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Meta’s Progress Implementing the Digital Services Act

Since the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) came into force, we have been working hard to adapt our long-standing safety and integrity systems and processes in the areas regulated by the DSA. In 2023, we assembled a cross-functional team cons...

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28 Nov 2024

Transform your debugging experience with GitHub Copilot

Are your unit tests failing, and do you want to debug them more effectively? The latest feature in Visual Studio 2022, powered by GitHub Copilot, has the perfect solution for you. Introducing the Debug with Copilot button in Test Explorer, this feature takes the hassle out of debugging failed tests and gets you closer to […]
The post Transform your debugging experience with GitHub Copilot appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

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28 Nov 2024

Build Your Website with WordPress.com and Save on Black Friday

Build your website for less with this limited-time offer.

27 Nov 2024

Is Your PPC Strategy Sabotaging Your SEO? 2.3M Keyword Study

Here are some of the key statistics: 37.9% of advertised websites already rank in the top 10 organically for the same keyword. This indicates that a significant portion of businesses are paying for ads when they already have visibility for…Read m...

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27 Nov 2024

Updates for C++ developers in Visual Studio 2022 17.12

Visual Studio 17.12 is here and comes with a host of new features for C++ developers. We’ve made improvements across our toolchain, C++ Build Insights, Unreal Engine support, and more. This post gives a quick overview of what’s available; for all the details, see What’s New for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2022 17.12 on […]
The post Updates for C++ developers in Visual Studio 2022 17.12 appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

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27 Nov 2024

SEO for (Busy) Founders

Thanks to the following founders for sharing feedback on this guide: You already know that you need SEO, but it’s worth reiterating the benefits. SEO can help you: Some startups use SEO as their primary acquisition channel from day one.…Read more...

Digital Marketing

27 Nov 2024

Who’s Winning Off The Back Of The Affiliate Publication Drops?

The news came after Glenn Gabe shared a “stop-the-presses” post, revealing that Google had penalized various affiliate directories through a spate of manual actions. Parasite SEO usually occurs when users post self-referential links on someone e...

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27 Nov 2024

I Bet You Never Thought to Use a Form For That!

Go beyond contact forms with these six ideas.

26 Nov 2024

Europe Can Make Parenting in a Digital World Easier

Parenting in a digital world is hard. As a parent myself, I’ve been vocal about the challenge parents like me face every day and like most parents I worry: when is the right moment for my child to have their first phone and will they be safe when navig...

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26 Nov 2024

Unlocking the power of time-series data with multimodal models

Generative AI

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26 Nov 2024

How to Become a Thought Leader in Just 6 Incredibly Difficult Steps

I am a thought leader. I feel gross for typing those words. But here’s something that feels less gross to type: over the past decade, I have been lucky to find a small-but-important group of people who give a damn…Read more ›

Digital Marketing

25 Nov 2024

Helping everyone build AI for healthcare applications with open foundation models

Health & Bioscience

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25 Nov 2024

Bridging the gap in differentially private model training

Algorithms & Theory

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25 Nov 2024

13 Best AI Automation Tools to Increase Productivity & Efficiency

Overwhelmed by AI tools for automation? Discover 13 powerful tools to streamline workflows, boost productivity, and automate repetitive tasks effortlessly.

Digital Marketing

25 Nov 2024

How to Create an SEO Forecast [Free Template Included] — Whiteboard Friday

Learn how to forecast and demonstrate the value of your SEO efforts in this week's Whiteboard Friday and put it into practice with a free worksheet. Tom Mansell talks about quantifying predicted SEO value, closing performance gaps, and calculating ROI.

Digital Marketing

22 Nov 2024

Re-Invoke: Tool invocation rewriting for zero-shot tool retrieval

Machine Intelligence

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22 Nov 2024

3 Best AI SEO Tools to Work Smarter, Not Harder

To answer this, I went on a quest to find SEO tools that got AI right. Tools that don’t overpromise but offer tried-and-tested ways to make you work smarter, not harder. Tools that are not overly optimistic about AI just…Read more ›

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22 Nov 2024

Seasonal Color Palettes and Style Tips to Refresh Your Website for the Holidays

Embrace the festive season by refreshing your website with vibrant color palettes and themes.

