Democrats in the California legislature are pushing a law that critics say will hurt renters with higher rents by imposing restrictions on landlords. "This is really going to cause havoc to renters in California," said Daniel Yukelson of the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles to Blaze News about Assembly Bill 1266. AB 1266 would restrict landlords from asking whether potential renters have pets and would ban them from requiring pet deposits in order to cover the potential cost of...
"The fight over the California Journalism Preservation Act is not just a fight for local news’ survival in California, but a fight for democracy."
California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to be a "good neighbor" by allowing Arizonans to abort their babies in his state, he said during an appearance on MSNBC's Inside with Jen Psaki on Sunday.
Whatever happened to Google’s “Don’t be evil” motto? That corporate maxim is apparently gone, and the Internet behemoth has decided to display its super villain side. The latest example is a campaign in California to demonstrate just how easily the company could crush news outlets if state lawmakers dare to pass a law requiring that tech companies, such as Google, share advertising revenue with the journalists who produce much of the content on their platforms. Google announced last week that it...
As GOOGLE pulls news from search, fate of Journalism Preservation Act is unclear (Third column, 4th story, link)
The News/Media Alliance, a journalism trade organization and advocacy group, on Tuesday asked federal government officials to investigate Google after the tech giant said it would limit links to California news outlets in its search results. The alliance, which represents publishers in the news and magazine industry, said Google's actions appear "to either be coercive or retaliatory, driven by Google's opposition to a pending legislative measure in Sacramento." The proposed state measure in...
The News/Media Alliance, formerly the Newspaper Association of America, asked US federal agencies to investigate Google’s removal of links to California news media outlets. Google’s tactic is in response to the proposed California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA), which would require it and other tech companies to pay for links to California-based publishers’ news content. The News/Media Alliance, which represents over 2,200 publishers, sent letters to the Department of Justice, Federal Trade...
Google’s core update is still rolling out over 7 weeks later and yes we are seeing more fluctuations and chatter. Forbes blocked its coupon directory in preparation for the Google site reputation abuse policy. Google said splitting and merging sites takes longer than normal site migrations. Google won’t change 301 redirect signals for SEO. Google said they need very few links for rankings. Google said you can ignore link spam. Google said its link best practices document is still good. Google...
Want to scare an SEO? Just tell them they need to manage a site migration. Want to make an SEO faint? Tell them they need to manage to split a site into two or more sites while merging content on those sites. John Mueller from Google said it takes Google longer to process site splits and merges than normal site migrations.John said this on X saying, "Splitting & merging tend to take much longer than a normal site migration." Why? Because he said "there's not much you can do other than to be...
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The excitement surrounding the upcoming Bitcoin halving has led to a significant increase in Google searches for “Bitcoin halving,” with interest reaching its highest point ever, more than double that of the last halving event in 2020, and is predicted to hit peak popularity. The halving event, which reduces the rewards miners receive by half, […]
OP_CAT, a proposal aimed at introducing Ethereum-like smart contract functionality to Bitcoin, has been assigned the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) number 347, marking the first step towards potentially implementing this long-discussed software upgrade. Co-authors Ethan Heilman and Armin Sabouri have emphasized that receiving a BIP number mainly facilitates discussion around the proposal by providing a […]