Are Featured Snippets Good After All?
Moz ran an interesting experiment into the impact of Featured Snippets on website traffic, bravely gambling with their own presence in the featured snippets section […]
Month: April 2020
Hurdles to making digital contact tracing work
Why we should think twice before rolling out digital contact tracing…
Facebook and Google to be forced to share advertising revenue with Australian media companies
Google, Facebook, and other platforms may soon have to share advertising revenue with Australian news agencies without even having a seat at the negotiating table.
npr.org becomes text-only if your refuse their cookies?
Clicking on an article in my Google Discover feed today, I was whisked over to npr.org and the usual (or so I thought) boilerplate query […]
npr.org becomes text only if your refuse their cookies?
Clicking on an article in my Google Discover feed today, I was whisked over to npr.org and the usual (or so I thought) boilerplate query […]
Google Used Your Content, Now it’s Time for Them to Pay
Why Google need to start paying websites for the content they harvest and how this model could be fair for everyone.
Apple and Google team up in bid to use smartphones to track coronavirus spread
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/10/apple-google-coronavirus-us-app-privacy Apps that track who you have been in contact with will aid with contact tracing, but at what cost to privacy and civil liberties? […]
Under fire Google launches a series of blog posts proving SEO works
Call me cynical but I think there’s more to Google’s sudden love for SEOs than meets the eye…
AirBnB get it wrong on coronavirus
Dangerous behaviour by AirBnB. With a database of potential lets, the right course of action would be to disable all bookings and hand the data […]
Why Google should, and shouldn’t, give up its secrets
Google’s mission to “organise the world’s information” is predicated on one very important thing. Secrecy. Secrecy which may about to fall apart in the UK […]