If a recent report by comScore is anything to go by, Google’s search business is under threat by topical search verticals. A few years ago, users had to go to Google to search for anything, from products to restaurants, flights to weather information. However, the increased adopti...
Google Search Is Being Threatened by Changing User Behavior
If a recent report by comScore is anything to go by, Google’s search business is under threat by topical search verticals. A few years ago, users had to go to Google to search for anything, from products to restaurants, flights to weather information. However, the increased adopti...
Only California Is Charging Internet Sales Tax
After the Senate passed the Internet Sales and Tax Amendment legislation in March, a lot of inaccurate information has surfaced on the internet on what the legislation is all about. Some merchants have began charging sales tax for goods they sell to out-of-state customers while others are still waiting fo...
10 DDoS Attack Prevention Techniques
A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack is an attempt by a third party to prevent network traffic access to a server connected to the Internet. A DDoS involves denial of service to a network of computers, such as was experienced by GoDaddy in 2012.
Here are 10 ways that network manager scan prevent DD...
1st July 2013 Final signoff for Google Reader
One of the most shocking headlines that came out of technology news recently, has been the news that Google has decided to close and drop support for their very popular Google Reader RSS service. Google Reader will be functional until July 1, 2013, when it will finally be shut down and the thousands of people using this ser...
5 Tech Startup Naming Rules From SXSW
One of the most difficult things any startup will do is find the right name for the business. Here are a few rules to consider when undertaking one of the most important decisions you will make for your company.
Select a name that you can imagine as a trustworthy brand.
Take the time to brainstorm ideals and images you want your company to represent. Once you narrow it down to a few, base your final decision on the name you think will draw people’s attention.
Find a name that makes a great impressio...
Take Notes: Google Jumps Into Note-Taking with Keep
A very popular tool when it comes to desktops, laptops, and mobile devices, is the ability to take notes. Whether,its voice memos, written notes, or even pictures, notes are integral for both personal and business lives. This is exactly why Google is jumping into the note-taking industry with their own version called Keep.
Whether you want to save that great recipe for later, jot down some meeting notes, or even save pictures that you find online, Keep does all of this and has an Android app companion (Only...
8 Mass Data Errors and How to Avoid Them
Some organizations are investing billions in big data, but are not seeing any benefits. Big data is not really big if it is not beneficial to the company. Many organizations fail because they give more importance to massive data rather than the efforts that will help them realize their business goals.
The following are some of the big mistakes that you should avoid when dealing with huge volumes of data.
1. Focusing on numbers only. Big numbers are only useful if they contribute to realizing your business ob...
Making Ajax Crawlable
The benefits of making this websites who have an affiliation with Ajax crawlable will directly raise the richness of the content from these websites because of the increased accessibility in search results. Availing the content for the purposes of crawling and indexing will work towards enhancing the website. The main reason as to why the Ajax websites should be made crawlable is to increase their availability to the search engines which results to high rankings because of the high quality content that they sh...
5 Tricks To Take PPC Ad Testing To The Next Level
If your intention for your business to increase the impact of your advertisements and obtain more clicks on your site, then you will be interested in the methods that will help you take your PPC Ad testing to the next level. Below are five methods to help you get the grip.
1. THE GOOGLE ADWORDS CAMPAIGN EXPERIMENTS
This is an effective tool for testing since it shows the probable chances of the differences in your performance campaigns strategies and indicates which tests are significant. It shows th...
301 Redirect or URL Canonicalization – Which One Should You Use?
URL Canonicalization refers to the process of choosing the best URL among a number of available options with reference to home pages. You can come up with several URL addresses all expressing the same thing. Google then selects that which best represent the whole set, this is what is simply known as canonization of the URL. Redirection which can be sometimes called URL forwarding refers to the www technique of availing one single web address under many different URL addresses. 301 redirection is thus referred ...