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Let’s Say Goodbye to the Google Old Search Console

After over two years since the new version of the Google Search Console has come out, Google has finally removed access to the old version.

Old & New Google Search Console
Google's Old & New Search Console

After over two years of testing the new Google Search Console and bringing it out of just about a year ago, Google has announced it has shut down the old Google Search Console.

In their Webmaster Central Blog, Google said,
Today we are reaching another important milestone in our graduation journey, we are saying goodbye to many old Search Console reports, including the home and dashboard pages 👋. Those pages are part of the history of the web, they were viewed over a billion times by webmasters from millions of websites. These pages helped site owners and webmasters to monitor and improve their performance on Google Search for over a decade.

From now on, if you try to access the old homepage or dashboard you’ll be redirected to the relevant Search Console pages. There are only a few reports that will still be available on the old interface for now - check the Legacy tools and reports in the Help Center. We're continuing to work on making the insights from these reports available in the new Search Console, so stay tuned!

The announcement also shared on the twitter account:

Interface Redirect: Google is redirecting all attempts to reach the old Google Search Console into the new Google Search Console interface. There are several legacy reports that are still not migrated over or replaced in the new interface. Those reports will be accessible via an option in the new Google Search Console named “legacy tools and reports.” You will be able to access those legacy tools and reports via the links.

Google is officially sunsetting the old version of the Search Console. Users who try to access the old version will be redirected to relevant pages in the new Search Console.
There is still no 1-to-1 replacement for every old tool and report in Search Console, so Google will still be keeping these alive for now:
  1. Disavow Tool
  2. Remove URLs tool
  3. Crawl stats report
  4. Robots.txt testing tool
  5. URL Parameters tool
  6. International targeting
  7. Google analytics association
  8. Data highlighter tool
  9. Messages report
  10. Crawl rate settings
  11. Email preferences
  12. Web tools

Google will continue to work on making the above tools and reports available in the new Search Console. However, Google recently stated that users shouldn’t expect all tools to be ported over to the new version.

Below are some tools and reports which Google will be working on to make them permanent in the new search console but not all the tools will be ported over to the new version.
  • Structured Data Testing Tool
  • Structured Data Markup Helper
  • Page Speed Insights

Currently, there are few reports from the old search console which is accessible in the New Console under Legacy Tools and Reports below Security issues and above the Links tab.

New Legacy Tools And Reports
Legacy Tools And Reports In New Search Console

In the new Webmaster Search Console, when you click the Legacy Tools and Reports, a drop-down menu displays the following items:
  • International targeting
  • Removals
  • Crawl stats
  • Messages
  • URL parameters
  • Web Tools

Later I'll Explain How to Use Search Console New Legacy Tools And Reports.

Google paid tribute to the occasion by gathering its team for a group photo in front of the old Search Console interface in their blog post and a tweet.

Why Webmaster and SEOs Should Care: This is a big change for a lot of SEOs who were familiar and comfortable with the old google webmaster tool interface. Google removed features slowly from the old interface, but some SEOs continued to hang on to it.

By now, we should be used to the new interface and check out the new option to see some of the legacy reports. However, Google promised to add new tools in the new search console.

Infographic: 2017 Voice Assistant Trends



The popularity of voice assistants has seen a phenomenal rise in the last few years. In fact, we’re quickly closing in on one million voice assistants connected to IFTTT! So, we know you love them — and love using them with IFTTT to control everything from smart lights to your social media. But, we wanted to learn more about how exactly you’re interacting with your assistants. So, in April, we reached out and asked you. Here’s what you had to say:


 Alexa and Google Assistant are honorary for IFTTT Headquarter — always ready to help out with a question, find a phone, take a note, track a to-do — or start the party. There’s more on the way, too: new assistants are building with IFTTT! Watch this space to hear about them as soon as they hit the platform. In the meantime, check out our latest collection, Applets for voice assistants, to see some of our favorite use cases.

Microsoft and LinkedIn Aggrement

Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn June 13, 2016 LinkedIn Blog Post.

Today we are excited to share that LinkedIn has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Microsoft. We are joining forces with Microsoft to realize a common mission to empower people and organizations. LinkedIn’s vision – to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce – is not changing and our members still come first.

