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How To Get The Best Search Results
As pervasive as Google has become for almost everybody, there are still a few tricks you can use, to make sure that Google can give you the result you're looking for. According to…
Google Ad Practices Under Investigation
Heading toward the end of a year which has no doubt proven trying for practically all of the online "giants," Google, perhaps the biggest of all, is facing yet another anti-trust…
Google Terminates Controversial Chinese Project
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this month, Karan Bhatia, Google's VP of Public Policy, admitted that the company's controversial plan to re-launch its search…
Google Core Update June 2019 - Search Relevance
The latest update to the core Google algorithm began rolling out this month, and has been classified as a "broad" update. In effect, broad updates mean that Google has no…
YouTube Tips
With around 2 billion active users, YouTube is one of the most popular and widely used online platforms in existence, and it is just as popular in SA as anywhere else, with more…
Google My Business Update
Up until recently, the Google My Business (formerly known as Google Business Listings) dashboard only showed your address when you went to edit it, and not a map showing where…
20 Years Of Google
20 years ago this month, and two years after it was launched internally at Stanford University by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google was officially incorporated as a company. At…
Google & Mastercard In Deal To Track Retail Sales
Everybody knows that tracking conversions is one of the most important part of your online business. We go to a lot of trouble to accurately identify the source of leads and sales…
Gmail Uses AI To Help You Save Time
If you're a regular Gmail user, you might have already seen how Google is using their AI to help save you time when it comes to answering your emails if you've been using their…
YouTube Go Launched In South Africa
A new YouTube app, specially designed to be and offline-first option that reduces the (often heavy) data load of the traditional YouTube, has launched in South Africa. According…
Google Faces Biggest Anti-Trust Fine Ever
In Europe's biggest ever anti-trust claim, Google is facing a potential US$ 5 Billion fine for anti-competitive practices relating to their use of the mobile Android operating…
Google Rebrands Advertising Products
Yesterday, almost 18 years after launching their Google Ads platform to allow businesses to advertise in their search engine results, Google announced that they will be…