John Mueller offered a practical check for determining whether a passage has been indexed and is technically available to rank.

If old sci-fi shows are anything to go by, we're all using our computers wrong. We're still typing with our fingers, like cave people, instead of talking out loud the way the future was supposed to be ...

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Older adults can make smartphones easier to read and use by increasing font size, enabling high-contrast text, or using screen magnifiers. Features like Assistive Touch, reading mode, voice assistants ...

Google has debuted a new feature called "Read Aloud" for Pixel smartphones, which will be available for all screenshots featuring articles, texts, and more. The latest feature will read aloud the text ...

Americans are reading for pleasure less. Let’s get back in the habit. By Jancee Dunn The staff at my local library are usually a convivial bunch, but when I asked them about a recent report that fewer ...

If you do a lot of your work using Google apps like Google Docs and Sheets, Gemini could help increase your productivity. Carly Quellman, aka Carly Que, is a multimedia strategist and storyteller at ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. There’s an irony to the backlash that embroiled Meta when it added ...

What barriers do students face when asked to read text and show their comprehension of it? This question was posed by an English/language arts teacher and educational consultant to a group of ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...

The judge in the Karen Read trial will allow into evidence damaging text messages from the fired lead investigator, Michael Proctor, who worked for the Massachusetts State Police. Judge Beverly ...