Our companies are the world’s leading professional cloud and network. This deal will allow us to keep growing, investing in and innovating on LinkedIn to drive value for our members and our customers. Our members will continue to develop their skills, find a job and be great at that job, using our platform. We will continue to help our customers hire top talent, market their brand, and sell to their customers.

The LinkedIn you know and value is only getting better. LinkedIn will retain its distinct brand, culture and independence. We’ve been changing the way the world’s professionals have connected to opportunity for 13 years, and this is an opportunity for us to truly change the way the world works on a massive scale.

I’m incredibly energized by what this means for our members and employees, and for my personal perspective on this news, I encourage you to read my Influencer post. You can find more details on the agreement on the Microsoft News Center and the LinkedIn Newsroom.

Additional Information and Where to Find It

In connection with the transaction described above, LinkedIn Corporation (the “Company”) will file relevant materials with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), including a proxy statement on Schedule 14A. Promptly after filing its definitive proxy statement with the SEC, the Company will mail the definitive proxy statement and a proxy card to each stockholder entitled to vote at the special meeting relating to the transaction. INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS OF THE COMPANY ARE URGED TO READ THESE MATERIALS (INCLUDING ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS THERETO) AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE TRANSACTION THAT THE COMPANY WILL FILE WITH THE SEC WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE COMPANY AND THE TRANSACTION. The definitive proxy statement, the preliminary proxy statement and other relevant materials in connection with the transaction (when they become available), and any other documents filed by the Company with the SEC, may be obtained free of charge at the SEC’s website (http://www.sec.gov) or at LinkedIn’s website (http://investors.linkedin.com) or by writing to LinkedIn Corporation, Investor Relations, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, California 94043.

The Company and its directors and executive officers are participants in the solicitation of proxies from the Company’s stockholders with respect to the transaction. Information about the Company’s directors and executive officers and their ownership of the Company’s common stock is set forth in the Company’s proxy statement on Schedule 14A filed with the SEC on April 22, 2016. To the extent that holdings of the Company’s securities have changed since the amounts printed in the Company’s proxy statement, such changes have been or will be reflected on Statements of Change in Ownership on Form 4 filed with the SEC. Information regarding the identity of the participants, and their direct or indirect interests in the transaction, by security holdings or otherwise, will be set forth in the proxy statement and other materials to be filed with SEC in connection with the transaction.

Google Redesigns its Logo

Google New Logo

Google is introduced a new logo yesterday and this is the fifth such modification since the search engine giant started in 1998. Just a month after unveiling a major restructuring of the company, Google is updated its logo.

But why change it up? A post at the Google Blog explains:
Once upon a time, Google was one destination that you reached from one device: a desktop PC. These days, people interact with Google products across many different platforms, apps and devices—sometimes all in a single day. You expect Google to help you whenever and wherever you need it, whether it’s on your mobile phone, TV, watch, the dashboard in your car, and yes, even a desktop! 
Today we’re introducing a new logo and identity family that reflects this reality and shows you when the Google magic is working for you, even on the tiniest screens. As you’ll see, we’ve taken the Google logo and branding, which were originally built for a single desktop browser page, and updated them for a world of seamless computing across an endless number of devices and different kinds of inputs (such as tap, type and talk).

The new Google logo is still a wordmark, but it's now using a sans-serif typeface, making it look a lot more modern, playful and similar to the one being used by Google's newly created holding company, Alphabet.

The colors are softer than they used to be. The logo bears a bit more resemblance to the logo of Google's new parent company, Alphabet, as well. Alphabet's wordmark has a similarly unadorned look, and this update makes the two companies' design language fall more inline.

The revamped logo, used to identify most of its apps, bids farewell to the little blue "g" icon and replaces it with a uppercase "G" colored in blue, red, yellow and green to match the full logo.

Google New App Icon

Mozila launched ‘Webmaker’ Android App in Bangla


Mozilla Webmaker Android App

August 17, 2015 Mozilla launched a new Android app version of Webmaker that focused on participants from three main markets – Bangladesh, India, and Kenya. The new app currently only support Android devices and available in four languages: Bengali, Brazilian Portuguese, English and Indonesian.

