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The Knight Foundation, a private not-for-profit American foundation that gives support to new ideas for transforming journalism, media and the arts, promoting engagement across different communities, has awarded a $250,000 grant to Wikipedia for a new project called the ‘Knowledge Engine’. Wikipedia is part of the Wikimedia family and reports […]
Google’s diving into social media to offer dedicated 24-hour support over the working week (from Monday to Friday) for AdWords-related queries from customers. They’ll be extending their English language support across Facebook, Google+, YouTube and Twitter. The AdWords team issued a tweet on 11th February with this breaking news, but […]
In April 2012, Google launched the Penguin update to weed out sites purportedly spamming search results, particularly those using links that were either bought or obtained through link networks, with the sole purpose of boosting a site in Google rankings. Whenever a new Penguin update comes out, sites that have […]
Taking on web-giants Google in the courtroom is a brave and bold move and as UK based company Streetmap recently found out, David doesn’t always manage to topple Goliath. As their name implies, Streetmap peddle a maps and directions service covering the whole United Kingdom; a venture undeniably similar to […]
HTTP has been around over 15 years and is showing it’s age. The demands of page loading have increased exponentially, with statistics showing that over 50% of websites load 75 or more files. This is currently difficult to achieve, since HTTP/1.1 only allows one request per TCP connection. To work […]
Many people don’t realise the trouble they can get into through leaving a false review on the internet. One divorcing couple, Copia Blake and Peter Birzon found out the hard way, after they left a bad review on Yelp (and possibly reviews on other sites too) in respect of attorney […]
On Wednesday, Twitter launched its “improved timeline”, essentially introducing an algorithm-based timeline, altering users top view of their timeline based on their previous Twitter activity data. Twitter’s suggestion that it is an improvement to its original timeline comes from the fact that it pushes, objectively, the most “important” tweets to […]
According to sources, Google Shopping will begin to toughen up on merchants and retailers who do not follow Google’s stringent GTIN (Global Trade Item Number) requirements. A number of online retailers were pre-warned last year (2015) that 50 brands did not meet their requirements – Google is furthering their efforts […]
Ever since Google began their ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ (RTBF) in 2006, 43% of links submitted (approx. 1.4 million URLs) have been removed. Now, Google plans to remove European RTBF links from worldwide search engines for those searching in the country where the request was made, making it almost impossible […]