SEO Google’s new treatment of nofollow links has arrived Feb 29, 2020 As of Sunday, Mar. 1, Google is treating the nofollow link attribute as a hint, rather than a directive, for crawling and indexing purposes. Google…
Tech News update Google’s Onerous Balancing Act Between Privacy and Profit Feb 5, 2020 Google’s parent company Alphabet is in a rare and potentially precarious position: It must answer growing public calls for privacy while placating…
App and Software How To Use Google’s Sound Amplifier App On Android Jan 30, 2020 What’s interesting is that Google’s Sound Amplifier app also has a Noise cancellation feature, which is extremely useful in cases like attending a…
Tech News update Google’s Dataset Search Beta Version Is Out With Over 25 Million Public Datasets Jan 27, 2020 Google’s Dataset Search, a feature announced in September 2018, is now out of beta. This new search feature allows researchers to search for over 25…
SEO Google’s mobile-first indexing guide update Jan 26, 2020 Google has updated its mobile-first indexing developers guide, the company announced on Wednesday. New guidelines were added in a number of areas,…
Tech News update Microsoft open-sources ONNX Runtime model to speed up Google’s BERT Jan 22, 2020 Microsoft Research AI today said it plans to open-source an optimized version of Google’s popular BERT natural language model designed to work with…
Tech News update Google’s parent company Alphabet saw its value reach US$1 trillion Jan 18, 2020 NEW YORK: Google’s parent company Alphabet saw its value reach US$1 trillion for the first time Thursday, becoming the fourth US tech company to hit…
Tech News update How Google’s resistance to employee organizing endangers our democracy Dec 29, 2019 In October, I wrote an op-ed for Newsweek about big tech’s gradual destruction of our democracy. Specifically, I argued that big tech continues to…
Tech News update Google’s auto-complete feature, Smart Compose, is now coming to Google Docs Nov 23, 2019 Google’s auto-complete feature, also known as Smart Compose, is available on Gmail where it predicts what you would want to type, and all you have to…
SEO Here’s what you need to know about Google’s newest local algorithm update Nov 15, 2019 Local SEO community chatter began last week with a question: Did your listings experience a drop in rank last week? Then on Nov. 6, a tweet from…