Will Google Home Hub ever become a useful local search tool?

Smart speakers have boomed in popularity. Amazon recently reported that its Echo Dot was the best selling product globally during “cyber weekend.” We don’t yet know how smart displays are doing, though Google’s Home Hub has probably sold well. According to a product listing on eBay, the Google Home Hub is the top-selling product in its […]
‘No-Click’ Search Queries Make GMB & Proximity Even More Important

The identification of the “no-click” search queries and the frequency with which it is happening is sending waves throughout the SEO community. New data from Rand Fishkin of SparkToro (formerly of Moz) has found that roughly 62% of mobile queries resulted in no click in Q3 2018 and about 33% on desktop. SEO experts were aware […]
Top 36 SEO Insights of the Year from Google’s John Mueller

For the uninitiated, Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst John Muellergenerously runs Hangouts every other week where SEO professionals can get their burning questions answered. In 2018 alone, Mueller has provided us with hundreds of noteworthy answers that continue to inform our understanding of SEO. Read more.
Morgan Stanley Chooses Yext Brain to Manage Financial Advisors’ Digital Knowledge

Yext, Inc. (NYSE: YEXT), the leader in Digital Knowledge Management (DKM), today announced it has been selected by Morgan Stanley to put its financial advisors in control of the information about them across the web. Morgan Stanley will leverage the Yext platform to create and manage financial advisors’ business pages and presence across maps, apps, […]
EU: New EDPB Guidelines on the territorial scope of the GDPR

DLA Piper On 26 November 2018, the WP29’s successor, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published Guidelines on the territorial scope of the GDPR (Art… https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=c0145975-83b0-460f-ad15-9a1c6e6beb0d
Vendasta awarded $3.3 million in federal funding to advance global expansion efforts

November 28, 2018 (Saskatoon, CANADA) – Vendasta is honoured to be the recipient of a $3.3 million interest free loan to support the company’s expansion to international markets. The announcement was made this morning at Vendasta headquarters in downtown Saskatoon by the Honourable James Gordon Carr, Minister of International Trade Diversification on behalf of the Honourable Navdeep […]
BELGIUM: Belgian DPA provides first status update after six months of GDPR

DLA Piper The Belgian DPA has released a first status update six months after the GDPR became applicable. Some interesting statistics relate to the number of… https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=a519b779-a180-4996-91eb-ec2f9d7ff208
WordPress Exploit in GDPR Plugin Puts 100,000 Websites at Risk

More than 100,000 websites were affected by a vulnerability in a WordPress plugin that was designed to help site owners comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Researchers from Wordfence also reported evidence of attacks in which malicious third parties installed their own administrator accounts on various sites. Though the full scope of how […]
French Data Protection Authority CNIL warns against GDPR scams

The CNIL, French Data Protection Authority, has issued a notice guidance in French to warn SMEs against GDPR abusive advisory scams that are flourishing with the entry into force of GDPR.
Study: 70% Have Tried Voice Commands, but Only 33% Use Them Daily

In recent years, voice search has emerged as a convenient and useful technology for consumers within their daily lives. However, despite reports that smart speaker ownership is projected to reach 76.5 million in 2020, many consumers are hesitant to utilize voice commands regularly, according to recent data from Social Lens Research. The study revealed that 70% have […]