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Bing Image Widget Goes Offline

I had JUST introduced everyone here to the Bing Image Widget which is now, unfortunately, temporarily offline. Following a lawsuit filed by Getty Images, Microsoft has taken the beta version of its Bing Image Widget offline. Getty had complained that Microsoft’s widget infringed on copyright by enabling people to embed protected images in websites without attribution or […]

Google Changes Site Search Placement In Search Results

Surely most of you by now have made use of the site search box that Google shows you when you run a search for a company name. Go ahead and try it, run a search for “Youtube” on Google and you’ll see a search box appear within the first search result from which you can […]

Bing Introduces Bulk Editing To Bing Ads Web UI

In the past managing PPC campaigns for large accounts with lots of keywords and hundreds of ads was well … pretty much a pain in the ass. You’re ideal environment would require two screens, one running the Bing Ads Editor and one running the Bing Ads web UI. Thankfully that has all changed as Bing announced the […]

Free Invites For The Google Domains Beta

As it sits right now the Google Domains beta is an invite-only service. Luckily I have 5 invites to give away! I figured I would run this deal throughout the weekend, picking a person or two each day to receive an invite. So, how do you get one?

ROOT Becomes Canada’s First Datacenter To Accept Bitcoins

As I said earlier, Bitcoin is really making moves in the technology field – as it should considering the tech behind it. Doing my own developments with Bitcoin and the BitPay API I get pretty excited as more and more technology companies become accepting of Bitcoin – as evidence by my post regarding my joy […]

Bing Launches NFL Predictions While Google Builds GIF Generators

The first NFL game of the season was last night, and Bing and Google took no time in getting in ready for the season. Bing kickstarted the season by launching Bing Predicts, a service that …

Warning: WordPress Slider Revolution Critical Security Vulnerability

I know that Wordpress 4.0 was released last night and the majority of the Wordpress community is spending these next few days updating their websites and fixing any bugs and issues that arise. With that …

Google Apps for Business Becomes Google Apps for Work

Those of us who work closely with Google products have become familiar with referring to the Google Apps suite for businesses as just that: Google Apps for Business – however as of this week all that has changed. Google Apps for Business has now become Google Apps for Work – and if you listen to the reasoning […]

Apache Begins To Accept Bitcoin Donations

I haven’t really mentioned Bitcoin or any crypto currency on here yet however I am actively working on several developments featuring the BitPay API, and there are plans to write up a few tutorials regarding it aswell. With that said I myself am extremely interested in Bitcoin and the possibilities it has – so it’s […]

Google Rules The StatCounter Charts

September brings about the last few weeks of summer, the start of the new school year, and the coming of the end of the year. As such it’s a good time to take a look at the StatCounter charts and graphs and see what’s happening with browser and search engine trends. Back in May 2014 […]

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, […]

Google’s Web Search API is Retiring Soon

The Google Web Search API was something I kind of grew up with, so it’s with a sad heart that I must say that Google has finally set a date in stone for when to pull the plug.

Bing Explains Their Stance on Web Spam

Bing has published a new blog post that I believe is a must-read for any webmaster or SEO’r. Titled Web Spam Filtering the post goes into detail about what web spam is, how it works, and what Bing is doing about it. Bing actually takes a very interesting methodology to understanding and fighting web spam […]

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 […]