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Clubhouse adds Universal Search, Clips beta

Clubhouse has added a universal search function to the app and is testing a Clips feature that lets users share chatroom recordings. The social…

How user intent influences SEO success

If user intent is still not something that you are including in your SEO strategy, you are missing out on the chance to convert…

Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters tops US Google Search after Tebow engagement

On Thursday former NFL player Tim Tebow announced his engagement to South Africa’s former Miss Universe Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters. Tebow broke the news on Instagram…

Future Google Search will answer questions you haven’t even asked yet

This year googlegle celebrated its 20 year milestone. Now it seems to be looking forward to the next 20 in the form of Google…

Nambia vs Namibia: how a fictional country became more popular than a real one

You can always trust US President Donald Trump to say something controversial, whether it be on Twitter, or at the UN General Assembly. But…

Kansas City Diaries: the art of organic search

Kansas City Diaries is an exclusive article series by Natalie Pool as she goes undercover at VML’s global agency headquarters in Kansas City, USA,…

Google Pixel is a physical search bar, according to ad

Google doesn’t do subtle any more. Sure, Google Tricks weren’t exactly marks of elegance, nor are the coy names for its Google Pixel smartphones’…

4 technologies that are rapidly changing online search habits

The traditional search via desktop browser has been on the decline since advent of the iPhone a decade ago. Currently, a typical mobile user…

Google sees biggest traffic drop in five years as Yahoo grows

Recent numbers by StatCounter show that Yahoo has achieved remarkable growth in the last month while Google’s search traffic dropped. In the US at…

Yahoo will become the default search engine for Firefox in the US

Firefox just dumped Google for Yahoo. After celebrating its 10 year anniversary earlier this month, Mozilla flaunted new initiatives to further its vision of…

Penalised by Google? Here are 3 steps to righting that

So you pushed the limits in terms of link building — you built links to your site that weren’t exactly squeaky clean or natural….

We’re all using Google less for search… and it’s petrified of that

Billionaire Mark Cuban — who famously sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo at the very peak of the original dotcom bubble — asks in a blog…

Hey tech optimists, we need a little activism for the unmonitored self

Historians will look back at the past 20 years as a unique period, a time when there was great opportunity to see deep into…

Google to let you check flight statuses, package info in the near future

If you want to know whether your flight is delayed or where exactly that package you ordered a few days ago is, you could…

Self-driving cars: Google’s greatest act of obfuscation?

It’s remarkable how few journalists understand Google’s business and how what it does or doesn’t do affects massive volumes of commerce around the globe….

Gatfol: Google, Yahoo! and Bing are OK, we can make them better

Search engines get you the results you want 80% of the time. That’s according to a South African startup called Gatfol (pronounced Gat fole,…

The story behind Google’s search algorithms

The SEO industry has been thriving for a number of years, thanks to the fact that search ranking algorithms are constantly evolving and Google’s…

Blekko — The future of search

On the eve of Google’s launch of an experimental feature that allows users to recommend search results, Blekko, the curated search engine, hosted a…

Do no evil? The Google & JC Penney controversy

We usually associate black hat Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) tactics with spammy sites selling get rich quick guides, or porn, or any other slightly…

The quest for the perfect search result

Head of Google South Africa, Stephen Newton, shares a few thoughts on where search is going and why the user is the ultimate winner…

Google rolls out real-time search in South Africa

Google on Friday announced that the real-time search features it rolled out internationally last year will now be available on its South African search…

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Alitheia IDF leads $11m investment round in SweepSouth

Samsung’s S22 ultra: Zoom in so close you can whisper to the referee

Vivo launches V25e, a vlogger’s dream

Vivo launches the V25 5G with colour changing back

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