dorking

How to find anything on the internet.

mmhmm

A fresh way to communicate over video in a remote world.

I tracked my Discover feed for 12 days: Here’s what I learned

Google‘s transition from a search to an answer engine.

What is the Small Web?

A vision for our future in the digital and networked age.

The cult of the free must die

Let‘s find a way to overcome the web’s original sin.

Server-side Tagging In Google Tag Manager

The solution might change the landscape of digital analytics.

Ready

A calendar that results in more focus and fewer meetings.

Deviceful

Display your latest digital creations on a device in 3D.

“You are not your job. You are not your job. You are not your job.”

Web by Google (TM)

How far Google has come in capturing the once open web.

Emojis and Accessibility

The dos and don’ts of including emojis in texts and emails.

“A person who feels appreciated will always do more than what is expected.”

Remote | Workers

Hire directly from a global talent pool of remote workers.

User Research Only Covers Users

Why it matters to understand people as people, not as users.

The ecommerce surge

Lockdown’s dramatic impact on ecommerce in 6 charts.

Subscription or no subscription? That is not the question.

Advantages and drawbacks of the popular business model.

Worldwide mobile data pricing

The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries.

Organize your tabs and stay productive in Chrome

New browser features to get more things done.

5 things you didn’t know about Googlebot

What Google’s patents on crawling, rendering, and indexing reveal.

Apple showing signs it may soon launch a search engine

Why Apple might compete against Google Search.

Introducing a new Firefox for Android experience

Fast, personalized and private by design on all platforms.

Autonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWeb

There is an alternative to corporate bubbles online.

Kindle Collects a Surprisingly Large Amount of Data

The Kindle tracks every interaction someone makes while reading.

“Managing a remote team is not the same as managing a work from home team.”

“In many different fields, outsiders overestimate the value of ideas and underestimate the difficulties of execution.”

How People Use Google Search (New User Behavior Study)

Only 9% of searchers make it to the bottom of the first page.

A Search Performance Per Device Dashboard

A way to analyze mobile vs. desktop website search behavior.

Amazon wins FAA approval for Prime Air drone delivery fleet

The e-commerce giant can now begin testing customer deliveries.

Tweet Photo got acquired

How a blog post became an accidental success story.

Tweetagram

Auto generate beautiful visuals from a Tweet.

Copy Analyzer

Analyze your SaaS landing page copy with machine learning.

How to Become a Successful Remote Based Freelancer

Actionable tips and advice.

The SEO Cheat Sheet for Small Businesses

A plan of attack for small businesses without an in-house marketer.

Online Privacy Should Be Modeled on Real-World Privacy

How online ad tracking really works.

Google Says It Is Unlikely Core Web Vitals Will Become The Primary Ranking Factor

This should come as no surprise to most of you.

Visualising SEO

Illustrations explaining SEO terminology and concepts.

“The less you’ve built, the more you’re inclined to critique what’s been built by others.”

“Every story of yourself in the future is a form of fiction. But if it aligns with where you want to go, it’s called a vision.”

How Often Google Ignores Our Meta Descriptions

The relationship between search volume and rewrite rate.

The Sound of Colleagues

Feel like you’re working at the office, not from remote.

3 best practices of competitor SEO you should know

Inspirations to develop your own competitor SEO strategy.

Googlebot will soon speak HTTP/2

However, it won’t affect the crawling budget and indexing of your site.

Intelligent Tracking Prevention In iOS 14, iPadOS 14, And Safari 14

The impact of the changes on analytics and digital marketing.

Make Firefox your default browser on iOS (finally!)

Now you can choose any default browser on iPhones and iPads.

“Are you working on side projects or do you have kids?”

How to earn your place in Google’s index in 2020

What has changed and what you can do about it.

Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes

Both services will no longer be part of Mozilla’s product family.

217 New Emojis In Final List For 2021

Additions include a heart on fire and a woman with a beard.

Long Term Shared Hosting Experiment

The impact of shared hosting on Google rankings.

Blacklight

A real-time privacy inspector to check your favorite websites.

Ahrefs Webmaster Tools

Improve the SEO of your website and get more traffic.

