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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

was selected due to its ranking for evergreen queries, such as “things to do in Canada.” If you try to replicate that with a crawler, such as Screaming Frog, you’ll get a 403 Forbidden response code because Screaming Frog only spoofs Googlebot. News is an especially challenging vertical since no site owns a newsworthy event.

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Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site

ConversionXL

But algorithms haven’t always kept pace. The initial consumer research that starts with “coffee grinder” may yield follow-up queries like “conical burr grinder reviews” as the searcher progresses toward a purchase. IP address) can provide clues to search engines, as can search history, time of year, or time of day.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone. Google also likely has the best computer vision experts, datasets, and algorithms on the planet. I think AR is that big, it’s huge. Global smartphone revenue is about $420B.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

We already have some competitors in the vertical and while there is no point in trying to hide the actual idea, there are differences in the way we implement stuff that can get us an advantage over the competition. >> We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. Note the "new".

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. It uses machine learning and predictive algorithms to analyze over 250 terabytes of data daily.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. But they herald a sea change in what computers are capable of doing, how they do it, and what hardware and software is needed to do it. The sum of these feels like buzzword bingo.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But every day spent in that kitchen is a day NOT spent in a real kitchen, learning how to cook real food, and write real code. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code.

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