Bank-Owned Properties Rose 34% Nationwide: How Real Estate Investors Can Use Foreclosure Data to Discover Investment Opportunities
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- Posted on August 11, 2025
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In real estate, timing is everything—and nowhere is that more true than in the foreclosure market. Foreclosures often signal distress, but for informed investors, they can also represent powerful tax-advantaged […]
What Garmin’s Acquisition of Mylaps Will Mean for Your Race Times
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- Posted on August 11, 2025
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Garmin has announced its acquisition of sports timing technology company MyLaps. This follows the announcement this spring of the Garmin Marathon Series, marking Garmin’s first venture into organizing its own competitive racing events. It’s no coincidence that MyLaps specializes in integrated timing, live tracking, and performance analysis tools. These two moves on Garmin’s end could […]
How to Bring Back GPT-4o in ChatGPT
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- Posted on August 11, 2025
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When OpenAI released GPT-5 last week, they advertised it as their best AI model yet. In fact, the company seemed so confident in its new model, it unceremoniously deprecated all other models from ChatGPT, including the fan-favorite GPT-4o. Who would miss 4o, when GPT-5 was “better” at just about everything? The answer, it seems, was […]
Scammers Are Targeting Facebook Users With This Phishing Scheme
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Scammers are relentless in their pursuit of your personal information, from login credentials to credit card numbers, and one of the latest schemes targets Facebook users (again), this time in an attempt to open an ongoing line of communication that they can exploit over time. Malwarebytes Labs has identified a login phishing scam nearly identical […]
This Subscription-Free Smart Video Doorbell Is 20% Off Right Now
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- Posted on August 11, 2025
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We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. If you want a smart video doorbell without paying a premium, the TP-Link Tapo D225 is at $79.97 on Amazon, which is just a hair above its all-time low of $78.78, according to price […]
Google Analytics Real Time Reporting Not Working Again
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- Posted on August 11, 2025
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Google Analytics seems not to be functioning properly again. The real-time reporting feature is underreporting numbers for many sites. Google had a similar issue last month and a couple months prior to that.
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 11, 2025
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Another weekend…
The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: Who Is ‘Ibiza Final Boss’?
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- Posted on August 11, 2025
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This week in pop culture, everyone is pointing and laughing. Gen Z has discovered a Millennial music craze that everyone wants to forget, the entire internet is clowning on Ice Cube’s new movie, and TikTok is obsessed with “Ibiza final boss.” No one, though, is laughing at four-year-olds addicted to brainrot. Ibiza Final Boss There’s […]
I Put ChatGPT and Gemini’s ‘Study Modes’ to the Test
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- Posted on August 11, 2025
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The rapid rise of digital tech has already given us the Google effect—the idea that our memories are much worse now that everything can be looked up online in seconds. Now we’ve now got the AI effect to contend with, too. We can now get everything summarized, written, and explained for us, which means far […]
These “Small” Rentals Boast BIG Cash Flow (Even at 7% Rates)
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- Posted on August 11, 2025
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Think today’s mortgage rates are stopping you from getting rich with rental properties? Think again. Today’s guest built an 11-unit rental portfolio—starting in 2022, with high interest rates—and is cash […]
From Single Mom (Working 3 Jobs!) to 5 Rentals in 2 Years
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Think you’ve missed your shot at real estate investing? Whether 25 or 55, you’re about to learn that it’s never too late to start. Today’s guest got started as a […]
Price Cuts Hit 12-Year High, Sellers Reconsider Quickly
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- Posted on August 11, 2025
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Are we witnessing the beginning of a housing market crash, or is this just a healthy correction? With 42% of homes on the market having taken price reductions — the […]
Google’s Gary Illyes Interviewed On AI Search, Content & SEO
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- Posted on August 11, 2025
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Kenichi Suzuki and Rio Ichikawa from Farber Company in Japan sat down with Gary Illyes of Google to interview him on AI Search, AI content, SEO and other topics. It is a good interview, it is in English, so I wanted to share it here.
Google Ads Tests Horizontal Line Above Sponsored Results
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- Posted on August 11, 2025
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Google is testing a horizontal line about the search ads, the sponsored results, within the Google search results. We’ve seen Google show a blue side color on these ads, we’ve seen animated horizontal lines and lines separating the sitelinks in ads as well.
Google May Be Using Generic & Undocumented Google Crawler
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- Posted on August 11, 2025
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There are numerous reports that Google may be using a more generic and undocumented Googlebot, Google crawler. The crawler user agent is just named “Google,” and it is not listed in any of the documented crawlers that Google has provided.







