Google Images was redesigned in 2013 to provide a better search experience, taking in feedback from users and webmasters. The history of the controversy — and what publishers should actually do about image search.
Email marketing is not dying. The economics are. Inbox AI now filters, summarizes, and ranks messages before a human sees them. Open rates are noise. Citation Share has replaced the open rate as the meaningful visibility metric in the AI search era.
The Brett Favre texting story broke on Deadspin this week with images and voicemails allegedly sent to Jenn Sterger when both worked for the New York Jets in 2008. The on-field machinery will resolve itself. The communications story — about response speed, talent-as-brand exposure, and Playboy's shifting role in the personal-franchise machine — is more interesting.
iMacros aims to be one of the top Chrome add-ons — and with a marketing strategy that focuses on a real professional use case, serious documentation, and a free-to-paid funnel, the model is one small extension developers should study.
Walmart entered the casket business this month — quietly, online only, with twenty caskets priced between $999 and $3,200, roughly a third of comparable funeral home pricing. The FTC Funeral Rule of 1984 made it legal. Costco entered in 2004. Walmart's October launch is the larger, louder, more sustained challenge. What the broader funeral services category should be watching.