It’s a mad, mad, multi-cloud world all right. At Cisco Live US in Florida yesterday – the company’s flagship jamboree of all things networking – CEO Chuck Robbins was all but upstaged by Google Cloud chief Diane Greene. Robbins is more than happy to let the great and good share the stage with him at […]
Google’s John Mueller revealed that more weight is given to pages in search results based on how many clicks it takes to get to them from a site’s home page versus the URL structure. This topic came up in a recent Google Webmaster Central hangout, where an ecommerce store owner asked about the best way to […]
HIGHLIGHTS The Xbox One family of consoles may support multiple digital assistants Smart speaker support might be in the offing as well It could substitute Kinect which Microsoft dropped support for The Xbox One, Xbox One S, and Xbox One X could get Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant soon. Microsoft’s own virtual assistant, Cortana has been available on the Xbox One family of […]
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Google Autocomplete is a legendary search feature. It consistently makes the news for its sometimes-funny and peculiar habits (and rarely in a positive way). It’s been blamed for political cover-ups, and has accidentally spoiled countless movies, TV shows, and even video games. But Google Autocomplete is also a powerful marketing tool that SEO professionals and other digital marketers have […]
Google has rolled out several major updates to its Cloud Speech-to-Text speech recognition technology. The overhaul is the biggest since Google announced the service two years ago and is designed to make Speech-to-Text more useful for businesses. Among the updates are pre-built models for transcribing phone calls and video, features that support automatic punctuation, and […]
I read a lot of patents, many of which may or may not apply to search engine optimization (SEO) or be used by Google at all. But that’s not the case with the recently granted Google patent “Related entities.” I believe this patent is being applied and it gives us significant insight into how Google identifies entities […]
Apple had quite a robust fourth quarter in 2017, posting a record $88.3 billion in revenue – with a profit of $20.1 billion – despite selling almost a million fewer iPhone units as compared to the same period in 2016. Since 2018 started, the company has announced multiple new updates and releases, with the Apple App Store’s […]
Google Inc. has added some new management features to its cloud platform that make it easier for customers to spin up and manage virtual machines, which are computers emulated in software for more speed and flexibility. Google Compute Engine’s “instance templates” have been updated so that organizations can create VM instances from existing templates. Users […]
The new features are designed to help organizations create, clone and manage virtual ” on Gcoogle’s cloud platform. Google’s Compute Engine cloud platform unit has introduced new management features that the company says makes it easier for enterprises to create, clone and manage VMs. One of the updates to Google Compute Engine’s so-called “instance templates” […]