This week Reddit announced it will be moving away from its integration with Imgur and introduce its own image uploading tool. At first the beta feature will only be available to select communities/sub-Reddits. Reddit’s new tool is actually slightly less capable than Imgur. The new tool allows you to upload images up to 20 MB […]
Month: May 2016
Google has announced new upgrades for its iOS app, designed to create a faster mobile experience. As part of the updates, Google says it has cut down on loading times and is rolling out AMP content on the Google iOS app. In addition to a faster experience, the Google App for iOS will also get […]
Twitter officially announced May 24 that @names will also not be included in the character count. You also don’t have to add a period before usernames for them to be seen in followers’ feeds. The days of forcing abbreviations so you can fit your text and a photo under Twitter’s 140-character limit will soon be history. Twitter will no longer count […]
Google announced a new Android app dedicated to conducting scientific research. It is being marketed as a tool for conducting science with your phone. Using an Android phone’s internal sensors, and external add-ons, you’ll be able to conduct experiments on the world around you. With the app you can make notations on each of your scientific tests; […]
As we reported earlier this month, Google has been testing longer text ads in search results across devices. On Tuesday, the company announced Expanded Text Ads will be available to advertisers later this year. With the removal of right-side ads, Google now has the flexibility to give text ads more characters in a way that […]
The Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) announced Monday that it is launching its “Certified Against Fraud” certification program. Initially announced in October, over thirty ad tech and agency partners have now signed on to participate in the initiative aimed rooting out fraud in digital advertising: Amobee, AppNexus, Collective, comScore, DoubleVerify, Dstillery, engage:BDR, Exponential, Forensiq, Horizon Media, […]
Business Insider reports that, for the first time ever, advertisements are on their way to Google’s image search results. The rollout is starting slow, beginning with shopping ads which will appear in appropriate image searches. Ads in Google’s image search will take up an entire line of screen space which would otherwise have been occupied by images. […]
Google unveiled its own voice assistant at Google I/O this week, which is a smart, conversational extension of Google that many are calling the answer to Amazon’s Alexa. The simply titled Google Assistant will live inside Google hardware similar to how Alexa lives inside the Echo, and Cortana lives inside Microsoft hardware. Google Assistant can be brought […]
With seemingly no consistency between the title tag lengths now on mobile and desktop, how do SEOs decide which length of titles to implement on their websites? I have reached out to Google asking for more details about whether or not this is just a test or if it is permanent, and they have yet […]
Gboard, a new keyboard app for iOS, was launched today by Google to enable searching directly in your iOS keyboard – without leaving the app. Google announced that they’ve launched GBoard, an iOS based keyboard app that you can install and use to search directly in any app, without having to leave the app. It doesn’t only […]