The European Parliament has finally voted in favor of a resolution to break up Google by 'unbundling' the search engine from the rest of its business. The vote calls upon the European Commission, which is the EU’s antitrust regulator, to “enforce EU competition rules [and] to consider proposals with the aim of unbundling search engines from other commercial services.”

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Are you stuck with your YouTube account URL you picked long ago that doesn't quite capture the essence of what you do anymore? Despair not, for YouTube is giving you a way out. You can now get a new custom URL that's more befitting of your brand. This is definitely better than opening up a brand new channel, and losing all of your previous subscribers. The option will be made available over the next week.

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What is the hottest social networking platform to be on right now? If you thought Pinterest or Instagram, then you'd be close. But not close enough. If you thought Facebook, you couldn't have been more wrong! This time, the baton has been picked up by a network that's a blogging platform as well! A report by Global Web Index reveals that Tumblr is now the fastest growing social network, with its active user base having grown 120% in the past six months!

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The winter holiday season is just around the corner, with Black Friday just a few days away. For retailers, this is probably the busiest time of the year as shoppers from around the world wait for the annual sales. To help retailers maximize their business prospects this holiday season, Google has released a new set of mobile features to its Google Shopping platform, as well as some insights that will help online stores research the hottest products this holiday weekend

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Caching and cookies are two methods browsers employ to save data regarding a certain website. Caching is used to store some web page data locally for faster loading on each subsequent revisit, whereas cookies are small pieces of data containing important user information for a website. Not many webmasters know or use this, but you can actually use just HTML meta tags to control cookies and browser caching for your website!

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Mobile is growing at such as fast pace that it is no longer the future. Rather, as Bing puts it, it is the present. Search engines are now helping webmasters make their sites mobile friendly. For example, Google has recently launched a new mobile-friend testing tool which lets webmasters know if their website is good to go mobile or not. Bing has been hard at work too, and is ready to acknowledge all the work you've been doing to get crawled, selected, indexed, and ranked - from a mobile perspective.

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The Mobile is growing at a fantastic pace. Not just in screen size and technical specs, but in usage as well. For some businesses, the mantra these days is 'Go mobile, or go home'. If you're a webmaster, you know all too well the struggles of maintaining a mobile site. To help you along, Google has introduced a mobile-friendly test tool to see if your mobile passes Google's criteria for what it considers to be a mobile optimized website.

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