The announcement comes as a follow up on the initial Mozilla Webmaker that launched over three years ago, with the goal of hand-tailoring an intuitive and organic web-creating space that would help people "learn and play using the open building blocks of the web."

You can download the  free, open source app from Google Play at mzl.la/webmaker.

Current app is updated version of it beta version. Improved performance and a more optimal user experience, shared projects can now be viewed on any platform (mobile or desktop), and users with poor connectivity will experience better performance while offline. Also, content discovery is now location-based — you can see what others in your community are creating and remixing.

Mozilla Webmaker transforms Web users into Web makers. You can build original content like scrapbooks, photo galleries, memes, comic strips and more. Mozilla built Webmaker to empower first-time smartphone users and mobile-first Web users as active participants on the Web. Too often, individuals around the world experience a “read-only” mobile Web, passively consuming content and unable to actively contribute. But when consumers become creators, they’re introduced to social and economic opportunity. And when everyone can contribute equally, the Web becomes a better place.

Webmaker was designed to give these users a way to create their own presence online. Webmaker also could set the stage for bringing more local content on the Web.

Testing Bangla Webmaker

Bangladesh Mozilla Community has made significant contribution to planning and making the Webmaker. Bangladeshi volunteers have worked with Mozilla Webmaker Team for several months to make sure the app User-Friendly, better performance and a more optimal user experience.

In the coming months, the Mozilla will promote Webmaker in Bangladesh as part of a nationwide campaign to Web literacy. Alongside Access-to-Information (program) of Prime Minister's Office, Mozilla will work in Bangladesh aiming to increase the digital efficiency.

IT Security and Fraud Detection Seminar in Dhaka

IT Security and Fraud Detection Seminar

A seminar about IT Security and Fraud Detection and its proper usages will be held on Thursday, August 27 at BIBM Center.

CTO Forum Bangladesh and Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) will organized the seminar at BIBM Center. The organizers said at a press conference in city’s Farmgate area on Monday afternoon.

They said that so far 700+ online shops exist in bangladesh and Sales of these online shopping sites are gradually increasing everyday. Every online shop at some point face fraud and security issue. According to the organizers, the seminar will uphold different aspects of online shopping, which has earned fame globally.

It will put importance on IT Security and Fraud Detection as it is the top issue in developing this sector, they added.

Visa chief risk (India and South Asia) officer Shivakumar Sriraman will present keynote paper at the seminar to be attended by Bangladesh Bank (BB) deputy governor Nazneen Sultana as chief guest and BIBM director general Dr Towfiq Ahmed Chowdhury as special guest.

Southeast Bank limited deputy managing director SM Mainuddin Chowdhury, CTO Forum Bangladesh president Kamal Kanti Sarkar, its vice president Nawyad Iqbal, EC Shyama Prasad Bepari and Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLS head of IT Dr Izazul Haque, among others, were present at the conference.

To mitigate your online business risk of Security and fraud, you should join the Seminar.

Apple New Product: Apple Watch

Apple Testing a Watch That Works With Your Phone, Reports Say (ABC News)

Dick Tracy had one. As did Inspector Gadget and James Bond. A watch that doubled as a computer, two-way radio, mapping device or television.

Though such a device has been lost to science fiction comics and spy movies of the era before smartphones, the smart watch might soon become a reality, in the form of a curved glass device made by Apple (AAPL).

In its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., Apple is experimenting with wristwatch-like devices made of curved glass, according to people familiar with the company's explorations, who spoke on the condition that they not be named because they are not allowed to publicly discuss unreleased products. Such a watch would operate on Apple's iOS platform, two people said, and stand apart from competitors based on the company's understanding of how such glass can curve around the human body.

Apple declined to comment on its plans. But the exploration of such a watch leaves open lots of exciting questions: If the company does release such a product, what would it look like? Would it include Siri, the voice assistant? Would it have a version of Apple's map software, offering real-time directions to people walking down the street? Could it receive text messages? Could it monitor a user's health or daily activity? How much will it cost? Could Timothy D. Cook, Apple's chief executive, be wearing one right now, whispering sweet nothings to his wrist?

