Because Twitter has been seeing a rampant abuse problem, the company has chosen to find the right way to handle this issue.  In an announcement made on January 7, this issue was addressed with some overall improvements toward a safer, and a better tweeting experience.  There was an addition of three major changes – abusive account creation […]

Google has now allowed searchers filter down their search results and/or expand their search results using a carousel-style slider at the top of either desktop or mobile search results.  With many searches, including [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][baby clothes], […]

Twitter, a company that already owns one live-streaming video product, Periscope, has released a second.  The company has added the ability for people to broadcast live streams within its own app.  This announcesment was made on Wednesday.  This followed Facebook-owed Instagram adding live-streaming, which was announced on Mondy for US users. We’re making it easier for you […]

Continuing to get into the holiday spirit, Google has added holiday-themed imagery for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Festivus search results.  By doing a search for any of these winter time holidays, Google users will find corresponding artwork atop search results, which includes a Festivus, a holiday tradition made popular by Frank Costanza of “Seinfield” fame. Searches […]

It looks like Google is now showing videos in the knowledge panel.  These videos are showing up below the knowledge panel and are titled, “videos from the web.”  The videos a related to the knowledge pael information that is tirggered based on your query. This was spotted by @sergey_alakov. @mblumenthal @mattgsouthern from all kinds of channels […]

A few months after Pinterest introduced click-to-play video ads, it seems that that they’re finally catching up with the times, as well as others like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat, and testing video ads that play automatically. It was announced on Tuesday by Pinterest that the first brands to teest their autoplay video ads included American Express, The […]

Over the last few days, Google search results had stopped showing the smaller sitelinks.  links you’d find under the search results snippets to important and relevant pages within the site displayed in the search snippet.  Google confirmed that this is a bug and, as of this writing, are working on restoring the small sitelinks.  These are […]

Amazon’s Alexa just got a taste of Twitter power. Twitter has rolled out an app that they’re calling Twitter Reader, which lets people have their Amazon Echo smart phone speakers or other Alexa-enabled device recite their Twitter feeds.  This app, which seems to be the first Alexa app from a big social network like Twitter, […]

On the morning of August 31, the mobile-friendly labels that populated Google’s mobile search results have officially been removed.  We first got the news last week from Google that they were going to drop the label, but it’s taken some time for the label to go away. Take heart in known that the mobile-friendly label removal doesn’t mean that mobile-friendly […]

Right now, it seems that Google is testing a new format for the Google Sitelinks that are found under the search result snippets on some sites.  Sitelinks, typically, are hyperlinks that lead to important pages within a website.  They usually show up in the form of a simple blue link that can be found under the search […]