21 Nov 2024

Join as at Search Central Live in Zurich!

We're looking forward to meeting you at the Google office in Zurich for Search Central Live Zurich 2024 on Dec 12, 2024.
Join us for presentations, Q&A and networking on December 12, 2024.

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20 Nov 2024

Scaling wearable foundation models

Generative AI

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20 Nov 2024

Scalable learning of segment-level traffic congestion functions

Climate & Sustainability

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19 Nov 2024

SpeakFaster: Revolutionizing communication for people with severe motor impairments

Generative AI

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19 Nov 2024

Getting the most out of Azure DevOps and GitHub

Microsoft has two very successful DevSecOps products in the market – GitHub and Azure DevOps. Azure DevOps has a large enterprise customer base that loves the highly customizable enterprise-focused planning and tracking capabilities in Azure Boards, the robust continuous delivery capabilities in Azure Pipelines, the manual and exploratory testing capabilities in Azure Test Plans, and […]
The post Getting the most out of Azure DevOps and GitHub appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.

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19 Nov 2024

Updating our site reputation abuse policy

Earlier this year, as part of our work to fight spam and deliver a great Search experience,
we launched a spam policy to combat site reputation abuse.
We're clarifying our policy language to further target this type of spammy behavio...

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19 Nov 2024

21 Top AI Tools for Content Creation in 2025

Overwhelmed by content creation? Explore 21 AI tools that enhance your creativity and streamline your workflow, helping you stand out

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19 Nov 2024

Announcing the General Availability of Managed DevOps Pools (MDP) for Azure DevOps

We are thrilled to announce that Managed DevOps Pools for Azure DevOps is now generally available! This milestone marks a significant advancement in our mission to improve developer productivity in the CI/CD loop, reduce your cloud bill for ES infra and to reduce the toil associated with creating and maintaining custom CI/CD infrastructure for your […]
The post Announcing the General Availability of Managed DevOps Pools (MDP) for Azure DevOps appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.

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19 Nov 2024

How To Do Comprehensive Research for Your Topic Cluster — Whiteboard Friday

In this week’s episode of Whiteboard Friday, Chima walks through what you can do before, during, and after your research process to ensure you’re creating elevated and relevant content within your topic clusters.

Digital Marketing

15 Nov 2024

11 Website Layout Examples for Every Type of Page

Choose the right layouts to help users achieve their goals.

14 Nov 2024

Insights into population dynamics: A foundation model for geospatial inference

Economics & Electronic Commerce

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14 Nov 2024

Can algorithms make tournament cheating obsolete?

Algorithms & Theory

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13 Nov 2024

Mapping the ionosphere with the power of Android

Data Mining & Modeling

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13 Nov 2024

November Patches for Azure DevOps Server

Today we are releasing patches that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly encourage and recommend that all customers use the latest, most secure release of Azure DevOps Server. You can download the latest version of the product, Azure DevOps Server 2022.2 from the Azure DevOps Server download page. The following versions of […]
The post November Patches for Azure DevOps Server appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.

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13 Nov 2024

Towards a unified model for predicting human responses to diverse visual content

Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization

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12 Nov 2024

Slow WordPress Site? Our Free Site Speed Tool Can Help

Quick website load times are crucial for user retention, satisfaction, and competitive advantage—get there faster with our free Site Speed Tool.

12 Nov 2024

What I Learned From Ahrefs Evolve: 4 Marketing Things I’m Doing Differently

In fact, I really loved the diversity—being held in Singapore, I was finally able to meet SEOs and marketers from around the region: Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, China, South Korea, and Japan. These are rarely peopl...

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12 Nov 2024

Why Great Marketing is Risky as Hell

We didn’t hire any consultants for this project. We didn’t create fancy presentations to justify the book to stakeholders. And we didn’t crunch any numbers to verify the potential impact on our brand awareness. In fact, no one in SaaS,…Read more ...

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12 Nov 2024

LLMO: 10 Ways to Work Your Brand Into AI Answers

In the words of Bernard Huang, speaking at Ahrefs Evolve, “LLMs are the first realistic search alternative to Google.” And market projections back this up: You might resent AI chatbots for reducing your traffic share or poaching your intellectual prope...

Digital Marketing

12 Nov 2024