The typical goal of search engine optimization is to have your site's pages show up on a Google results page in answer to a query. But there are pages that should not be included in search results. Removing them from Google's index might actually increase search engine traffic.
Dollar Tree has struggled to grow Family Dollar because of its different business model.
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A football route tree consists of a single straight line with other lines branching off it, depicting the various possible routes. Here is what a basic football route tree looks like.
The long read: When Aldi arrived in Britain, Tesco and Sainsbury’s were sure they had nothing to worry about. Three decades later, they know better
In 2017, the Hall of Fame Louisville coach’s career collapsed under a string of scandals, leading to his firing from the school he had coached for 16 years. Now, Pitino is finding himself in Greece, coaching Panathinaikos, working for a self-styled Bond
A guided walkthrough of how to use the Prophet python library to solve a common forecasting problem.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is winning the space race. His secret to success lay in the iterative development process, borrowed straight from the software industry.
Why we should ask people to submit problems, not ideas
We first shared this post in early 2019, long after the peak of the adult coloring fad . But desperate times call for desperate measures, and a globa
Duster was a small, largely forgotten band from the late ’90s. Then their legend began to grow on sites like Discogs. Now, they’re the subject of a major reissue. The internet made it all possible.
Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from AD 161 to 180, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy.
The best beach camping in California
A writer never knew her family’s house on St. Thomas, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, but discovering it, and her history, became an obsession.
Last week we hosted over 130 experimenters at Optimizely HQ in San Francisco for our first live event of the year. We were lucky enough to be joined by two...
How to use polynomials to share secrets, and how to verify that the secret has been shared without unlocking it.
A recent EY survey found that more than 40% of U.S. respondents reported feeling physically and emotionally isolated in the workplace. This group spanned generations, genders and ethnicities. People want more connection with those they work with. So how can companies connect…
I've long been impressed by shell one-liners. They seem like magical incantations. Pipe a few terse commands together, et voilà! Out pops the solution to a problem that would seem to require pages of code. Are these one-liners real or mythology? To some extent, they're both…
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Thousands of French people are coming to live in Quebec and discovering that a common language doesn’t necessarily mean a common culture.
Building a community is an essential step in establishing any company or brand as a leader in its respective industry. A brand community gives your
Color constancy continues to confound us.
Done right, GIST keeps the team, management and stakeholders aligned on the why (goals), what (ideas) and how (steps and tasks), and every task we execute is connected to a business goal. A full quarterly plan creates a GIST tree per goal:
As customers unsubscribe, companies like Blue Apron and Hello Fresh look for salvation at the grocery store
32K subscribers in the elixir community. Subreddit for the Elixir programming language, a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable…
Spotify’s acquisitions of Gimlet and Anchor signal ambitious plans to disintermediate the music industry.
by Pauline Brosch (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, February 2019)
Confirming what people already believe can sometimes help organizations overcome barriers to change.
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At the end, Theranos was overrun by a dog defecating in the boardroom, nearly a dozen law firms on retainer, and a C.E.O. grinning through her teeth about an implausible turnaround.
Greed, gringos, diesel, drugs, shamans, seaweed, and a disco ball in the jungle.
Create Reactive Web Apps in pure Python
For 10 years, a rogue fishing vessel and its crew plundered the world’s oceans, escaping repeated attempts of capture. Then a dramatic pursuit finally netted the one that got away.
When caviar-crazed Eastern Europeans flocked to Warsaw, Missouri to poach eggs from a vulnerable species of fish, federal agents went undercover and spent two years to build a case against them.
Throughout China, Allen Zhang is known as the “father of WeChat”. Zhang’s public persona has much the same cultural importance and weight as the American legacy of Steve Jobs. He is renowned in China’s tech scene as an artist and philosopher, as well as for his fierce mission…
Being able to sustain focus is a key to success in work and study. Here's how you can increase your mental stamina with these five strategies.
The Somali refugees living in a small small meatpacking town in Kansas loved America. But so did the locals who tried to kill them.
Seated at a table on the rear deck with Lindsay Lohan and her entourage, I spotted Alex Jimenez — a professional yacht influencer.
The train from Bangkok to Chiang Mai is a great way to see more of Thailand, but depending on your travels it’s not always the best way. With some planning by picking the right trains, you can save…
And improve your conversion rate by 1%
Quick-reference guide to the 17 statistical hypothesis tests that you need in applied machine learning, with sample code in Python. Although there are hundreds of statistical hypothesis tests that you could use, there is only a small subset that you may need to use in a machine…
Conversations with Bob Costas reveal for the first time how the broadcasting icon went from fronting America's most popular sport to being excised from last year's Super Bowl and, ultimately, ending his nearly 40-year career with NBC.
Repository for the tools and non-commercial data used for the "Accelerator wall" paper. - PrincetonUniversity/accelerator-wall
How one family plans to make $150,000 this year with retail arbitrage
Since 1998, roughly 380 Southern Baptist church leaders and volunteers have faced allegations of sexual misconduct. They left behind more than 700 victims.
Justin Alexander went searching for higher meaning. No one expected the quest to end in a search for his body.
The massive popularity of “Solaris” helped Lem become one of the most widely read science-fiction writers in the world. Yet his writing reached far beyond the borders of the genre.