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Google Rejects Your Right To Be Forgotten About 60% Of The Time

Google’s Right to be Forgotten came into play over a year ago now thanks to a European court ruling forcing Google to comply with requests from individuals to remove their names from search results; and originally started off by by Spaniard Mario Costeja González who wanted Google to remove search results that pointed to online […]

Windows 10 Will Launch With 7 Versions

Windows 10 is coming this summer – and plenty of us are patiently waiting for that to come out – especially since the upgrade from Windows 7 or 8 will be completely free. In a blog post today Microsoft announced some more information regarding the various versions that Windows 10 will be released with. These […]

Google Testing A New Value Alert Tag in Google Shopping Search Results

Google has been testing a new “Value Alert” tag to Google Shopping search engine results. The alert shows below the store name on the Google Shopping results page similar to the Special Offer tag or a star rating and seems to showcase items that are on sale. This was first spotted by Elizabeth Marsten at CommerceHub on Thursday; […]

Order Your Food from Your Google Search

Google has decided that ordering food is way too complicated these days – and as such figured they would follow along in the footsteps of Bing and let you order food directly from your search results. Well so long as your in the U.S. and the restaurant you want works with either Seamless, Grubhub, Eat24, […]

Applebot Is Live & Crawling Around

Apple posted a help document on May 5th this week confirming the existence of Applebot – Apple’s own web crawler. According to the help article Applebot is used by various Apple products such as Siri and Spotlight Suggestions; and it follows all robots.txt and robots meta tags rules. Considering that a TON of people search […]

Google Makes Search Analytics Report Available to All Webmasters

Just a week ago I wrote on here about the new Search Analytics report that Google let me try out – showcasing an overview of website clicks, impressions, and position metrics. Well as of this morning you can try out the Search Analytics report yourself since Google officially rolled out that report to all webmasters. […]

Take Advantage Of These Resources from Google During Small Business Week

First off I have to apologize as this post is a couple days late. Small Business Week technically started on Monday, May 4th – which is also when the attached video was uploaded – however I got caught up with the small businesses I work with and didn’t get a chance to make this post. […]

Scored Poorly in Google’s Mobile Test? Should You Be Worried?

Google rolled out the newest search engine algorithm change this week and we’ve been bombarded with sky-is-falling cries that only mobile-targeted responsive sites will survive and the rest of the web will be lost to the tenth page of search results. Google reps even claimed that PPC advertising costs would rise for non mobile-friendly sites. Don’t worry, […]

PayPal Buyer Protection Will Cover Digital Goods Soon

PayPal made a huge announcement yesterday, without really letting many people know. As probably the leading place to make and accept payments online – operating in 203 markets and with 152 million active accounts (as of 2014 anyway) – PayPal holds a part in alot of transactions for tangible and intangible goods on the interwebs […]

Google Mobile Algorithm Now Fully Rolled Out

Google’s mobile friendly algorithm officially began it’s roll out on April 22nd, and according to Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) that algorithm is now fully rolled out. @methode is the Google Mobile algorithm fully rolled out? Not everyone is seeing the impact yet… — Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) May 1, 2015 However this doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be […]

Mozilla Wants You To Go HTTPS Or Else

Google kicked off the migration away from HTTP to HTTPS for most webmasters; and Mozilla aims to put the finishing fork into HTTP by announcing a new program which will essentially force webmasters onto HTTPS or else risk loosing various browser features. Removing features from the non-secure web will likely cause some sites to break. So we […]

Facebook To Launch Live Chat Support for Small Business Advertisers

Looking to dive into the world of Facebook advertising for your own small business but have no clue where to start? In the past you were left contacting outside ad-specialists like myself, or reading through various blogs and help articles to get the answers you needed – however Facebook is determined to change that by […]

YouTube Now Has A Filter To Search For 360 Degree Videos

Late month YouTube announced the launch of 360-degree videos for Android & desktop users – however finding 360-degree videos to watch on Youtube isn’t the easiest of tasks. Until now. YouTube has added a new search filter intended to help users find 360-degree videos to watch. The new filter works both for the Android […]

Adobe & Microsoft Team Up For An Integrated Marketing Solution

I feel like we’re talking about new partnerships here all day today. Google & Twitter, Google & Apple, and now Adobe & Microsoft who announced the integration of Adobe’s Marketing Cloud Solutions with Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM. The partnership will offer businesses an integrated CRM-marketing solution across a range of industry segments including financial services, travel and […]

Introducing Visual Studio Code – A Free, Cross-Platform Code Editor from Microsoft

Continuing right along with Microsoft announcements from the Build 2015 conference we bring to you Microsoft Visual Studio Code – a new, free, cross-platform code editor. That’s right, cross-platform. This baby works on not only Windows systems, but Linux and Apple’s Mac OS X platforms. Visual Studio Code’s big brother, Visual Studio, is still Windows […]

Microsoft Finally Gives Their New Browser An Official Name

Earlier on this month Microsoft rolled out their Windows 10 preview which included Project Spartan – Microsoft’s replacement for Internet Explorer in Windows 10. Project Spartan however was never intended to be the official name for the browser – and so today at the Build 2015 conference Microsoft announced the new, official, name for their […]