Turn Your Thanksgiving Turkey Carcass Into a Killer Soup Overnight
It’s the end of the Thanksgiving meal. Looming over the kitchen clean-up crew is the turkey carcass, while stacks of plates are being hauled towards the counters by “helpful” dinner guests—as are serving dishes, glasses and tableware ephemera. At this point in the meal, you usually want to throw everything at the wall, but you […]
How to Protect Your Finances From Identity Theft
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday right around the corner, you’re sure to be entering your credit card info online a heck of a lot more than usual. As you do so, how can you be sure you’re not opening yourself up to credit card fraud and other kinds of identity theft? Having your identity […]
Google Ads Business Name & Logo Account-Level Automated Assets Live
Google has now added the business logo and business name details to the account-level automated assets within Google Ads. We knew this was being tested back in April and now it seems to be rolling out to advertisers.
Google “Simple Search” – New Search Refinement Option?
Google may be testing a new “Simple Search” feature that may dumb-down the search results when you want something more simple. Google shows the “Simple Search” +Topics refinement button at the top of the mobile and desktop results, when tapped on, it readjusts the results to give you a different set of results.
Google: Follower Count Is Not A Google Search Ranking Factor
Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, confirmed on X that follower count is not used as a search ranking factor by Google Search.
Google Bard Can Now Understand YouTube Videos
Google Bard can now respond with answers based on the spoken words in a YouTube video. Google said, it is “expanding the YouTube Extension to understand some video content so you can have a richer conversation with Bard about it.”
Google Fast Pickup Or Delivery Search Box
Google is testing a new section to show which products they have in their index that are available for fast pickup or fast delivery. Google already knows how long it would take to deliver or pick up an item, so it is grouping those that can be delivered or picked up fast in one search […]
Fuel for thought: Can a driverless car get arrested?
What happens when problems caused by autonomous vehicles are not the result of errors, but the result of purposeful attacks?
Existing-home sales fall to 13-year low despite strong buyer demand
Existing sales fell 4.1 percent in October to an annual rate of 3.79 million, the lowest since 2010, according to data from NAR. Nonetheless, multiple offers are still happening, economist Lawrence Yun said.
Avenue 8 unveils Sidekick, an AI assistant built with speed in mind
The spartan, amenity rich AI assistant is currently available to the 3-year-old brokerage’s 400 agents with plans to offer the tool to outsiders before the end of 2023, executives told Inman.
Curbio accused of targeting elderly homeowners in new fraud suit
Curbio “strongly” denied claims on Monday by Washington, D.C.’s attorney general that the pre-sale renovation startup violated consumer protection laws through “deception, intimidation and fraud.”
Toronto listing that offers to share a queen-size bed raises eyebrows
A listing posted to Facebook seeks an “easy going female” roommate and advertises half of a queen-size bed in a Toronto condo for $900 CAD per month.
Agents choose lively culture over cutting edge technology: Triple-I
Thirty percent of real estate agents and 55 percent of mortgage and real estate broker-owners agree that culture is the factor that sets a company apart from the rest, according to the October 2023 Inman Intel Index results.
Canadian officials looking for ways to decrease the number of Airbnbs
Under pressure to add more housing supply, officials say they’re looking at ways to decrease the number of short-term rentals in the country.
