Amazon Web Services Goes Down and Takes a Multitude of Sites With It

Early this morning Amazon Web Services started experiencing a problem in one of their data centers in Virginia. Amazon Web Services is a cloud computing service from Amazon.com. Many online platforms and services use Amazon’s service to host data for their online applications. It’s been reported that the outages were caused by a networking event. […]

Google Makes Local Search More Transparent. A Big Change? Not Really.

Yesterday on the Google’s Public Policy Blog, Google announced that they were moving their settings for local search to a much more prominent place on the left hand panel of the search results page. This is not a huge policy change. Which is even stated in their post: With this new display you’re still getting […]