By analyzing leadership patterns of all-male African savannah elephant (Loxodonta africana) traveling groups along elephant pathways in the Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, Botswana, a team of researchers from the Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter found that the oldest bulls were more likely to lead …
Read More »Easy visualizations of PageRank and Page Groups with Gephi
In April of last year, Search Engine Land contributor Paul Shapiro wrote a brilliant post on Calculating Internal PageRank. The post outlined a method to look at a website’s internal linking in order to determine the importance of pages within the website. This is amazingly powerful, but I think Paul’s concept …
Read More »SearchCap: Bing Ads import, voice searches & ad groups
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Merkle: Google Q4 search growth aided by changes other than ETAsJan 24, 2017 by Ginny Marvin Overall paid search growth remained steady in Q4. Separate device …
Read More »Want to see if the same search query is appearing in different ad groups?
Having the same search query leading to different ad groups can be bad news. The data about that query isn’t all in one place, making it harder to see how it is performing. It also gets in the way of managing bids: if some queries do badly, turning the bids …
Read More »Snapchat introduces Groups with up to 16 people, plus new creative tools
Snapchat has added some new features, including Groups, a new group chat that lets up to 16 friends share conversation and media. Group chats self-delete after 24 hours by default, and Snaps sent within a group can be opened only once, and replayed only once, by each member of the …
Read More »Hong Kong pro-democracy groups make record gains
Image copyright AFP Image caption Pro-democracy groups celebrated after hearing Leung Chun-ying would not stand again Pro-democracy groups in Hong Kong have made record gains on the Election Committee, which will decide the territory’s new leader. Amid a high turnout they have won more than 300 seats – about a …
Read More »Guess what, Facebook has a separate app for Groups now
Facebook’s strategy of creating separate apps for every feature of Facebook has been very controversial amongst its users – take for example, the Facebook Messenger furore when they forced everyone onto it. Well, get ready to add another app to your home screen. Facebook has created a new app for Facebook …
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