Indiana University has hired former Atlanta Hawks and New York Knicks coach Mike Woodson as head coach. The program announced the news Sunday afternoon, confirming multiple reports from earlier in the day. Stadium’s Jeff Goodman reports that Woodson had been in the mix for the job since it opened and became a priority for Indiana after Boston Celtics head coach Brad Stevens and Ohio State head coach Chris Holtmann turned it down. The position opened on March 15 when Indiana fired Archie Miller…. Source link

Google tried to copy Amazon’s playbook to become the shopping hub of the internet, with little success. Now it is trying something different: the anti-Amazon strategy. Google is trying to present itself as a cheaper and less restrictive option for independent sellers. And it is focused on driving traffic to sellers’ sites, not selling its own version of products, as Amazon does. In the last year, Google eliminated fees for… Source link

MMA Weekly Francis Ngannou wants to fight Jon Jones, despite Dana White’s doubts After knocking out Stipe Miocic in the second round to win the UFC heavyweight championship at UFC 260, Francis Ngannou spoke to the media at the post-fight press conference about what could be next for his career. Earlier in the evening at the press conference, UFC president Dana White said he was 100-percent willing to make a title fight between Ngannou and Jon Jones. But White also expressed doubt that Jones… Source link

Google’s John Mueller says there’s no benefit to having an artificially flat URL structure compared to one that shows directory depth. The number of slashes in a URL is by no means an indicator of how important a page is, or how likely Google is to surface the page in search results. This topic is discussed during the Google Search Central SEO hangout recorded on March 26. A site owner submits a question about URL structure asking Mueller his thoughts on short URLs versus URLs that show… Source link

The Los Angeles Lakers have their new big man. Free agent center Andre Drummond is planning to sign with the Lakers on Sunday, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, one day after officially agreeing to a contract buyout with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Drummond will be eligible to officially sign when he clears waivers at 5 p.m. ET on Sunday. Drummond’s tenure with the Cavaliers came to an end shortly after the trade deadline, when teams declined to acquire the big man on his $28 million salary…. Source link

Search Advocate John Mueller stresses that Google is most concerned with expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness (E-A-T) when ranking content that deals with health & finance. This topic is discussed at length during the Google Search Central SEO hangout recorded on March 26. Ritu Nagarkoti, who does SEO for a medical ecommerce site, asks Mueller for advice on tactics that can be used to increase traffic and visibility. Mueller says a medical ecommerce store likely falls into the… Source link

What goes up must come down, as we all know. This fact of physics is the underlying worry of the stock market, that fuels our suspicions of bubbles. But investment firm Goldman Sachs doesn’t believe we should worry; the firm’s chief global equity strategist Peter Oppenheimer gives several reasons to expect that the market’s current upward trend is real. His key points include the equity risk premium, the real profits realized by the Big Tech giants, and the high savings rate of US… Source link

undefined Traders are heading into a packed week of economic reports, with a surfeit of new information on the state of the U.S. labor market set to be released. One of the most closely watched prints will be Friday’s March jobs report from the Labor Department. Equity investors will have a couple of days to digest the results, however, as the stock market will be closed on Friday in observance of Good Friday. The March jobs report is expected to be the first this year to show meaningful… Source link

The IRS is under serious stress — what does that mean for your refund? If you’ve ever had trouble staying on top of your paperwork, you’re probably still doing great compared to the IRS. Along with a serious backlog of unprocessed returns and yet more stimulus checks to send out, the tax agency is now under the microscope for their falling audit rates as it struggles to keep up with its increased workload. As Biden considers big tax hikes, a new report is putting a spotlight on how the… Source link

Adam Kovacevich Source: AdamKovacevich.com Source: AdamKovacevich.com A new technology industry group led by the former head of U.S. public policy at Alphabet Inc.’s Google is looking to remind Democrats that technology companies are on their side when it comes to progressive priorities like voting rights, fighting climate change and reducing income… Source link