Not sure if this is new but if you search for [qr code] on Microsoft Bing Search you get a built in QR code generator tool. You can directly access the Bing QR widget at bing.com/widget/t/qrcode [...]

The Safe Browsing incident described in this post made it very clear that Google literally controls who can access your website, no matter where and how you operate it. With Chrome having around 70% market [...]

This test looked at localized search queries, they wanted to try and add the brand name to the beginning of the title tags on city level pages and see if that had any impact on [...]

Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo reached a major milestone in its 12-year-old history this week when it recorded on Monday its first-ever day with more than 100 million user search queries. DuckDuckGo’s historical milestone comes in [...]

Google’s John Mueller says Web Stories may be rolled out to search results in additional countries if more sites start publishing them. Web Stories are currently supported in search results in the United States, India, [...]

In 2017, Facebook said it was testing a new way of selling online advertising that would threaten Google’s control of the digital ad market. But less than two years later, Facebook did an about-face and [...]

More evidence has emerged of Apple’s plans to launch a podcast subscription service. The Information reports today that Apple is “discussing launching a new subscription service that would charge people to listen to podcasts,” but it’s “unclear [...]

For the first time users are spending more time on TikTok than Facebook as per data from a new report on app usage. App Annie reports that time spent on TikTok is up 325% year-over-year, [...]

It seems like Google is now showing multiple referring pages for some URLs in the URL Inspection Tool within Google Search Console.

Google is testing a “Related To” result in the Knowledge Panel where they show a Wikipedia result to a subtopic directly related to the entity shown on the SERP.    

Google has a new dataset for data to text called ToTTo (shorthand for “Table-To-Text”) consists of 121,000 training examples, along with 7,500 examples each for development and test.  ToTTo is available via their GitHub repo. [...]

Google is running a CTA within their GMB help document section that asks users if they want to Get help from Small Business Advisors, the USA only program they launched in Nov 2020. The idea [...]

Facebook is sharing an update to the changes coming to Marketing API and Ads Insights API endpoints from January 19th, some of they will be breaking changes to best to check if your apps and [...]

Looks like Google doesn’t like it when SEOs tried to find more insights into how Discover works. You can check this sheet by Valentin Pletzer that has documented the various categories he has come across [...]

Looks like most of the SERP position tackers are noticing a big change today, in SEMRush I can see a 5.7/10 volatility score in the US. Check out how some of the SERP Fluctuations tools [...]

Snapchat has taken another step towards making its TikTok-like ‘Spotlight’ feed more similar to TikTok, by adding public view counts on Spotlight clips. As you can see in this example, posted by Conviva’s Mike Metzler, [...]

Two months ago Google launched the new disavow link tool in the new Google Search Console. Now, Google is sunsetting the old tool in just a few days from now. On January 19, 2021, Google [...]

The latest Windows 10 update is causing the Custom Range feature in Google Search to crash – it hogs a massive amount of resources (as seen in Task Manager) and freezes. You might want to [...]