One of the requirements for Hangouts on Air that annoyed some users was that users who wanted to participate had to sign in with a Google+ account and made it hard for businesses to easily use it as a platform for online meetings. Google has dropped this requirement now and users will only need to […]
Archives for July 30, 2014
Quality Score: 7 New Things You Don’t Have to Worry About
Recently, Google released a provocative new White Paper on AdWords Quality Score, setting the industry mildly abuzz. Google rarely releases supplementary information about its formula beyond the formal information in its core help files. Perhaps Google is simply “clarifying” how Quality Score works in order to cut through a sea of misinformation. It was a […]
Image Search Startup Madbits Acquired by Twitter
Twitter has acquired Madbits, an image search deep learning startup based out of New York. Over this past year, we’ve built visual intelligence technology that automatically understands, organizes and extracts relevant information from raw media. Understanding the content of an image, whether or not there are tags associated with that image, is a complex challenge. […]
AdRoll Retargeting Bot Attack Behind the IE7 Traffic Surges
Earlier this month, many people began noticing a huge surge in direct traffic on many websites, but primarily coming from an IE7 browser and from within the US. This direct traffic was well outside of the ordinary but it was also skewing analytics data for many webmasters. Barry Schwartz was the first to publicize the […]