Multiple Google services experienced a partial outage on Monday, with some users unable to create new documents in Google Docs and Google Sheets. Google’s Workspace Status Dashboard reported that Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Classroom all experienced service disruptions. As of 11:26AM ET Google said that service had been restored for “some users” adding that “we expect a resolution for all users in the near future.” As of 12PM ET, we’ve verified that the issues we were… Source link
Read More »Stocks pull back from record levels
Stocks fell Monday as traders took a pause after the S&P 500 and Dow logged fresh record highs last week. The Dow pulled back slightly, shedding fewer than 100 points to steady just below its recent all-time high. The S&P 500 dipped, and the Nasdaq underperformed as technology stocks gave back some recent gains. For 2021 to date, the cyclical energy and financials sectors have handily outperformed the broader market, overtaking the technology-heavy sectors that led the market higher last… Source link
Read More »If Blocking a Country’s Traffic, Don’t Block Googlebot
Google’s John Mueller advises site owners to be careful not to block Googlebot if they choose to block traffic from an entire country. Mueller addressed this topic twice over the past week. It came up once during the Google Search Central SEO hangout on April 9, and also came up in a Reddit thread. During the Search Central hangout, a site owner submitted a question asking Mueller about blocking a country where they’re receiving an abundance of bot traffic. Here is Mueller’s advice.
Read More »Google Pixel Watch Leaks With Dazzling Looks To Challenge Apple Watch
Is this a glimpse of the Google Pixel Watch? @rendersbyian Google’s Pixel Watch has been rumored for years, but it looks like it’s really happening this time, if the latest leak is real. MORE FROM FORBESiPad Pro 2021: Images Leak Showing Pro & iPad Mini In Spectacular DetailBy David Phelan Tipster Jon Prosser, in a special edition of his Front Page Tech YouTube show (this time FPT stands for Front Pixel Tech), says that he was handed a lot of different images of the… Source link
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MMA Weekly Conor McGregor claims fight with Dustin Poirier is off after Twitter tirade Just weeks after the fight was announced, Conor McGregor is claiming that he is not fighting Dustin Poirier at UFC 264 on July 10. He made the comment in the midst of a Twitter spat between the two fighters. McGregor won the first meeting between the two when he was on the rise to UFC greatness. Poirier more recently won the rematch, setting up a blockbuster bout this summer. The bout could be in trouble… Source link
Read More »Bug in How Google Detects Soft 404s May Be Causing Traffic Losses
Soft 404 Google Soft 404 Bug Citation Google’s John Mueller answered a question about an ongoing problem on Google’s side related to soft 404 error response code and how it’s handled. It’s because of a change on Google’s side. Soft 404 A 404 error response code is a code that is sent by a web page to the web browser or to Google informing them that the page they were looking for no longer exists. Advertisement Continue Reading Below A server response code known as a 200 Response Code is a… Source link
Read More »Google’s secret ‘Project Bernanke’ revealed in Texas antitrust case
Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. Google for years operated a secret program that used data from past bids in the company’s digital advertising exchange to allegedly give its own ad-buying system an advantage over competitors, according to court documents filed in a Texas antitrust lawsuit. The program, known as “Project Bernanke,” wasn’t disclosed to publishers who sold ads through Google’s ad-buying systems. It generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for the… Source link
Read More »Google Shares the Most Recent Conversion Tracking Proposals
First-Party vs Third-Party Cookies The Most Recent Measurement Proposals Tracking View-Through Conversions Tracking Cross-Device Conversions Keeping Up To Date With FLoC Earlier this year, Google announced that it would not build or use alternative identifiers to track users in replacement of third-party cookies, which are set to be phased out by 2022. Instead, Google has moved forward with testing Federated Learning Cohorts (FLoC), with the goal of anonymizing individual data within larger… Source link
Read More »What Warren Buffett said about the ‘Buffett Indicator’: Morning Brief
TipRanks 3 Monster Growth Stocks With More Room to Run For investors looking for a hint as to policy-makers’ view of the economy, the Federal Reserve has come through. The central bank released the minutes of its most recent policy meeting – at which it decided not to raise interest rates or scale back on its easy-money polices – and the inside look at the Fed committee’s deliberations shows that the decision was broad-based. The Fed is in no hurry to move to a tighter money policy,… Source link
Read More »Stocks Retreat After S&P 500 Record; Yields Steady: Markets Wrap
(Bloomberg) — Futures followed stocks lower Monday as investors braced for a flood of earnings amid doubts about an uneven economic recovery. U.S. equity futures slipped across the board following a third straight week of gains and fresh records for the S&P 500 Index. In Europe, retailers and travel companies led declines on the Stoxx Europe 600 Index. The yield on 10-year Treasuries steadied before a round of auctions that will be widely watched for their potential to extend the rate surge… Source link
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