When it comes to protecting users’ privacy and fighting the spread of misinformation, Facebook is getting worse. So claims a 449-page congressional report released Tuesday, which pins Facebook’s multitude of failings, at least in part, on a troubling lack of competition in the social networking space. Facebook, in other words, is a monopoly — and…
Facebook is taking a giant step in keeping dangerous QAnon content off its platforms. On Tuesday, Facebook announced it’s officially banning all QAnon Pages, Groups, and Instagram accounts. As NBC News described it, the policy update is “one of the broadest rules the social media giant has put in place in its history.” Starting today,…
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Microsoft has rebranded Bing, the company announced Monday, to incorporate the parent name. The now-dubbed “Microsoft Bing” also has a new logo. The company also announced an expansion of Give with Bing, an extension of Microsoft Rewards that lets users donate their points to a nonprofit organization of their choice, alongside the rebrand. The previous…
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On Friday, Netflix dropped the premiere season of Emily in Paris, a 10-episode romantic comedy series about an American marketing and social media coordinator whose job sends her abroad. The show is a breezy, sexy, silly delight, but it’s also the latest TV show to demonstrate absolutely zero understanding of how people use social media.…
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Advertising on branded keywords is often misunderstood. Advertisers either take too much credit for branded keywords, or they deem the impact of branded keywords completely zero (Did eBay just prove that paid search ads don’t work?). The question that is often asked: Should we invest in branded keywords? However, the question we should ask: How much…
If you have been following our newsletter, you would have seen us reporting on unconfirmed cases of indexing issues around URLs that seem to be dropping out of the Google index. We suspected canonicalization issues with Google and we were right, partially. Google said no only are there canonicalization issues but also issues with mobile-indexing.…