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Robots Now Taking Service Jobs

Robots and automation are moving into an unexpected sector, taking service jobs many once thought were safe. Robots and automation have already made major headway in manufacturing and industry, but many experts thought customer-facing service jobs were safe. Unfortunately, the...
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Which Finds The First-Ever Website Better, Google Or Bing?

For the 20th anniversary of CERN making Web technology available to anyone royalty-free, the European science lab has restored the very first website to its original location. Could today’s search engines of Google and Bing, which didn’t exist when the site was first posted, find...
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Google Search Console lost performance report data for August 23rd and 24th

The data won’t be replaced or backfilled, as we hoped for. Last week, Google had one of its typical reporting issues where we thought maybe the data was delayed due to some pipeline bug. But it turns out the data that was lost, is likely gone forever and won’t be backfilled...
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Twitter Gets More Serious About Search

We recently saw Twitter change the look of its public homepage to make it look more like a search engine. And last week we found out that Twitter’s new search guru is Doug Cook, who was formerly of Yahoo and inktomi. Cook also built a wine search engine called Able Grape as a...
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Killer paid search tactics that every marketer needs to know

In this webinar, learn how to turn more high-intent searchers into inbound calls that accelerate your customer acquisition. Paid search is an efficient and cost-effective way to drive more high-intent customers to your business. If you get it right, you can drive high-value...
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Targeted SEO: Here’s how to grow a page from 200 visits per month to 30,000

Pages need to be optimized, linkable and have search opportunity to grow. Spoiler alert: SEO works. Strategic, targeted SEO can drive huge results for the right pages. Of course, the catch here is that you need the “right” pages to see the best results. These pages need to be...
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South Korea Passes Bill Aimed at Apple and Google App Stores

South Korea has passed its “Anti-Google Law,” aimed at prohibiting Apple and Google from forcing developers to use their payment systems. Apple and Google are both under fire for their app stores, and what is increasingly being viewed as an abusive monopoly. In particular, both...
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Arm’s China Venture Goes Rogue, Seizes IP and Declares Independence

Arm Holding’s venture in China, Arm China, has gone rogue, seized IP and is trying to establish itself as an independent company. As part of its efforts to expand in China, Arm’s parent company, SoftBank, was pressured to create a joint venture in which Arm only owned 49% of the...
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Bing Webmaster Tools Adds Malware Re-Evaluation & Geo-Targeting Tools

Bing announced two new features for Bing Webmaster Tools. First, you can now see more details on malware issues impacting your site and be able to submit a malware re-evaluation request. Second, you can now geo-target specific pages, directories or your whole site within Bing...
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Google link spam update done rolling out

It took an extra two weeks longer than expected to roll out. Google has completed the rollout of the link spam update it started just over four weeks ago. “The link spam update is now complete,” Danny Sullivan said via the Google Search Liaison account. What took so long. Google...