How Was It For You, The First Time?

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Some travelling moments are hard to forget. They get seared onto the retina, and others are, well…meh.

I‘m talking about those first encounters with (cliché alarm!) ‘travel icons’. The moment when you see that thing you know about, but have never met face to face before…

The Sphinx – “Hmm, smaller than I thought” The Great Pyramid of Giza – “That’s better” The Eiffel Tower – “Ah, now I see how you get up” The Treasury at Petra – “Just Continue Reading

This Study Shows You How To Get The Most Clicks On Your Tweets

Where shall I click next? Hmmm...

An internet marketing firm’s “social media scientist” analyses where we’re most likely to click a link in a tweet – and it’s not where you might expect…

Hubspot’s Dan Zarella analyses a lot of social media data. It’s Zarella that created the useful if detail-numbing “Science Of Retweets” slideshow, statistically picking apart viral shares on Twitter to come up with their most common traits.

Now he’s looked for the best position for links in our tweets.

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A New Way To Search, Google Changes How Users Search for Travel Content

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Google quietly overturned its search protocols last week by making the plus sign obsolete.

Over the years, even low-tech users have understood that you can use the plus and minus signs to modify your search. For example, if you wanted to find a pizza recipe specifically from Milan, you might search for pizza recipe +Milan but this now is the result…

So now your search should be: pizza recipe “Milan”.

The other operator, minus, remains. Which is just as Continue Reading