Growing Digital World

It’s been 13 long years since Avatar—or any other film directed by James Cameron—debuted on the big screen. Hollywood has transformed since then: In 2009, Blockbuster hadn’t even declared bankruptcy yet. Since then, Disney has acquired 20th Century Fox, the studio that financed the first Avatar movie; expensive action films without superheroes now rarely get the green light, unless they star Tom Cruise; and streaming has crippled the movie theatre business. Yet Avatar remains the highest-grossing movie in history. When Avengers: Endgame briefly ascended to that top spot in 2020, Cameron launched a re-release of Avatar in China to recapture the title. It worked: The film has now grossed $2.9 billion in total. The director has long planned to make several sequels, but each year, when Disney would announce its upcoming slate, they’d add an addendum that the Avatar followups had been delayed yet again. Fans started to question whether Avatar 2, much less Avatar 3, 4, or 5, would ever be re

At Stanford University in 1995, the Google story first begins. Sergey Brin, a current student at Stanford, was chosen to give Larry Page a tour while he was considering the university for graduate study. According to some accounts, they didn't agree on much during that initial meeting, but by the following year they had formed a partnership. They developed a search engine from their dorm rooms that used links to gauge the significance of particular Web pages. This search engine was given the name Backrub. Backrub was renamed Google shortly after that (phew). The name, which was a pun on the mathematical formula for 1 followed by 100 zeros, perfectly encapsulated Larry and Sergey's goal of "organising the world's information and making it broadly accessible and useful."  Over the following few years, Google attracted the interest of Silicon Valley investors in addition to the academic community. Google Inc. was founded when Andy Bechtolsheim, a co-founder of Sun, g

Search Console is adding a new section for Shopping tab listings to help online store owners display their products on Google's Shopping tab as part of our ongoing efforts to support merchants and assist them in expanding their businesses across Google. To make it simpler for Search Console users to display their products across Google, we've added a number of features. A Merchant Listings report was just released by Search Console to assist retailers in adding Product structured data. A new section called Shopping tab listings will be visible to eligible online store owners who have implemented product markup as of right now. You might not notice any changes right away because we'll be implementing this change gradually over the coming weeks. In Search Console Shopping Tab Then, without having to re-verify website ownership, merchants will be able to easily create a Merchant Center account using a streamlined assisted sign-up process. With this new option, merchants only n

Century-long narratives from numerous cultures are woven together to create the real Cinderella.   You're familiar with Cinderella. You do, of course. She is a character we learn about through osmosis because she is a part of the cultural ether. Princess that she is. She is decked out in a lovely dress, glass shoes, long white gloves, and a shiny headband. To meet and dance with a very handsome prince and get home before the clock strikes midnight and her carriage turns back into a pumpkin, she overcomes the hardship of her evil stepmother and stepsisters, who treat her like their maid.  However, that isn't the true Cinderella. That is the Cinderella from the 1950 animated film and the recent remake that is currently playing in theatres. Not everyone can agree on who the real Cinderella is. She is a figure who connects the majority of human cultures and centuries of storytelling. And occasionally, her lost slipper isn't even made of glass. Greeks were the first Cinderellas.

At Meta, we develop products that will enable creators to gain exposure, expand their communities, and make a living. We're inviting creators from all over the world to join us in Creator Week 2022 as we help them advance their careers, connect with peers, and forge a shared future. New opportunities for creators to make money on Facebook and Instagram are also being announced. Digital collectibles updates Soon, Instagram users will be able to create their own digital collectibles and sell them to followers both inside and outside of the app. From creation (beginning on the Polygon blockchain), to showcasing, to selling, they will have an end-to-end toolkit. By purchasing digital collectibles made by their favourite creators directly from Instagram, users can support them easily. With the intention of soon expanding to more nations, we are testing these new features with a select group of creators in the US. We're also adding support for the Solana blockchain and Phantom wallet

The most commonly used data in Search Console is Google Search performance statistics, which is accessible via the Performance report and the Search Analytics API. This post goes over the data that is available and how Google processes it, including privacy filtering and other constraints relating to serving latency, storage, and processing resources. Have you ever wondered how these systems work? Let's take a closer look at them. Check out the introduction to Performance reports if you're new to Search Console. The fundamentals of search performance The Performance report includes four measures that indicate the evolution of your search traffic over time. Here's a synopsis of the article that describes how each metric is calculated: Clicks: The number of times a person clicks on your property from Google Search results. Impressions: The number of times your property appeared in Google search results. CTR (Click-through rate): The number of clicks divided by the number of i