Google doesn’t show ads when your query includes anything related to covid, so if you use ‘covid’ as an excluded phrase (e.g. nvidia 3080 -covid), you get similar results but without ads. eg: nvidia 3080 [...]

Bill Slawski breaks down a newly granted Google patent Ranking content using content and content authors that sheds some light on how Google may use this in Search. One way this patent identifies original content [...]

Kevin Indig looked at 3 case studies of sites that saw a traffic drop when a core algorithm update went out, went through a redesign and saw a reversal during the next algorithm update.

TikTok appears to be testing an in-house Cameo competitor. According to screenshots posted by Fabian Ouwehand, the cofounder of Amsterdam-based TikToker management company Many, some TikTok creators now have the ability to offer commissioned videos. Fans can request birthday wishes, pep talks [...]

TikTok tests a dedicated gaming hub.

Version 1.0 of the Web Vitals extension includes a new feature that integrates real-user data from the Chrome UX Report (CrUX) with your local Core Web Vitals measurements. This feature displays your local measurements in the [...]

Advertisers have begun shifting their spending patterns in the months since Apple Inc. began requiring apps to gain iPhone and iPad users’ permission to track them. After the tracking change took effect in April, many users of Apple’s iOS [...]

The famous open source audio manipulation program was acquired by a company named Muse Group two months ago. The parent company is a multi-national company and it has been trying to start a data-collection mechanism in [...]

Americans now spend more time on TikTok than YouTube. At least, according to analytics firm App Annie’s latest State of Mobile report, which tracks trends in consumer behavior on a wide range of mobile apps [...]

This document is a comparison of various ways the tags in HTML are processed depending on the attributes set. It’s a great cheat sheet to have in you tool belt.

Google has given the boot to nine Android apps downloaded more than 5.8 million times from the company’s Play marketplace after researchers said these apps used a sneaky way to steal users’ Facebook login credentials. [...]

Twitter is considering changes to the way it contextualizes misleading tweets that the company doesn’t believe are dangerous enough to be removed from the platform outright. The company announced the test in a tweet Thursday [...]