Freebase announces they will close up shop after migrating their data and APIs to Wikidata. How will this impact the Google Knowledge Graph? The post Google To Close Freebase, Which Helped Feed Its Knowledge Graph appeared first on Search Engine Land.
SEO firms interested in leveraging the expertise of Page One Power, can become either White Label Partners or Referral Partners beginning now. Work with Page One Power to increase your clients’ search visibility and lend authority to their brand while you focus on other aspects of their SEO...
In time for Google's 2014 #YearInReview, Google Trends now showing trending topics of the year. The post Google Trends Rolls Out “2014 Trending Topics” Feature, Site Redesign & Expanded YouTube Lists appeared first on Search Engine Land.
From the most popular Google Maps searches to the most asked, "What is...?" questions, Google gives us a look at its year in search. The post Google’s 2014 Top Trending Searches: The World Mourns Robin Williams, Asks About Ebola & Looks For Walmart appeared first on Search Engine Land.
Even Hollywood makes branding and SEO mistakes. Contributor Stoney deGeyter shows us how we can learn from a recent example. The post Don’t “Live. Die. Repeat.” Your Keyword Mistakes appeared first on Search Engine Land.
Google takes Google Now to the next level but integrating your home appliances directly into voice search and predictive search behavior. The post Nest + Google Now = Google’s Now Predicting How Your Home Should Run appeared first on Search Engine Land.
News outlets such as the Wall Street Journal and AP are reporting that Google News España has shut down. However it appears to still be up and available on the site. As Barry Schwartz points out, if you visit news.google.es you’re directed to the following help page. The page offers an...
Today's Google Doodle pays tribute to the "Father of Abstract Art" on what would have been the painter's 148th birthday. The post Wassily Kandinsky Google Logo Shares The Abstract Artist’s Style With Users Around The World appeared first on Search Engine Land.
Do you have a topic you’d like to see covered in a session at SMX London 2015 on May 20-21, 2015? Something you’d like to see covered in depth, or a discussion of strategies and tactics for getting the most out your search marketing campaigns? If so, we’d like to hear from you. Anyone can...
A jury decided Tuesday that Apple wasn’t trying to monopolize digital music when it added FairPlay, a digital rights management technology, to songs it sold on iTunes. The class-action suit against Apple was a decade in the making, but it took jurors just The lawsuit covered iPods purchased between September 2006 and March 2009, when only songs purchased in iTunes—and thereby protected by FairPlay—or imported from CDs would play on the devices. The jury was asked to decide whether two versions of iTunes, which included iPod firmware that made songs from rival services incompatible with the devices, were major product improvements or designed specifically to block rival services. One of the iTunes versions was tossed out of contention, and the jury decided that the other iTunes update did actually improve the product.
With version 2.3 of Pebble’s Android app, users can press the center button on Pebble’s right side to bring up a list of possible actions. For example, users can delete an email, send a template response, or dismiss the notification on both the phone and the watch. Because this uses the same system as Android Wear, app developers don’t have to do any extra work to bring actionable notifications to Pebble.
Netflix has updated its Android app so that friends can send you things to watch, and has also added some rudimentary Android Wear support. Now, when a Facebook friend recommends a movie or show, Android users will see options to play the movie, “thank” the friend or view more information straight from the notification bar. If you have an Android Wear smartwatch, those actions will carry over to your wrist, so you can quickly thank a friend or have your phone start to play the video. Both additions build upon the social features that Netflix
Apple now supports the cards that account for 90 percent of all U.S. credit card transactions. But will more people start using the new payment solution?
In an era of slick gadgets, PCs are the dinosaurs, ensnared in wire clutter, sporting tired 2D cameras and stricken with the occasional blue screen of death. Technology coming up in 2015, though, is set to make PCs more interactive, fun and perhaps nosier than you’d like them to be. Apple’s iPad changed the way people viewed computers and spurred PC innovation. Hardware makers drew ideas from mobile devices, gaming consoles and even 3D printers to rethink the PC, and the resulting new technologies will have a profound effect on how laptops and desktops are used next year and into the future. Perhaps the most interesting idea is Intel’s “wire-free” PC, in which wireless technology will replace display, charging and data transfer cables. Chip maker Intel next year will show an experimental laptop that has no ports, and relies completely on wireless technology to connect to monitors and external storage devices.
When you encounter a rude or angry person out in the world, you can easily disregard them. But when they’re your customers calling or coming in for help, you don’t have that option. Whether they have a legitimate grievance or simply want to complain to somebody, your customer’s problems are yours. Here are five steps in handling a problem customer. Take them in this order, and you'll retain far more customers than you'll lose. Don't return the customer's anger. Let them ridicule you and the company (they probably won't see the difference). Let them get the anger out of their system. Remember that they probably spent the last 15 minutes on hold, listening to bad music and worse company promos. Be patient.
Microsoft is bringing some special gestures to Lumia Phones that may be a prelude to more expansive features coming to handsets with
There's a relatively new technology built in to most browsers that could revolutionize the way you talk with your friends and family. Called Even better, most implementations of the technology don't require an account of any kind. Chats take place on a web page that you set up on a site that supports webRTC. To get chatting all you have to do is share a link to the web page and you'll be up and running in no time. Talk about hassle free!
With BMW’s Remote Valet Parking Assistant may you never have to set foot in a parking garage again: The car should find a place to park on its own. The feature can be controlled from a smartwatch and will be demonstrated at the International CES trade show in January. Cars that can park themselves once you have found a spot are becoming increasingly common, but BMW takes this to a whole new level with the Remote Valet Parking Assistant. The feature has been integrated in a research version of the electric BMW i3, and combines information from laser sensors with digital plans of multi-storey car parks to navigate. The driver can just get out and activate the parking assistant on a smartwatch, for example. The sensors let the car recognize the structural features of the car park and avoid any obstacles that appear unexpectedly, such as incorrectly parked vehicles. Once the car has arrived at the parking space, it locks itself.