Barry Schechter

Nearly 20 years ago, the Yahoo Directory was born. With a hand-compiled list of websites, it was something revolutionary for its time, and was certainly the industry leader for a number of years. The only site to overtake Yahoo! has been Google. Yahoo's announcement reflects the end of the web directory era.


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Google is constantly introducing more personalized features across its products and maps is no different. Now with the upgraded My maps, you can also share routes and destinations with the public, and get some inspiration from other people's maps! 

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In June we reported that Google was dropping the images from Authorship results. This showed that Google was definitely moving away from authorship, so it is no surprise that now the entire authorship result has been removed. 

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Google is changing the SERP's look by removing the image showing who the author of the article is. The new results will remove the image as well as the number of Google+ circles the author is in. This means that only the author's name will appear, but it will still be a clickable link to take you to a search for the author.

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It's World Cup time and Google has the fever! As always Google is ahead of the curve, making tomorrow's trends easily accessible today, and today they're bringing you the World Cup directly to your smartphone, tablet or PC so that even if you're not in Brazil, you won't miss out on the action. 

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