The very first trailer of superhero movie The Wolverine was released yesterday through a tweaser on Twitter via Vine The tweaser was tweeted by the director of the movie James Mangold. This is a big leap from the current modern sources of releasing a trailer like movie's website and YouTube. It seems as if the Hollywood has also realized that nothing leaves the people craving for more like a 6 second long Vine Video.
Pinterest has rolled out a new design, which it had been testing since January. Pinterest is amongst the fastest growing social media website for sharing and collecting photos, news and other stories from around the web.
The purpose of the redesign is to make it easier for the users to navigate from one page to another. Also, much greater stress has been given on content discovery. The redesign aims at increasing the on-site time of every Pinterest User.
What if a website is down for a couple of days and loses its Google ranking? Matt Cutts has come up with a comprehensive answer on a recently uploaded Google Webmaster Help video.
YouTube has announced that their search are now a part of Google Trends. To try YouTube Trends search, visit Google Trends, enter a search keyword, on the search result page select “YouTube” under the “limit to” option on the left. That will provide you with the current search trend of the keyword on YouTube search.
The latest webmaster help video by Matt Cutts, Head of Search Spam Team at Google, focuses on the need for text to index content on the website. Matt Cutts answers a question regarding the importance of text in getting Google to index the site. The per son who has asked the question has a website that has mainly image content, and informs that users like it much better, the bounce rate is lowered and the conversion rate is higher.
In May 2012 Bing added the “Snapshot” feature to its search which allowed users to get answers at a glance in the middle column of the Bing search result page. Dr. Richard Qian, a significant member of the Bing team explains that this feature has been, “designed to develop deep understanding of the world around us not only as a collection of entities (people, places and things) but also the relationships between those entities. Inside the Bing engineering team, we call this technology Satori, which means understanding in Japanese.”
Dave Cohen, an Engineer at Google, announced on Google+ that a new search filter introduced in Google+ allows users to search for just photos. To use this filter, first a user has to type in the search keywords, hit the search button and then select “Photos” from the dropdown filter.
Webmasters have always relied upon the ability of Google Webmaster Tools to keep themselves updated with detailed reports about the visibility of their websites on Google. It has provided them with detailed information regarding link as well as query traffic. This system has provided the webmasters with an easy understanding of how Google's indexing method works. Now this system has been upgraded to increase ease of management for webmasters.
Twitter has turned 7 years old and to mark the special occasion it has released the following special video. The video features many significant moments in the growth of the service such as the first tweet, hashtags as well as launch of retweets.
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