Via The Intercept “The internal email, obtained by The Intercept, was sent by management at a firm that translates corporate texts and app interfaces for Google and other clients. The email passed along instructions from Google with the new wording. The instructions also noted that the word “war” should continueContinue Reading
After my old website (domain name really) was lost, and turned into a health blog I started looking for new solutions for a personal home page. And while I could turn this into a discussion about backing things up if you want to get them back, that’s old hat atContinue Reading
Google has spent years making user signaling a factor in search ranking. Each update of the search engine’s algorithm, starting with using links (bibliometrics) as a signal in the first version of Google, has made human behavior a ranking factor. Now, speed and interaction with the search results are becomingContinue Reading
According to Cloudflare, TikTok is now visited more than Google. Behind Google, are Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, YouTube, and WhatsApp, according to the company. Here’s the full list of this year’s top 10 most popular domains: TikTok.com Google.com Facebook.com Microsoft.com Apple.com Amazon.com Netflix.com YouTube.com Twitter.com WhatsApp.com Back in September TikTok saidContinue Reading
Two headlines caught my eye today, and sadly they are related. Meta (the faceless corp. once known as Facebook) took down a large troll farm on Facebook run by Nicaragua’s government. The tale of the troll farm plays out like I would have expected, from Facebook’s report, “We removed a networkContinue Reading
Recently Facebook announced a name change and a bit of a new vision for the company’s future. That new vision, called the metaverse, is really a vision for the internet, not just Facebook. As a concept of a future iteration of the internet, the metaverse made up of shared virtual realityContinue Reading
Facebook has been a busy little beaver this week. It’s just possible the social network, with 2.89 billion users, generated more headlines this week than Dave Chappelle’s extremely overly discussed three-week-old stand-up special. Here’s a bit of a round-up of some of the reason’s the social network made headlines thisContinue Reading
In February 2020, the world seemed to shut down, and it’s reopened and re shut down several times since. With nearly two years of only intermittent access to the real world, it’s not surprising that everything from escape rooms to medical care moved online. Almost every work-related meeting having moved to the internet isContinue Reading
This week Google went down… Well, YouTube, Gmail, and Google Cloud Platform services when down. The outage lasted only a few hours, and it felt a bit like an old video from The Onion where Google shut Gmail down for two hours to show their immense power. The cause of the outageContinue Reading
Twitter announced it plans to once again start taking applications for verification in 2021. While Twitter never really stopped handing out “blue ticks” the company discontinued the open application process in 2017 after being criticized for verifying Jason Kessler, an organizer of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. The company says they plan toContinue Reading