Do you ever see a post on Facebook that you mean to go and look at again or click through on the link, but when you check again, the news feed is refreshing you cannot find it? Facebook has finally added a new search function that allows Facebook users to search for keywords in recent […]
YouTube Allows Users To Check Copyrighted Songs Status Before Uploading
YouTube’s filters that they have in place to prevent copyrighted music from being used in video by the non-copyright holder is getting a change. Previously, users would need to upload their video before they would learn if the video would be removed, if the video would be muted by YouTube, or if the copyright holder […]
Google Testing New Mortgage Calculator Answer Box
Anyone who is marketing financial services online should be concerned with a new Google test. Google is now displaying a very large mortgage calculator that appears directly under the top AdWords ads that appear on the page. This calculator, in such a prominent position, will result in many websites that offer calculators to lose clickthroughs to […]
YouTube is Offering Bonuses to their Largest YouTube Video Stars
YouTube is offering bonuses to their largest YouTube video stars, in a move made to prevent an exodus of their largest draws the video platform. With other companies aggressively courting the most popular YouTube video creators, Google is taking steps to ensure they stay loyal on YouTube rather than defecting to a competitor. Facebook has […]
Gangnam Style Was So Popular It Broke YouTube’s 32-bit Integer View Counter
Google has revealed that Psy’s Gangnam Style video is so popular that it actually broke the counters on YouTube. Previously, YouTube’s counter used 32-bit integer, which meant that the maximum number of views that the YouTube counter could actually count was 2,147,483,647. At the time, Google hadn’t anticipated that any video could possibly be viewed […]
Yahoo Set to Surpass Twitter to 3rd For Mobile Advertising in US
Yahoo is making huge steps in the mobile advertising marketplace, as it is set to surpass Twitter for the third-largest company in mobile advertising in the US. Yahoo is now projected to be the largest gainer of U.S. mobile-ad market share between 2014 and 2016, according to new data from eMarketer out today. Yahoo’s mobile-ad […]
Google+ Allows You To Pin Post to Top of Google+ Page
Google+ is taking a page out of Twitter’s usability book and has made the change that allows users to pin one of their Google+ pages to the top of their Google+ page. When viewing someone’s Google+ page, especially when they are a prolific poster, it can be hard to tell what the most important thing […]
Mozilla Finally to Release iOS Firefox Browser, Could Yahoo Be Why?
Mozilla has been saying for over four years that it would not release an iOS version of Firefox due to Apple’s restrictions on search apps. However, it looks as though Firefox is finally recognizing the need for a Firefox for iOS, according to comments made at an internal Firefox event in Portland on Tuesday. We […]
Latest Firefox Asks Users to Change to Yahoo Search for Default Search Engine
A couple of weeks after Firefox announced that Yahoo would become the default search engine in their web browser, the latest update this morning now has Yahoo as the default search engine. The latest version of Firefox, Firefox 34, makes the change to Yahoo as the default search engine in their search box. If you […]
Google Confirms Recent SERPs changes are Penguin 3.0, Including UK News Site Fluctuations
Google has confirmed that the recent changes related to Penguin that many webmasters have been noticing since last week are indeed still Penguin 3.0 rolling out. Many webmasters have been noticing extreme fluctuations in search results on previously affected Penguin websites, particularly with some of the websites that were hit with the original rollout of […]