Bing has confirmed that xRank, the search service available on the Bing homepage, has been shut down. Attempts to use xRank will bring users back to the Bing home page. xRank was released back in 2007 as Bing’s answer to “Google Trends.” xRank was billed as a “cultural snapshot of who’s hot and who’s [...]
Google recently announced they are confident enough with the testing on their new keyword tool that they’re now ready for it to go live. This is important information for those using AdWords. Users should be aware that the release of the new tool means previous “Keyword Tool” and “Search-based Keyword Tool” are no longer [...]
Facebook posted a note on their site, sharing some demographic information about the biggest users of the “Like” button on Facebook. Facebook analysts indicate that those using the Like button are more engaged, connected, and active than the average user. They have more Facebook friends and are more interested in exploring Facebook content. They [...]
Google has good news for all the bloggers, publishers, and authors out there. Finally, Google Docs has made it easy to track changes made to documents. Google has just announced a new revision history interface with a series of changes all making Google Docs much more user friendly. Users have six new popular fonts [...]
If Google has it their way, the JPEG will be completely eliminated and replaced with their new open format for images; WebP. The advantages of WebP? Smaller sizes and a faster loading time. This doesn’t mean the images will necessarily look better, but they will be around 40% smaller. With almost 65% of bytes [...]