“Being an expert isn’t about knowing the answers. It is about knowing a process to find the answers.”

Make tracking your work easier than ever with Tables

Google introduces Tables, an easy-to-use project tracker.

The High Privacy Cost of a ‘Free’ Website

Why website operators should not blindly embed third parties.

Google Web Creators

A community for web creators to grow and get inspired.

Russia wants to ban the use of secure protocols

The ban is part of a proposed law update.

Wikipedia is getting a new look for the first time in 10 years.

Many changes are coming to Wikipedia’s desktop interface.

Twitter to start testing voice DMs

Facebook and Instagram already allow such audio recordings.

Speed Comparison

Turn a Google Search into a site speed comparison test.

SignalFire’s Creator Economy Market Map

Niche creators are gaining independence from tech giants.

Twitter plans to bring prompts to ‘read before you retweet’ to all users

The prompts worked in experiments, says Twitter.

“It’s so easy to criticize and tear down someone else’s work. Are you tearing down or are you lifting up? Which side are you on?”

“Great ideas come from two places: solitude and conversation.”

Can you Spot the Troll?

Examine images of real social media content.

The Psychology Behind TikTok’s Addictive Feed

A case study.

The QR Code Comeback

There are no bad QR codes, just bad use cases.

State of Gen Z Report

The latest Generation Z cultural trends and shifts.

“Your best marketing copy is sitting in the customer’s mind.”

A quick look at privacy-focused analytics for small sites

Alternative analytics tools for bloggers and freelancers.

Guide for handling online harassment

How we can take care of ourselves and our community.

Free, Privacy-First Analytics for a Better Web

Cloudflare’s new analytics service that’s open to everyone.

“The Tech industry has sold itself on ‘making the world a better place’, so tech leaders probably shouldn’t be surprised when their employees want to do that.”

“You’d be surprised how far you’ll get by just doing what you say you’ll do.”

Unfck the internet

Firefox extensions to fix some annoyances on the internet.

The end of the American internet

Internet regulation is becoming an export industry, worldwide.

A new home for Web Stories on Discover

Google brings visual Web Stories to its discovery feed.

Skill Mapping: A Digital Template for Remote Teams

Visualize skills of UX professionals and UX teams.

Global Privacy Control

A privacy standard proposal to make online privacy accessible to all.

The world does not revolve around your product

How a ‘bettter’ product can work against you.

How Google autocomplete predictions are generated

Where predictions come from and why not all are shown.

Why We’re Moving From Content Strategy to Content Design

Facebook’s new focus on the word ‘design’.

Feds may target Google’s Chrome browser for breakup

US prosecutors are discussing ways to curb Google‘s power.

OpenDeck

Steal inspiration for your next pitch deck.

“Everything is a ‘must-have’ until you run out of time or money.”

Five Eyes governments, India, and Japan make new call for encryption backdoors

The alliance’s latest effort to get tech companies into the boat.

How to debug distributed teamwork

As suggested by new research.

2.1 Million of the Oldest Internet Posts Are Now Online for Anyone to Read

The first browsable archive for early Usenet posts.

Introducing the new Google Analytics

More essential insights with advanced machine learning.

A more expressive Medium: starting with Medium

The popular online publishing platform introduces a new look.

YouTube Dominates Google Video in 2020

It has most video carousel results on Google page one.

A quarter century of hype

25 years of the Gartner Hype Cycle.

“Your brand is the feeling people have when they think of you.”

How Google indexes passages of a page and what it means for SEO

Google starts to index individual passages from the pages.

Hello, RSS

A look at the current state of RSS readers in 2020.

How to Maximize your Pages CTR in Search Results

Besides improving your rankings.

Beyond Best Intentions

You can’t mandate trust, you have to build it.

Don’t just present. Pitch.

Collaborative presentation software for modern teams.

My chatbot is dead

The end of a trend: rest in peace chat bot, long live chat bots.

How to retweet using Twitter’s new temporary format

Don’t worry, you’ll still be able to retweet.

What We Learned From A ‘Google Only’ Marketing Approach

A Google-centric marketing program can provide ongoing lift and benefit.