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Google Plus To Shut Down On April 2, 2019
It’s not an April fools joke, Google Plus is finally shutting down to low use. It may soon be time to remove those Google+ Buttons from your website. The following email has been sent to Google+ users: You’ve received this email because you have a consumer (personal) Google+ account or you manage a Google+ page. […]
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Google Plus recently (in March 2018) suffered a security flaw in their social networking product that exposed user data that had been set to private. Such data like name, age, gender, occupation and email address has been exposed. The security vulnerability was kept quiet and only recently revealed in the media. Google has now announced they […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Reveals A Bunch Of New Products And Updates At Their I/O Developers Conference
Google held their annual I/O Developers Conference today where a bunch of new products and features have been announced by Google. Google CEO Larry Page has been unwell lately (losing this voice) and it did look a little uncomfortable for him – but he did take the stage to give his overall thoughts about the technology […]
Read More | ShareExplainer Videos – Sell Yourself In 30 Seconds
Forget nasal spray and oral strips! In today’s fast paced web surfing world it is not a good thing if you need more than 30 seconds…to grab a visitor’s attention. You have under a minute to captivate your potential clients. Your visitors are savvier and don’t want to waste time clicking, reading and scrolling in […]
Read More | ShareWhy Would A Google Executive Say Something This Low About Facebook?
A. Because they are burning with Jealousy Here is the quote from Google VP, Bradley Horowitz: “We don’t have to make next week’s payroll based on jamming ads with users in an inappropriate way.” Bradley is commenting on how Facebook displays their ads to their users. I found this astounding to hear – considering: 1. Google’s whole business is […]
Read More | ShareFacebook poaches William Easton from Google to lead Australia – New Zealand Operation
According to NBR, Facebook has poached Google’s William Easton who headed up Mobile and Social at Google Asia Pacific. Mr William will now lead the Australian and New Zealand Facebook operation, based out of the Sydney Facebook office. We reported earlier in the year when the then Facebook Australia MD, Paul Burrud resigned and in the […]
Read More | ShareGoogle PageRank Update – 8 November 2012
It seems Google has updated their Toolbar PageRank indicator today, 8th November 2012. I am pretty happy. SocialMediaNews.com.au has gone from PR4 to PR5 Allinstagram.com has gone from PR0 to PR4 – big jump Most of my other smaller sites have remained the same. I have noticed many other publishers in Australia (somewhat similar to […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Launches Disavow Links Tool
In the world of SEO, a lot of it comes down to having a large number of quality links pointing to your site. We are also starting to see social signals influence search rankings but mostly it is your backlink profile. Over the recent Panda and Penguin updates, Google has started to penalise websites with […]
Read More | ShareYahoo Implements Google’s Rel = Author
As I was running a few searches on Google yesterday, I noticed this interesting change for Yahoo News. It seems they have implemented Google’s Rel = Author markup on some of their news properties in the United States. Here is a pic of the search results: This is an interesting move by Yahoo, but not […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Changes Favicon
Well it looks like there is a new Google Favicon icon. It now looks to be a blue icon: It seems other people have been posting this link on Twitter- http://www.google.com/images/google_favicon_128.png , possibly where the new favicon resides. Anyway here it is:
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