying to determine whether a packaged food’s nutrition facts mean it’s healthy for you (or at least sort of healthy for you) can feel about as confusing as reading Ulysses after a few glasses of wine. Big, bright labels declaring an item “low-fat” or “low-sugar” might sound …

The common treeshrew (Tupaia glis) — a small mammal native to Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia — defies two widely tested rules that describe patterns of geographical variation within species: the island rule and Bergmann’s rule, according to a research team led by Yale University Professor Eric J. Sargis. The common …

A team of researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and the University of Cambridge, UK, has shown how alcohol damages chromosomes and mutates stem cells, helping to explain why drinking alcohol increases the risk of developing seven types of cancer. There are many …

Google announced that the PageSpeed Insights tool has been updated to use data from the Chrome user experience report, which means the tool is using metrics from “real-world Chrome users who experience popular destinations on the web.” The pagespeed tool now shows you how fast your pages load based on …

We are thrilled to announce that the search industry’s most prestigious awards competition is now open for submissions. Exciting changes are in store for the 4th annual awards program with several new categories added for 2018, including: Best Search Social Media Marketing Initiative Best Research Initiative by an Agency or …

It was a decent experiment while it lasted. Google has announced that Review extensions will stop showing this month and will be deleted entirely in AdWords accounts in February. An update appears on the support page about the extension.  Advertisers that ran Review extensions and want to keep their historical …

Greetings from the future! I’m writing to you from January 2019. Since search is such a dynamic space, with every year bringing unexpected developments, I thought it would be helpful to use my knowledge as a denizen of the future to give you a glimpse into what’s to come in …

Based on Alexa traffic rankings, YouTube is the second most visited site on the web, right after Google. Unfortunately, a lot of digital marketers still treat it like any other social media site. But success on YouTube isn’t about posting content, it’s about optimizing your content — just like your …

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 PageSpeed Insights now uses real data from Chrome browser usersJan 10, 2018 by Barry Schwartz Google has revamped their pagespeed tool to give more insights …