Google recently made a change to their algorithm designed to demote major sites hosting pirated content, but the algorithm has a secondary side effect – bringing more visibility to smaller torrent sites that had been previously buried in the search results due to the more popular sites ranking so well. The new algo takes the […]
Archives for October 27, 2014
Facebook Wants to Host Linked Articles Rather Than Redirect to Mobile Websites
In a move sure to offend many website publishers, Facebook wants to host articles that users link to, and serve their own Facebook ads on those articles. The change, which would affect users viewing Facebook on mobile, means that website publishers lose not only the traffic to their own site, missing out on the potential […]
Larry Page Transfers Leadership of Search, Google+ & Ad Products to Sundar Pichai
In a surprising move, Larry Page has transferred leadership of multiple core products from himself to Sundar Pichai, a Senior Vice President at Google. Pichai was previously in charge of Android, Chrome and Google Apps, and will now see research, search, maps, Google+, commerce and ad products and infrastructure added to his responsibilities. Page will […]
Twitpic Handing Over Domain Name & Archive to Twitter
In what seems to be the final chapter of Twitpic, the original photo sharing service for Twitter users, the company has agreed to hand over the twitpic.com domain name and photo archive to Twitter. We weren’t able to find a way to keep Twitpic independent. However, I’m happy to announce that we have reached an […]
YouTube’s Gaming Division Hires eSports Commentator Ryan Wyatt
YouTube is continuing their push of their YouTube gaming division by hiring eSports commentator Ryan Wyatt. Wyatt, who is also known as his gaming handle Fwiz, made the announcement on Twitter from an Major League Gaming (MLG) event in Ohio this weekend. Update: I’m now the Head of Gaming @YouTube! I’m excited to be working […]
New Top Level Domains Have No Ranking Advantage in Google, Not Geotargeted
John Mueller from Google reminds webmasters that the newly added TLDs do not come with any ranking benefit in Google. It’s been a while since Matt posted https://plus.google.com/+MattCutts/posts/4VaWg4TMM5F , but this is still the case. There’s no inherent advantage in search that comes from using any of the new top-level domains (TLDs). They’re also not […]