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Are you planning to close your website for a day or longer? According to advice from Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller, here are five ways to prepare. Mueller shares this advice in tweets while linking to relevant Google help pages. Spoiler alert — there’s no good way to close a website temporarily. You should avoid doing it if at all possible. However, there are things you can do to keep the negative impact to a minimum. Mueller’s recommendations include: Use HTTP 503 status… Source link

NEW YORK — Venerable internet portal Yahoo.com has won the People’s Choice Webby Award for “Best Site to Check to See If Your Internet Is Working Again,” a spokesperson for the awards organization announced. “It is a great honor to present this award to Yahoo, who has reliably been there for decades to let us know that yes, we can resume surfing the internet after an outage,” stated Phillis Dowell, spokesperson for the Webby Awards. “Yahoo.com narrowly beat out contenders… Source link

Japan’s largest internet auction site will ban individuals from offering rare or endangered species, along with many other species that could potentially disrupt the ecosystem. Yafuoku’s (Yahoo Japan Corp.’s Yahoo Auctions) prohibition will begin from Sept. 29 and cover about 4,000 species, including the “ookuwagata” (Japanese stag beetle) and killifish, which are currently not banned by law for sale. “I expect (the Yahoo move) will lead to… Source link

A federal jury awarded $16 million to Vanessa Bryant, widow of Kobe Bryant, in a lawsuit against Los Angeles County over the alleged distribution of photos from the Los Angeles Lakers legend’s crash site, according to Alene Tchekmedyian of the Los Angeles Times. Another plaintiff, Chris Chester, was awarded $15 million in the same lawsuit. The payouts reportedly have the L.A. Sheriff’s Department paying Bryant $2.5 million for emotional distress and $7.5 million for future suffering, while the… Source link

Russian search giant Yandex has finalized the sale of its two flagship media properties to local rival VK, owner of the eponymous social network. The deal to sell the products, Yandex’s algorithmically sorted news aggregator (News) and blogging recommender platform (Zen), was inked back in April. But today’s binding agreement goes further than that — also including the sale of the main page, Yandex.ru, which integrates content from News and Zen into the search page, turning it… Source link

Russian search giant Yandex has finalized the sale of its two flagship media properties to local rival VK, owner of the eponymous social network. The deal to sell the products, Yandex’s algorithmically sorted news aggregator (News) and blogging recommender platform (Zen), was inked back in April. But today’s binding agreement goes further than that — also including the sale of the main page, Yandex.ru, which integrates content from News and Zen into the search page, turning it… Source link

Enlarge / Just a few of the many Google messaging logos. Can you name them all? Ron Amadeo Google has been unable to field a stable, competitive messaging platform for years and has thoroughly lost the messaging war to products with a long-term strategy. At least some divisions inside the company are waking up to how damaging this is to Google as a company, and now Google’s latest strategy is to… beg its competition… Source link

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (WOWT) – Three people were burned in an electrical incident at a Google facility on Monday. The Council Bluffs Fire Department was called to the Google data center, located north of Highway 275, at about noon. A spokesman told 6 News that they received a report of an electrical explosion after three people were accessing an electrical box when an arc occurred. All three sustained burns and were transported to a trauma center. Copyright 2022 WOWT. All rights reserved. Source link

With changes coming to cookie tracking, marketers need to ensure that they’re updating their approach to digital tagging, in order to track performance as best they can through the latest processes and tools. For this purpose, Google has continued to improve its Tag Manager platform by adding in more types of available tagging options to help you keep track of your program in one centralized space. And now, Google’s adding a new Google tag update, which will enable marketers to utilize… Source link

Tom Forte bought a desk made from recycled skateboards on Etsy (ETSY) during the pandemic, then a matching stool. What’s unusual about Forte isn’t that he bought something on the site — 96 million people did that last year. What’s unusual is his gender. Forte’s familiar with Etsy in part because he’s an analyst at D.A. Davidson who covers the stock. But the company’s own 2020 research found that 50% of male-identified customers in the U.S. weren’t even aware the company… Source link