UPDATE: Jan. 26, 2026, 1:01 p.m. EST TikTok has shared more details about the cause of the outage that affected U.S. users over the past 24 hours. TikTok has new U.S. owners (finally), but the app had a rough opening weekend, with many U.S. users unable to access the app, upload new videos, or refresh…
Google Analytics has never been perfect, but it used to feel familiar. The shift to Google Analytics 4 forced PPC marketers to rethink how they pull insights, not just where to click. Reports that once lived front and center now take more effort to find. Some require extra setup. Others feel less intuitive than before…
One of the most jaw-dropping athletic feats in recent memory happened this past Saturday, when legendary rock climber Alex Honnold free soloed the Taipei 101 skyscraper live on Netflix. Formerly known as the Taipei World Financial Center, the building stands 1,667 feet tall, making it the 11th-tallest structure in the world. From 2004 to 2009,…
A monster winter storm is currently barreling through roughly two-thirds of the United States, stretching across a massive swath of the country from Amarillo, Texas, to familiar winter hotspots like Boston, Massachusetts, and Buffalo, New York. Reports from outlets like CNN indicate that cities like Boston could see more than 36 inches of snow over…
I found some interesting things in the latest document in the DOJ vs. Google trial. Google has appealed the ruling that says they need to give proprietary information to competitors. Image Credit: Marie Haynes Key Takeaways: Google has been ordered to give information to competitors so as not to be an illegal monopoly. Google does…
Over the last few years, Reddit has risen in influence to be a social channel that Google elevated in it’s search engine results for it’s user-generated content and also a source of valuable reviews for users. Reddit is constructed as a network of smaller communities, known as Subreddits. The value of these Subreddits is in their…
Long before social media feeds or targeted ads, my mother used to say that life tends to show you the thing you’re looking for. Or the thing you’re afraid of. Or the thing you keep insisting you don’t want. If you were trying to get pregnant, suddenly everyone around you was pregnant. If you wanted…
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday that several organizers of a recent anti-ICE protest at a Minnesota church had been arrested. Soon after, The White House X account shared an image of one of the protesters, attorney and activist Nekima Levy Armstrong, being led away by law enforcement officers with tears streaming down her face.…
Google is rolling out Personal Intelligence, a feature that connects Gmail and Google Photos to AI Mode in Search, delivering personalized responses based on users’ own data. The feature, announced in a blog post by Robby Stein, VP of Product at Google Search, is available to Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers who opt…
A quick note up front, so we start on the right foot. The research I’m about to reference is not mine. I did not run these experiments. I’m not affiliated with the authors. I’m not here to “endorse” a camp, pick a side, or crown a winner. What I am going to endorse, loudly and…