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Taxpayers are flocking to the IRS website to check their refund status as filing season reaches the one-month countdown. Nearly 380 million taxpayers visited the agency’s website last week, an 18% increase over the same week last year, according to the tax agency’s latest statistics. After landing on the official agency website, taxpayers are heading straight to the Where’s My Refund? tool. This is nothing unexpected, says an IRS spokesperson, as people search for the status of refunds… Source link

On a recent episode of Ask Googlebot, Google Search Advocate John Mueller discussed a concern many small business owners have. Businesses often work on launching a new website while still running their old site. Mueller was asked if owners must delete the old site when the new one goes live. Here’s what he advises. Navigating The Transition From Old To New Websites Mueller stressed the need to remove or update the outdated website since leaving contradictory information online could… Source link

Despite being knocked off the top spot by TikTok back in late 2021, Google soon reclaimed its title as the most popular domain on the internet, and if the past is anything to go by, it doesn’t seem set to give it up anytime soon. According to Cloudfare Radar’s popularity rankings, Google and its offshoots dominate amongst an overall unsurprising list of sites. Top 10 most popular domains (as of January 6,… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Microsoft patent on website and site content reliability scores for …  Search Engine Land Source link

Enlarge / After you press the “buy tickets” button, the Google Assistant takes over. Google Google kills product View more stories Google is shutting down a rather obscure project: Google Duplex on the Web. “Duplex” is Google’s branding for AI that does “simple but familiar tasks that saves you time.” The branding exists on two products: this “web” feature and Google’s human-impersonating voice AI, the… Source link

In the eyes of the world’s top chess player, 19-year-old chess grandmaster Hans Niemann is a cheater. The world’s top chess website apparently agrees. An investigation conducted by Chess.com into the cheating allegations against Niemann found the American to have cheated in more than 100 games on the platform until he was banned in 2020, according to a report from the site published Tuesday. Niemann has been under fire since world chess champion Magnus Carlsen accused him of cheating in an… Source link

Alex Kantrowitz Elon Musk appeared to indicate “X.com” could become a Twitter competitor. Musk bought the domain name in 2017 from PayPal as it had “sentimental value.” Twitter is attempting to force Musk to buy the social media company in court for $44 billion. Elon Musk teased a possible Twitter competitor if he isn’t forced to go through with the $44 billion deal. Musk responded to a question on Twitter as to whether he’d launch his own site by simply tweeting “X.com” on Tuesday. The comment… Source link

Google has released a browser version of its “Read Along” Android app. The website, while still in beta, is up and running now. The site includes hundreds of illustrated stories at a few different reading levels. Once kids select a story, they start reading into their device’s microphone. Words are highlighted in blue after they’ve read them, and mispronounced words are underlined in red; click an underlined word, and a virtual assistant, Diya, will pronounce it for you. … Source link

Google has launched a website for its Read Along app for encouraging young children to practice reading. The website, which is introduced as a public beta, works with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge browsers on Desktop and Android, with support for iOS and more browsers such as Safari coming soon. The concept of the website is similar to the app: children can learn to speak languages like English, Portuguese, Spanish, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, and… Source link

Google addresses whether the changing your website hosting provider to one in a new location can impact SEO and search rankings. This topic is addressed in the latest installment of the Ask Googlebot video series on YouTube. The following question is submitted to Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller: “Does migrating a website hosting location affect SEO? E.g. an Australian website (and target audience) migrating its hosting location from Australia to US.” In response, Mueller says… Source link