COVID-19 seems to be taking a role as influenza’s more deadly big brother – a constantly mutating threat that is not going away. It has, however, reached a bit of a plateau with a slight upward trajectory. At least for now. The seven-day average for cases in the U.S. reached 108,149 on May 22, peaked […]
We saw signals at the end of last year. Facebook gained the headlines with the global press after internal documents had been published showing the company’s bad practices that could result in mental health problems and even put democracies at risk. But the discussion about how social media platforms can increase harm, hate speech, fake […]
Allison Hasler of Marion owns Southern Illinois Vacation Rentals, a company that manages short-term rentals in Jackson and Williamson Counties. Provided / Nina Wilson Photography Allison Hasler could be described as a Southern Illinois’ cabin concierge. In a hospitality setting such as a five-star hotel, the concierge is one who, although employed by the hotel, […]
Cathy Stanton of Wendell has always had an interest in the history of farming in New England, with a particular interest in how close the present nostalgia of farming was to reality. This interest has led her to join the board of the Quabbin Valley Food Co-op as well as creating the Landcaster and farmvalues.org […]
Google not only is testing more list view formats for the top stories section but also testing, for some queries and some searchers, having the first set of web results taken over by news stories. Shalom Goodman posted a screenshot on Twitter for Alphabet earnings news and I cannot replicate it, and I’ve tried countless […]
Print, radio, and TV are still primary news sources for older people. … [+]Younger people are now most interested in Instagram as a news source. YouTube and TikTok are closely following. getty This week a report from the BBC likely wasn’t seen by all that many younger “eyeballs” – which is to be expected as […]
Google Search seems to be testing a new “trending topics” section for some news queries in Google Search on mobile. This Trending Topics section lets you toggle and refine your query by topics, such as weather, crime, sports, politics, or other trending news categories for that query. This was spotted by Saad AK on Twitter […]
This week, I published the monthly Google webmaster report – a great place to catch up on the Google news. Google may have done another algorithm update on July 5th and July 7th. Google created its own landing page for its algorithm update timeline. Google said course rich results require three courses to be eligible. […]
Lavender Sutton attended the Saturday of the 2022 Love Supreme Festival. Recognised as “The most spectacular jazz festival in the country”, Love Supreme has become a highly anticipated weekend event hosting some of the best jazz, funk, R&B, Hip Hop and Soul all in one place. It combines the European jazz festival model (Montreux and […]
We may have had another update, an unconfirmed Google Search algorithm update on June 27th and 28th. Google’s Danny Sullivan talked about how Google communicates about Google algorithm updates at the Google NYC SEO meetup. Google has updated the rich results guidelines to disallow marking up products that are widely prohibited or regulated, or that […]