Tag Archives: interesting internet

Why Did My Google Homepage Downgrade?

Did you notice lately that your Google homepage seems to have reverted back to the old black/grey navigation bar design? Google first changed to this design back in June of 2011 and since then has upgraded to a cleaner navigational design. The current Google look and functionality relies on the user having an up-to-date modern […]

.COM Domain Name Growth Slows Down

With all of the buzz surrounding the new top level domain names that are being released it’s interesting to take a look at what effect these have had on the volume of registrations for the standard TLD’s. HosterStats.com publishes reports on this data and the monthly growth figures for .COM show that the TLD’s growth […]

MSN Messenger Sends It’s Final Message on October 2014

It seems that more and more of the technology that I grew up with is on it’s way out lately. Just a few hours ago I wrote about the official retirement of Google’s Web Search API; earlier on at the end of 2013 Winamp closed it’s doors; and now I’m writing to tell you that MSN Messenger, […]

Goodbye Google Authorship

Just a few months ago we bid farewell to Google’s Authorship Images from the search results, and with the new month of September we now bid adieu to Google displaying any Authorship data within their search results. Google’s authorship support page, says simply, “Authorship markup is no longer supported in Web search,” and encourages webmasters to […]

PHP 5.6.0 Released & Installed on Rapid Purple Hosting Servers

Just before the weekend the PHP team announced the official release of PHP 5.6.0. The new version brings about a slew of awesome new features with it, and some of you have already taken advantage of them through the early installs of bugfix versions of PHP 5.6.0 on the Rapid Purple Hosting servers. This install […]

Warning: Beware Of Fake GoDaddy Emails

There is a new phishing scam that has been making the e-mail rounds this month. It’s made to resemble a GoDaddy email telling you that your account has too many directories. They attempt to get you to follow a link to automatically “fix” this issue – alas that link really points to a Russian domain […]

Hey Photographers, Yahoo Wants You To Get Paid!

Late at the end of July Yahoo, quietly, released Curated Connections on Flickr – a program aimed at helping photographers to partner with photo agencies, editors, bloggers and other creative minds who are looking for original content. More-so Flickr seems to be taking on the grunt work here making it extremely easy to license your photos: […]

Russia Launches New Legislative Restrictions on Bloggers

As of August 1st, 2014 all blogs which have 3,000 daily readers or more will be forced to follow the same set of rules and standards as conventional mass media. The law was signed by Vladimir Putin back in May and and applies to all blogs written in Russian and targeting Russian audiences. So even […]

Bing Makes Technical Searches Easier

As a webmaster chances are pretty high that you’ve ran some technical searches in the past. Maybe you were reading through our tutorial series on Programming in C and wanted to dig deeper into a specific function; or maybe you were browsing through some of the software in our Free Webmasters Resource Directory and wanted […]

HTTPS Will Now Give You Ranking Benefits in Google

Google announced late last week that they are now using SSL/HTTPS as a small ranking signal within their Google search algorithm. Yes, a small ranking signal – or in the words of Google: “a very lightweight signal” which is shown to impact “fewer than 1% of global queries“. Google equated the SSL ranking signal with the Panda signal and […]

Bluehost Starts Testing New Shared Hosting Plans

As far as shared hosting goes Bluehost has always focused on one standard unlimited shared hosting plan – however as the hosting industry evolves Bluehost understands that they must as-well. The latest launch of Bluehosts’ WordPress hosting solution proves that. With that said Bluehost has announced plans to change to a three-plan model and introduce […]

Google Launches News Publisher Center

At the start of this week Google announced the launch of the Google News Publisher Center which is a pretty awesome tool for any news publisher. In the past news publishers would frequently loose traffic as they changed and upgraded their websites since Google News wouldn’t always discover the new structure. The only way to […]

Bing Launches Site Safety Page – Explains Why Some Sites Are Bad

In a recent post on the Bing Webmaster Blog they announced a new feature named the Bing Site Safety Page. The Bing Site Safety Page shows up within search results when a certain website displayed in the result set has been flagged by Bing for a potential safety issue. Bing will then show the searcher what the issue […]

Google Introduces Reviews for Product Listings

Those of you who actively utilize Google Shopping probably noticed that some of your search results look a bit different today. Those of you browsing Google within the United States will see product ratings appear in the form of stars and review counts on Product Listing Ads. This 5-star rating system represents aggregated rating and review data […]

New Domain Names for August 2014

Last month we had some great new domain name releases such as .consulting, .blackfriday, .christmas. This month we’re looking forward to some great new niche domain names like .actor and .dental. As usual you can register these new domain names at either Namecheap, 1&1 or GoDaddy. August 6th: .actor, .rocks, .wtf, .fail and .limited August 13th: .dental, .care, .clinic and .surgery August […]