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Online retail searches boom in Q4 2012, led by massive smartphone and tablet growth
Smartphones and tablets are changing how people shop for goods and services. More than ever, consumers have near constant access to information from their mobile devices. This global trend opens up new opportunities for businesses to influence purchasing decisions — at anytime or place, at home or on the go.
“The latest BRC-Google Online Retail Monitor for Q4 2012 finds that retail searches on tablets and smartphones are growing rapidly, with tablet searches of retailers up by a whopping 238% and smartphones up 76% year on year – faster than any other device or channel. Continue reading
US Military to install Laser Turrets on Bombers and Fighters
What has previously been a thing of science fiction, the US military are going to install solid-state lasers into combat aeroplanes. The lasers are designed to protect the aircraft by shooting incoming threats such as surface-to-air missiles.
http://gizmodo.com/5978740/us-military-to-install-laser-turrets-in-combat-airplanes
WordPress mobile App Review
WordPress is the most popular open source blogging software out there. People are starting to use their mobiles more, and their desktop computers less. As a result, WordPress has also developed some mobile apps to support the blogging platform.
http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/111422/app-review-wordpress-for-ios-and-android/
Zombies Vs Penguins
Zombies Vs Penguins is a small flash game where your goal is to shoot the zombies. You have to bounce your bullets off walls and around corners to take out the target providing some nice light Friday afternoon entertainment.
http://www.addictinggames.com/funny-games/zombies-vs-penguins-game.jsp
HTML Meta Tags & Search Engines
HTML is the underlying code used to create web pages. Search engines can pick up ranking signals from specific HTML elements. Below, some of the most important HTML tags you should pay attention to.
Title Tag
Imagine that you wrote 100 different books but gave them all the same exact title. How would anyone understand that they are all about different topics?
Google Update Downgrades Keyword Domains
Last year saw the announcement of the Google EMD update which was geared towards removing low quality exact match domains in the search results. Despite insisting that only 0.6 of English and U.S. queries would be noticeably affected, large numbers of webmasters are adamant they are suffering as a result of both the EMD update and the latest Panda algorithm update.