Yesterday the iPhone officially had its 15th birthday. Does that make you feel old? In 2007, when it was introduced, Steve Jobs called it a “revolutionary product” (keynote below). There’s probably no one who would dispute that. Mobile devices are the primary screen and internet access vehicle for most people…

Part 1 Video Starts 0:13 — Does NFT funded Golf Course point to a crowd sourced model for funding of startups?

Part 2 Video- Starts 8:29 — Can Google ever compete in product search with Amazon? What would it take?

Part 3 Video- Starts 17:55 — American’s distrust of…

For the longest time it seemed like search engines and browsers built around privacy would have almost no impact, unable to wrest meaningful share from more established companies (read: Google). “People don’t care enough about privacy to change their behavior,” was the common refrain. But the recent growth of Brave…

Despite a resurgent pandemic, US consumers still shopped a lot in the run up to Xmas. According to data from MasterCard, total holiday retail spending grew 8.5% year-over-year, while e-commerce notched 11.0% growth. Compared with the same period in 2019, online shopping was up 61.4%. Overall, e-commerce captured 21% of…

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• While consumer review sites police fake reviews, they do so unevenly and often with seeming ambivalence.
• That’s because the business owner/advertiser is their customer not the consumer, who is ultimately hurt by fake reviews.
• With LSAs, Google is now directly monetizing fake reviews because they help generate leads, which the…

Part 1 Video Starts 0:13 — Google Rolls out bigger, brighter Local Pack with more visuals

Part 2 Video- Starts 8:14 — Yelp Survey says consumers prefer text reviews

Part 3 Video- Starts 13:43 — SOCI Report: Local Guides dominate Google review landscape but leave shorter reviews

Reference Articles

1. Google rolling…

Google recently confirmed that it completed a local algorithm update, between November 30 and December 8. Many local SEOs reported “significant” ranking changes. Joy Hawkins at SterlingSky characterized it as “the biggest change I have seen to the local SERPs” since 2017. According to Joy’s preliminary research there are two…