Back in 2013, Google acquired the popular socially focused navigation app, Waze. Since their acquisition two years ago, Waze has finally released their first major app update. The features that are now present in the new update includes fewer clicks, easier navigation, better battery consumption and improved reporting and sharing. Right now, the new version of Waze […]
After more than 1,100 members of Fiverr, a freelance marketplace, of offering to post phony product reviews on Amazon.com, Amazon has filed a lawsuit against them. According to a report last week by Geekwire, the lawsuit came on the heels of an Amazon sting operation in which the company paid some members of Fiverr to […]
In a panel, consisting o three judges, for the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals, it was finally ruled that the full-text book scanning done by Google has been considered “fair use.” What this means is that all of the books that Google scanned digitally is no protected from claims and copyright infringement. At this point, […]
A new feature to song results has been quietly added by Google that triggers the Google Knowledge Graph. In addition to any other information that may be present for a song in the answer box, it may now show an “other recordings of this song” section. With this new feature, you’ll be other covers that have been […]
Bing Ads has announced the launch of remarketing for search and shopping campaigns, just in time for the holidays. Retargeting capabilities were promised last year with the launch of Universal Event Tracking (UET). Bing Ads retooled UED earlier this month, with the target of making it more intuitive to implement and include more functionality. Now that Bing Ads has remarketing […]
Who remembers when Google went after the underground link network, SAPE, penalizing them? It seems that history has a way of repeating itself, and this is no exception, as SAPE might have gotten themselves penalized again. There are reports that finds that there are various “black hat” SEO forums that the website rankings in Google have taken a […]
Google’s former chief business officer, has been named Omid Kordestani, by Twitter, as the new executive chairman of its board of directors. Kordestani, had been with Google since 1999, and according to his LinkedIn profile, was Google employee 11. For ten years, he was a senior vp for worldwide sales and business development, and was chief […]
Recently, there have been reports that Wix websites that currently aren’t being indexed and ranked within Google’s search results. For those not in the know, Wix is a popular website building platform that is used by smaller businesses and professionals to build web presence. Apparently, this odd occurrence began happening about two weeks ago, although Google finally […]
The idea that your apps could be listening to you is a pretty creepy thought. In fact, I would want to say that it would be, to some level, some kind of invasion of privacy. It’s the idea that the apps found on your phone could be listening in to the ambient sounds around it […]
For the longest time, Google had been testing a new interface for Google Maps search results. But now, it seems that this new interface has finally launched. This new interface has come after Google updated the web results to show three local results, rather than seven local results. In addition, the new interface brings it in touch […]