Google has dropped its support for the news meta keywords tag. Google introduced the new meta keywords tag specifically for news publishers back in 2012 and quietly stopped supporting it months ago. Google did not announce this change, so publishers, like us at Search Engine Land, have continued to use it. Using the news meta […]
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There is a perception out there businesses slack during the last week of December, but how true is it? Egnyte wanted to find out, so it analyzed more than 3 billion activities from last year’s holiday week. The infographic the company created reveals the number is minimal, only five percent to be exact. Business Productivity
Business Productivity Only Drops 5% Between Christmas and New Year’s Day Read More »
Google announced it is launching a new Google Finance experience today that brings many of the finance features directly into Google Search on desktop and mobile. With this launch, Google has dropped the portfolio, the ability to download your portfolio, and historical tables — which we saw coming a couple of months ago. In search, there
Google launches new Google Finance features in search and drops the portfolio feature Read More »
The base of Amazon Echo, the smart speaker home of voice agent Alexa In September of last year, PullString announced its Author platform for developing text-based chatbots. A few months after the launch, the firm added the ability to create Skills — that is, conversational third-party applications — for Amazon’s Alexa voice agent. This week,
PullString drops text-based chat for voice conversations in its new platform Read More »
Mozilla announced that they have terminated their search deal with Yahoo and that their new version of the Firefox browser, named Firefox Quantum, will feature Google as the default search provider. “As part of our focus on user experience and performance in Firefox Quantum, Google will also become our new default search provider in the
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The optimism coursing through many small businesses earlier this year is not as easy to detect right now. NFIB Small Business Optimism Index September 2017 According to the September NFIB Index of Small Business Optimism report, the dip in sentiment is fueled by a large drop in expected sales. The results, according to NFIB, have
Small Business Optimism Drops, But Not For Long, Says NFIB Read More »
A bug in Google has wiped out a search feature that allows searchers to search within a specific site from the Google search result snippets. The feature launched three years ago, and it is officially called a Sitelinks Searchbox, where Google will show a search box directly within a search result snippet, allowing the searcher
Bug drops Sitelinks Searchbox from Google search results Read More »
MP Terry Sheehan was at Insightworks Inc., located at the Tech in Sault Ste. Marie, on Wednesday morning to make two $490,000 funding announcements on behalf of the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario (FedNor). The funding will support two Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre (SSMIC) projects – $490,000 will go towards deliver the Broadband E-business and Marketing
Terry drops off close to $1 million to help small business (3 photos) Read More »
Earlier this week the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) released its “e-business” report. The category includes search, social media and news and information sites. Social media held steady, while the search and online news sectors declined vs. last year. In the aggregate “search engines” dropped in customer satisfaction by 1.3 points. Microsoft properties (MSN, Bing)
Customer satisfaction with search drops, in social Google+ beats Facebook Read More »
