(Image Credit: Peellden, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 )Intel reportedly has a delicate situation on its hands. Although the chip-maker is humming right along with it its next-gen silicon at Fab 42, but there’s a teeny, tiny issue: It needs TSMC’s 3nm process for its Meteor Lake GPUs, but Apple …
Read More »Google In-SERP Lead Forms
Previously in beta, Google Ads announced its updated lead form extension which pops up a form directly from a click on an ad in search, Video, and Discovery. If opted into, it means that when a user clicks a headline from an ad, the lead form appears in the SERP …
Read More »Stadia on Android
Stadia Now Works on Android Phones Even Without a Controller Google launched its Stadia cloud gaming service late last year, but access was heavily restricted. You could only join Stadia by purchasing a controller bundle, and it didn’t even work on most phones. Little by little, Google has opened Stadia …
Read More »Denisovan and Neanderthal DNA Uncovered in Caves without Skeletal Remains
New research led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) shows that Pleistocene cave sediments represent a rich source of ancient DNA that often includes traces of hominin DNA, even at sites where no hominin remains have been discovered. Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia. …
Read More »How To Commission your own traffic and construction studies without ever leaving bed using SpaceKnow
The number of things that can be done from the comfort of one’s own bed has increased in recent years — shopping, banking and now geospatial analytics. Ok, it doesn’t sound sexy but it might give you a leg up the next time your friend starts an arcane argument with …
Read More »SearchCap: Chrome without GoogleBot, stacked PPC bidding & local SEO
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: New study confirms Google doesn’t use Chrome browser data to discover new URLsMar 15, 2017 by Barry Schwartz GoogleBot did not visit a test page that …
Read More »Microsoft launches less expensive flagship Surface Book without an Nvidia GPU
Microsoft’s Surface Book has been an intriguing foray into laptops since the company first launched it back in 2015. The November 2016 update didn’t really change much, beyond adding a GTX 965M option to the dock (Microsoft calls this its “Performance Base.”) Now, Microsoft has tweaked its SKUs and, in …
Read More »How to check which URLs have been indexed without upsetting Google: A follow-up
Back in October 2016, I wrote about how you can use a Python script to determine whether a page has been indexed by Google in the SERPs. As it turns out, Google’s webmaster trends analyst Gary Illyes wasn’t too happy with the technique that was being utilized by the script, …
Read More »How to build links without creating content: 5 examples
Link building isn’t some mystical SEO hack. Building links is straightforward: find relevant sites that have a reason to link and convince them to link. Why would another site link to yours? For a variety of reasons: because a relationship already exists; because they’re talking about your business/products; because you’re …
Read More »Common Swifts Can Stay Ten Months in Air without Landing, Claim Ornithologists
Common swifts (Apus apus) remain airborne for 10 months of their non-breeding period, according to a new study by Lund University ornithologists. A common swift (Apus apus). Image credit: N. Camilleri. While there had been examples of birds remaining in flight for periods of months, including frigate birds and alpine …
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