Google’s John Mueller advises site owners that deleting a sitemap won’t prevent URLs from being crawled in the future. This topic is discussed in the latest episode of the Ask Googlebot video series on YouTube. Mueller addresses a question asking if it’s possible to turn off or delete a sitemap from Google Search Console. Deleting a sitemap is possible, and it’s not hard to do either, but if the intention is to stop Googlebot from crawling the URLs then site owners will have to employ a… Source link
Read More »Google adds key piece of downtown San Jose village puzzle – East Bay Times
SAN JOSE — Google has added a key piece to the puzzle it is assembling for the land to develop a new transit-oriented neighborhood in downtown San Jose. The tech titan has bought a church site at 56 S. Montgomery St. in downtown San Jose, paying about $11.7 million in cash for the property, according to documents filed on May 28 with Santa Clara County officials. Google has been assembling properties and gaining approvals from city officials for a mixed-use neighborhood called Downtown… Source link
Read More »The economy will probably overheat this summer: top strategist
With the U.S. labor market likely to bounce back strongly this summer from a surprisingly tepid April showing, the risks of an overheating economy remain on the rise. “I do think there is a very good chance it [economy] will overheat,” said Jefferies Chief Financial Economist Aneta Markowska on Yahoo Finance Live. “I expect us to reach a roughly 3% unemployment rate by the end of next year.” As Yahoo Finance’s Brian Cheung explains in the latest edition of Yahoo U, there is no official… Source link
Read More »Google union pushes company to drop deadnames from ID badges
The Alphabet Workers Union launched a campaign Tuesday to push Google to allow employees to use their chosen names on ID badges. The move comes after Phares Lee, a transgender man who works at a Google data center in South Carolina and is employed by security subcontracting firm G4S, asked to have his deadname removed from his badge and was denied. Lee came out as transgender during his initial interview with G4S. “I was assured [Google] was inclusive, yet when I asked about a badge in… Source link
Read More »Bitcoin price crash leaves only one good course of action for believers: strategist
TipRanks 2 Big Dividend Stocks Yielding 7%; Analysts Say ‘Buy’ Let’s talk about defending your portfolio. It’s a common impulse for most investors, when the economy starts to turn sour. We’re in a growth phase now, with economic activity rebounding strongly from the corona-crisis shutdowns, and with reopening getting into full stride, economists are predicting up to 8% GDP expansion this year. But there are clouds on the horizon. Inflation is rising, and the April jobs report was,… Source link
Read More »Best and worst performances from May
With our calendars having flipped to June, this is the perfect time to recap some of the best and worst performances from the month of May. There should be some nuggets in this article that shape your lineup and streaming decisions as we start June action. Top offenses (May OPS in brackets) Blue Jays (.813), Astros (.786), Red Sox (.771): These are your lineups to avoid at the moment. Some observers will say that Blue Jays will flounder when they shift from Dunedin to Buffalo, but I don’t… Source link
Read More »Petra Kvitova withdraws after injuring ankle at press conference
After winning just one match, bad luck has ended Petra Kvitova’s time at the French Open. The Czech tennis player announced on Tuesday that she’s withdrawing from Roland-Garros due to a freak ankle injury she sustained on Sunday during her post-match media conference. “It is with great disappointment that I announce my withdrawal from Roland Garros. During my post-match press requirements on Sunday I fell and hurt my ankle. Unfortunately, after an MRI and much discussion with my team, I have… Source link
Read More »The Intense Drama of My Early 2000s Ewan McGregor Yahoo Group
In honor of the 20th anniversary of Baz Luhrmann’s masterpiece Moulin Rouge!, I want to take you back to 2001. I grew up in the middle of nowhere Northern California. And when I say “middle of nowhere,” I mean that my parents had to drive 100 miles into a town in Oregon just so I could be born because my hometown hospital was not equipped to perform C-sections. Like many youths, I struggled to connect my fellow teens. I just had nothing in common with the people I went to high school… Source link
Read More »LaMarcus Aldridge details ‘scariest night ever’ that led him to suddenly retire
It was a stunner when 35-year-old LaMarcus Aldridge announced his retirement in April after a 15-year career. He’d been playing great basketball and was part of a Brooklyn Nets team that was destined to make waves in the playoffs. With all that in his favor, it wasn’t a decision he reached lightly. Aldridge played his entire career with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, a heart condition that can cause a rapid or irregular heartbeat. He’d had it under control for years, but as he told The… Source link
Read More »Stocks rise as S&P 500 nears record high
TipRanks 3 ‘Strong Buy’ Stocks with 100% Upside Potential Every stock investor wants a strong return; that’s axiomatic, it’s why people get into the stock market to begin with. But the markets are inherently risky, and finding the sweet spot – the right combination of risk and reward – seems as much an art as a science. You can use science, however, to minimize the risk. We’re talking about statistical science, the study of numbers, their patterns, and the relationships between… Source link
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