Category Archives: Webmaster News

Google Trends Now Shows Trending YouTube Videos

The Google Trends is a great little service that lets you easily keep up with all the popular news of the day. This used to be based solely on searches, however as of yesterday Google Trends will now also showcase trending Youtube videos which will surely have video marketers excited. If you click into Trending […]

Bing Introduces Their Mobile Bots To The World

Bing has published a new post on their webmaster blog which outlines the various mobile bots they use to crawl your sites along with a few mobile recommendations. For starters Bing makes it a point to mention the benefit of responsive design vs separate mobile website versions. Actually Bing has been preaching this since 2012. Furthermore […]

Yahoo Buys Video Ad Platform BrightRoll for $640 Million

In a press release issued late last night Yahoo has announced that they have closed the deal with BrightRoll, the digital video advertising service purchasing it for $640 million (€514 million). This new purchase gives Yahoo a fighting chance at becoming the huge video advertising platform they’ve been wanting to achieve. “Video, along with mobile, social, and […]

Mozilla Launches Developer Edition of Firefox Browser

As announced last week the Firefox Developer Edition browser has been released today by the Mozilla Foundation – and upon downloading it the first thing you’re bound to notice is how much more developer friendly things look. The browser boasts a new minimalistc, dark UI which matches well with whatever IDE you also have open. […]

Twitter Releases 827 Emojis For Everyone

Continuing on with the Twitter news today Twitter has decided to open source a huge library of it’s emojis. The library is available over on GitHub and it’s open for any developer who wants to implement the characters into their apps, sites and wherever else they may fit. There are 872 emojis in the bunch, […]

Twitter Makes It Even Easier To Compose Tweets

Twitter has introduced a small change to the Twitter home stream by moving the new tweet box off the left-hand side to the top of users’ feed. This means when someone wants to compose a tweet they no longer have to click on the small box on the left. This gives Twitter much the same user […]

Adobe Announces Brackets 1.0 – An Open Source Code Editor

About three years ago Adobe quietly created Brackets – an open source text editor built specifically for web designers and web developers. Since then it has taken roughly 45 minor releases to finally bring Brackets to it’s first stable version. The editor blends visual tools into the editor, making it easier to design in code. Furthermore some […]

Google PPC Ads Are Getting Cheaper

Statistica has released quiet an interesting report showing that the average cost of Google pay-per-click ads is steadily decreasing – all while Google’s revenue steadily increases showing a 20% increase in revenue for the 3rd quarter of 2014. So if you’ve been on the fence about making the jump into PPC marketing for your business […]

Google Upgrades Search On Google Developers Central

Being a search engine it only makes sense that Google upgrades their own internal search functions they use across their various properties. While the main Google search engine has had autocomplete and suggestions for a while now – this feature was just integrated into the search function on Google’s Developers Central (http://developers.google.com). The upgrade now […]

New gTLD Domains for November 2014

There are some awesome new domain name extensions coming out this month. As usual you can register these new domain names at either Namecheap, 1&1 or GoDaddy. November 5th: .market, .mortgage November 12th: .gifts, .restaurant November 19th: .engineer November 25th: .click, .hosting, .property, .help, .diet

Firefox Is Working On A Developers Browser

Chances are if you live in the webmaster space you’ve made use of one of the ever-popular webmaster/developer tools built into most modern browsers. Developer tools have been significantly gaining in popularity between webmasters and Mozilla is well aware of this. As such on November 10, Mozilla plans to introduce the new project that they’ve […]

Bing Finally Lets You Search For Animated Gifs

In an update over the weekend Microsoft has given Bing the ability to filter search results specifically for animated gifs. Now when you do an image search you can click on the Type filter below the search box and select Animated GIF. The page will refresh to show just animated GIFs. Hovering on any of the […]