It’s the year 2021 and MySpace has somehow found itself in the Saturday Night Live cold open. With the Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen in the news after her testimony in front of Congress on Tuesday, SNL decided to seize the moment and excoriate the old, out-of-touch Senators for asking Haugen tech-dumb questions. The punchline at…
There’s the good kind of attention, and then there’s the bad kind of attention. Twitch streamer and Yogscast member Lydia Ellery found that out the hard way on Thursday when she says her Instagram account was removed without warning. The apparent cause? Her long-owned handle shared a name with the popular Netflix series, Squid Game.…
Don’t piss off the teachers. The National Education Association (NEA), a labor union representing educators of all kinds across the U.S., warned the CEOs of three major social media companies that their respective platforms encourage and amplify dangerous trends among their student users. And the teachers aren’t afraid to name names. In a letter addressed…
Google has just published two new help documents to help publishers control what Google shows in the search results for the title and description of the listing. Also, Google introduced a new term for the title of a search result, “title link.” Control your title links in search results. The first document is named control…
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Climate change is real. And while one can still deny that reality in their YouTube content, they won’t be able to monetize or run advertisements for it. On Thursday, YouTube updated its ads and monetization policies to prohibit the monetization of climate denialism content. The policy covers content that claims climate change is a hoax…
Google will introduce a new policy for advertisers, AdSense publishers and YouTube creators that prohibit ads for, and monetization of, content that contradicts authoritative scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change, the company announced Thursday. Google will use its automated systems as well as human reviewers to enforce the policy, which will…
With the iOS 15 release on September 20th, AMP URLs in Google Search just stopped working. Google is aware of the issue and said the issue should be resolved soon. This is only impacting Google searchers using Google Search on iOS devices that have been upgraded to iOS 15. What happens. If you are on…
Ten years ago Ty Cullen uploaded the original “Hey You! What Song are you Listening to? NEW YORK” video to YouTube. Today we are once again asking, what are you listening to? When Cullen’s video was first posted, it inspired filmmakers all over the world to take to the streets to ask strangers what they…
Google announced it has added a new set of detailed errors to the rich results reports to Google Search Console for some sites. These are called the rich results status reports and you will see a report only if Search Console has data for that rich result type on your site, and Search Console implements…