[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex ‘leak’ reveals 1922 search ranking factors  Search Engine Land Source link

A former employee allegedly leaked a Yandex source code repository, part of which contained more than 1,900 factors the search engines uses for ranking search results. Why we care. This leak has revealed 1,922 ranking factors Yandex used in its search algorithm, at least as of July 2022. Perhaps Martin MacDonald put it best on Twitter today: “The Yandex hack is probably the most interesting thing to have happened in SEO in years.” Yandex is… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Racial slurs discovered in leaked Yandex source code  CyberScoop Source link

Yahoo is working with AWS as a preferred public cloud provider for its advertising technology business Yahoo Ad Tech. All Yahoo advertising technology workloads — including its media-buying and supply-side platforms, analytics, and identity solutions and products — are being switched from Yahoo on-premises data centers to AWS as part of an ongoing digital transformation strategy,  according to AWS last month. The goal is to reduce IT infrastructure costs, transform advertising… Source link

Intel (INTC) CEO Pat Gelsinger pushed back on the notion that his company’s turnaround struggles would spell the end of its coveted dividend payout. “We are committed to the dividend and to a very healthy and competitive dividend,” Gelsinger said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “We’re also making big long-term strategic investments, so we’re putting all of that together and looking very carefully at the capital allocation priorities for the company overall, even as we remain committed to… Source link

Russian tech giant Yandex apologized on Friday for racial slurs uncovered in the company’s source code. The apology came in response to the discovery of multiple references to the N-word in the company’s code base after it leaked online. “We deeply regret that this word ever appeared in our internal codes,” the Yandex press office told CyberScoop in an email Friday. A researcher who goes by the name “Wacky Fruit” on Twitter posted screenshots Thursday showing the use… Source link

Google Docs has become a very useful word processing tool — a lot better than it was only a few years ago — but some of its more useful features may not be immediately obvious. For example, you would think that all the ways available to provide specialized text, such as underlining, italicizing, and strikethroughs, should be easy to find among the icons on the top of the page. While the icons to bold, italicize, underline, and highlight text are right on top of your document and very… Source link

Bed Bath & Beyond is cleaving off an arm in an effort to conserve cash in what could be its final hours. A source told Yahoo Finance the company informed workers on Thursday that all of its Harmon brand stores would be closed as the embattled retailer continues on its downward trend. Harmon — which mostly focuses on the sale of beauty products — operated about 52 stores in six states, according to the company’s most recent annual report. A store employee at at NYC location told Yahoo… Source link

An impressive new AI system from Google can generate music in any genre given a text description. But the company, fearing the risks, has no immediate plans to release it. Called MusicLM, Google’s certainly isn’t the first generative AI system for song. There have been other attempts, including Riffusion, an AI that composes music by visualizing it, as well as Dance Diffusion, Google’s own AudioML and OpenAI’s Jukebox. But owing to technical limitations and limited training… Source link

Tesla (TSLA) stock is jumping for a second day as investors and analysts continue to break down what was revealed during Tesla’s Q4 earnings report. While Tesla beat on both the top and bottom lines, CEO Elon Musk’s comments during the conference call really piqued investors’ interest. One of the juiciest nuggets: Following price cuts in January of this year, Musk said the company had seen the “strongest orders year to date ever in our history.” Gary Black, noted Tesla investor and Future… Source link