Such a watch could also be used to make mobile payments, with Apple's Passbook payment software.

Although it would take Dick Tracy to find the answers to those questions, and it's uncertain when Apple might unveil such a device, it's clear that Apple has the technology.

Last year, Corning, the maker of the ultra-tough Gorilla Glass that is used in the iPhone, announced that it had solved the difficult engineering challenge of creating bendable glass, called Willow Glass, that can flop as easily as a piece of paper in the wind without breaking.

Pete Bocko, the chief technology officer for Corning Glass Technologies, who worked on Willow Glass, said via telephone that the company had been developing the thin, flexible glass for more than a decade, and that the technology had finally arrived.

"You can certainly make it wrap around a cylindrical object and that could be someone's wrist," Mr. Bocko said. "Right now, if I tried to make something that looked like a watch, that could be done using this flexible glass."

But Mr. Bocko warns that it is still quite an engineering feat to create a foldable device. "The human body moves in unpredictable ways," he said. "It's one of the toughest mechanical challenges."

To add to the excitement of an Apple watch, late last year the Chinese gadget site Tech.163 reported that the company had begun development of a watch featuring Bluetooth and a 1.5-inch display.

"Apple's certainly made a lot of hiring in that area," said Sarah Rotman Epps, a Forrester analyst who specializes in wearable computing and smartphones. "Apple is already in the wearable space through its ecosystem partners that make accessories that connect to the iPhone," she said, adding: "This makes Apple potentially the biggest player of the wearables market in a sort of invisible way."

"Over the long term wearable computing is inevitable for Apple; devices are diversifying and the human body is a rich canvas for the computer," Ms. Epps said. "But I'm not sure how close we are to a new piece of Apple hardware that is worn on the body."

Investors would most likely embrace an iWatch, with some already saying that wearable computing could replace the smartphone over the next decade.

"We believe technology could progress to a point where consumers have a tablet plus wearable computers, like watches or glasses, that enable simple things like voice calls, texting, quick searches, navigation," Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, said in a report last month. "These devices are likely to be cheaper than an iPhone and could ultimately be Apple's best answer to addressing emerging markets."

Mr. Cook is clearly interested in wearables. In the past he has been seen wearing a Nike FuelBand, which tracks a user's daily exertion. The FuelBand data is shared wirelessly with an iPhone app.

Bob Mansfield, Apple's senior vice president for technologies, who previously ran hardware engineering, has also been particularly interested in wearables, an Apple employee said. Mr. Mansfield is engrossed by devices that connect to the iPhone, through Bluetooth, sharing information back and forth from the human body to the phone, including the Nike FuelBand and Jawbone Up.

If smartphones do become smart watches and smart glasses, Apple seems to have the technology to make standout wearable computers.

Last year the company filed patents for displays that sit over the eye and stream information to the retina. Given that the iPod Nano is about the size of an overfed ant, the company clearly knows how to make small devices, too.

But, maybe there are other devices coming before wearables. Apple has long been rumored to be working on a television-like experience. And, there is the possibility of an Apple car.

In a meeting in his office before he died, Steven P. Jobs, Apple's co-founder and former chief executive, told John Markoff of The New York Times that if he had more energy, he would have liked to take on Detroit with an Apple car.

In August, during the company's patent trial with Samsung, Philip W. Schiller, Apple's senior vice president for worldwide product marketing, said on the stand that Apple had explored making "crazy stuff" before development of the iPhone and iPad, including a camera or a car. While Apple continues its experiments with wearables, its biggest competitor, Google, is pressing ahead with plans to make wearable computers mainstream.

According to a Google executive who spoke on the condition that he not be named, the company hopes its wearable glasses, with a display that sits above the eye, will account for 3 percent of revenue by 2015. Olympus is also working on wearable computers.

Google is holding private workshops in San Francisco and New York for developers to start building applications for its glasses. At the event in San Francisco last week, Hosain Rahman, chief executive of Jawbone, the maker of the Up, a wrist device that tracks people's energy and sleep, said that "a decade from now we won't be able to imagine life without the wearables that we use to access information, unlock our doors, pay for goods and most importantly track our health."