Microsoft has launched Outings, a new travel app for iOS and Android. Designed by the Microsoft Garage Project, the app curates travel-specific content and images to help users find potential travel destinations. “Whether you’re looking for a fun hike near town or planning your next vacation destination, often the hardest …
Read More »A balanced approach to data-driven SEO
We have nearly unlimited access to information and data. For search marketers, this can be a blessing or a curse. It’s very easy to get sucked into the never-ending pool of data — but this rarely, if ever, benefits our work. So how do we protect ourselves from information overload? …
Read More »Google revamps its SEO Starter Guide
Google announced that it has retired the old PDF version of the SEO Starter Guide originally released in 2008, over nine years ago, with a new web-based version of the guide. The last time Google updated this guide was several years ago. The new guide merges the Webmaster Academy and …
Read More »Compare 13 leading SEO platforms
SEO software comes in many shapes and sizes, from rank-checking tools and keyword research toolsets to full-service solutions that manage keywords, links, competitive intelligence, international rankings, social signal integration and workflow rights and roles. How do you decide which one is right for your organization? MarTech Today’s “Enterprise SEO Platforms: …
Read More »AlphaZero Is the New Chess Champion, and Harbinger of a Brave New World in AI
The world has quietly crowned a new chess champion. While it has now been over two decades since a human has been honored with that title, the latest victor represents a breakthrough in another significant way: It’s an algorithm that can be generalized to other learning tasks. It gets crazier. …
Read More »DNA Reveals that Silky Anteaters Are Seven Species
The silky anteater (Cyclopes didactylus) has previously been recognized to be a single species divided into several sub-species. But a new genetic analysis, published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, suggests that this enigmatic mammal is not one species, but seven separate ones. The silky anteater (Cyclopes didactylus). …
Read More »Scientists May Have Discovered Major Cause of Dementia
The build-up of urea, also known as carbamide, in the brain to toxic levels can cause brain damage — and eventually dementia, according to new research. An old man diagnosed as suffering from senile dementia. Color lithograph, 1896, J. Williamson, Byrom Bramwell. Image credit: Wellcome Images / CC BY 4.0. …
Read More »Brazilian startup Creditas is revolutionizing credit in the world’s third largest lending market
After twelve years working for banks and consulting firms on the digital transformation of financial services, Creditas founder Sergio Furio finally found a problem he felt he could build a business around while at dinner with his Brazilian wife. Over dinner in their New York apartment one night in 2011 …
Read More »SearchCap: Google customer match, local SEO & SMX West
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: AdWords advertisers can use phone numbers addresses for Google Customer Match targetingDec 11, 2017 by Ginny Marvin Google Customer Match becomes more accessible to advertisers that …
Read More »Dell Sells PCs Without Intel’s Management Engine, but With Tradeoffs
Last week, we reported that Dell had become the first major OEM to sell laptops that didn’t use the Intel Management Engine. The move was significant, both because of Dell’s size and because the other two PC OEMs that had made similar statements both focus on the Linux market. We’ve …
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