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 […]
A graphene-based ink. A suspicious biometric in a smartwatch ad. A newspaper for a single retirement community has a higher circulation than a lot of metro dailies. A magazine we’d like to see. 3D billboards get more extreme. A gallery of the objects that librarians have found in returned library books. Kentucky’s Depression-era “horseback librarians.” […]
Microsoft Bing Video search results has had a playlist feature since at least 2020. But now it seems Microsoft is testing displaying the playlist icon in the Bing web search results, not just the video results. Khushal Bherwani spotted this and posted the following screenshots on Twitter showing the playlist icon showing in the Bing […]
Google has updated the user agent string for the AdsBot Mobile Web crawler. Google said if you hard-coded the old user agent string, you will want to make sure to update that in your code. This was updated in the Google crawler documentation. The new user agent string for Google AdsBot Mobile Web is: Mozilla/5.0 […]
There are relatively few online industries as exciting (or as lucrative) as mobile web app development. That said, it’s in a vast ocean of competition, with a lot of opportunities to either make it big or fade into obscurity. With a great idea and a little research, it’s not hard to imagine creating an application […]
Google’s John Mueller stated somewhat of an obvious statement, saying basically that building a good website is often good for SEO. He said on Twitter “A lot of good accessibility best practices are also good SEO best practices, and just generally, making a site better for users often results in indirect, overall positive effects too.” […]
Home Business Magazine Online While Elon Musk continues to work on colonizing Mars, society continues to use the internet everywhere — at work, at school, at home, on vacation, etc. Demand for web app developers is growing at the same pace, so now is the time to start mastering this promising area. AppKong takes a […]
There is some speculation, and for good reason, that Google is showing more short videos about showing web stories in Google mobile search. Glenn Gabe and Brodie Clark both noticed this trend and the two of them follow web stories closer than almost anyone else I know. As a reminder, short videos first debuted in […]
google has published its annual web spam report and in that report, Google has named its machine learning based systems for spam identification with its own name – SpamBrain. SpamBrain is a new name but the technology, the AI, is from 2018, so SpamBrain is technically not new. Here is what SpamBrain looks like: Here […]
Web push notifications occupy a unique place in the digital marketing landscape — allowing you to reach both mobile and desktop users in real-time, without having to build your own app or even an email list. You can use web push notifications to notify your audience about all kinds of things, from promotions to events […]