Bing Home Page Images Go High Definition, Add Captions & Add Features

Bing announced changes to their search home page including a new HD quality daily background image, improved captions of the image, ways to customize the news on the bottom and quick links to Microsoft Office tools. The new home page images are HD quality with 1920×1080 pixels wide screen display….

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How Organic Search Has Transformed The Rules Of Business

Organic search has dramatically changed the way consumers consider and make purchases, says columnist Trond Lyngbø, and marketers who “get” this can profit big.

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Apple Maps Rejects Home-Based Businesses

It’s Apple Maps week over here. Just wanted to point you over to my latest post on AMM, Apple Maps Is Not Intended To Be A General Business Directory, my rant on why I think Apple Maps should allow home-based businesses to be listed. Kind of ironic given this from the U.S. Small Business Administration: […]

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Apple Maps Using New Partners For Multiple-Location Map Submissions

In October Apple launched Apple Maps Connect, intended to allow individual business owners to edit or add local business listings directly into Apple’s database. Apple told me at the time that it wasn’t intended for webmasters or outside agencies to manage multiple locations or listings…

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WordPress security and Sucuri

When comparing WordPress to other website management platforms, people that favor other platforms tend to mock WordPress’ security. With the huge user base WordPress has, it’s not unlikely that hackers target WordPress websites. But that for sure doesn’t mean that WordPress is insecure per se! Actually, there is a lot that can be done to make it even more…

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Insightful Connections Between Entities on Google’s Knowledge Graph

We’re used to search engines matching the keywords we query, returning pages that contain those words. But what if search engines worked differently? It seems like search engines are starting to do that, with more direct answers to searches that show up as a fact, appearing at the top of a set of search results […]

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Corita Kent Artist & One-Time Catholic Nun Celebrated With Google Logo Reflecting Her Iconic Work

Today marks what would have been the 96th birthday of Corita Kent, an artist whose work was known for its bold, colorful images spreading messages of love, peace and social justice. To pay tribute, Google has marked Kent’s birthday with a Google logo mirroring her style and form. Kent began…

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