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Thursday, January 26, 2023
Search Engine #10. Seznam
Search Engine #10. Seznam
Worldwide Search Engine Market Share: 0.05%
Last on our list of the top search engines in the world is Seznam.
This search engine and web portal is hugely popular in the Czech Republic. In fact, it was the leading search engine there until Google came along.
Today, Google holds 84 percent of the Czech Republic’s market share, leaving only 16 percent to Seznam and others.
Seznam was founded in 1996 by Ivo Lukačovič in Prague.
It began as a simple search engine and online directory. By 2001, Seznam had developed financial, social, and political news, as well as TV programs, dictionaries, maps, weather forecasts, and more.
Today Seznam runs more than 15 different internet services and associated brands.
Search Engine #8. Naver
Introducing Naver, the eighth most successful search engine in the world with a 0.13 percent market share.
This popular Korean search engine holds 75 percent of the market share in South Korea. As a result, it’s often referred to as “The Google of South Korea.”
Naver began in 1999 as the first web portal in Korea to develop and use its own search engine. Today, the Naver corporation provides a multitude of services, such as an email client, encyclopedia, children’s search engine, and news web portal.
As popular as the search engine is in South Korea, it seems unlikely that the search engine will grow internationally in the near future.
Search Engine #9. AOL
Worldwide Search Engine Market Share: 0.06%
AOL currently holds just 0.06 percent of the world’s search engine market share. This is surprising when you consider that AOL was once an internet trailblazer.
AOL – short for “America Online” – first came into existence way back in 1985.
The web portal and online service provider based in New York City was one of the early pioneers of the internet in the mid-1990s.
It originally provided a dial-up service, web portal, email, and instant messaging.
If you weren’t around to experience dial-up internet, it was a time when you literally had to dial-in using a phone line to connect.
It was always an exciting moment.
Those of us old enough to remember dial-up will recall the glorious and unmistakable sound of the phone line connecting…
In 2000, AOL bought the traditional media icon Time Warner for $165 billion.
AOL was on top of the world.
Around this time, AOL had its own branded search engine called NetFind, which was renamed “AOL Search” in 1999.
However, over time, AOL lost its dominance of the internet as new competitors like Google swamped the market.
So AOL turned its attention to acquiring major online media companies.
It acquired TechCrunch in 2010 for $25 million, purchased The Huffington Post for $315 million in 2011, and acquired many more recognizable internet brands.
Then in 2015, AOL was acquired by Verizon Communications for $4.4 billion.
Today, AOL Search lives on, but it’s only a tiny fragment of AOL and Verizon’s business.
Search Engine DuckDuckGo
Worldwide Search Engine Market Share: 0.39%
DuckDuckGo is the seventh largest search engine with a 0.39 percent share of the global market.
This search engine is all about privacy.
These days, there are countless Google privacy concerns. The giant is well-known to track, monitor, and collect reams of data about its users.
So if you feel a little uneasy about your data being harvested and stored, or you don’t like targeted advertising, you might want to give DuckDuckGo a chance.
The search engine’s tagline is “Privacy, simplified.”
It describes itself as, “The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.”
Sounds pretty good, right?
DuckDuckGo doesn’t store your personal information or follow you around with ads.
This means that if you look at a pair of shoes, you won’t have to spend the next two weeks being bombarded with shoe advertisements.
There’s even a handy Google Chrome extension to make switching easier.
Essentially, it’s the perfect solution for anyone concerned about keeping their personal information and browsing activity private.
DuckDuckGo now receives 27.4 million daily search queries and it’s consistently growing.
Yandex went public on the New York Stock Exchange
Back in 2011, Yandex went public on the New York Stock Exchange with an initial public offering (IPO) of 1.3 billion – making it the second largest in the sector after Google at the time.
Search Engine #6. Ask
Worldwide Search Engine Market Share: 0.72%
Ask is the sixth largest search engine in the world with a 0.72 percent market share – 100 times smaller than Google and 10 times smaller than Bing.
Founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in California, the site was originally named “Ask Jeeves.”
The idea was not to create another directory or search engine, but a question-and-answer service much like a virtual concierge. This is why the founders chose the name after P.G. Wodehouse’s character, Jeeves the butler.
The company dropped “Jeeves” from the name in 2006 when the company rebranded to “Ask.”
In 2010, Ask.com gave up on the search engine market after facing insurmountable competition from more successful search engines like Google.
Now, Google actually powers Ask.com search results.
Lands fourth place in the list of the world’s largest search
Worldwide Search Engine Market Share: 3.39%
Yahoo! Lands fourth place in the list of the world’s largest search engines with a 3.39 percent share of the global market.
Yahoo!’s story is as interesting as it is embarrassing.
The company was founded way back in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo.
They originally named the website, “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web,” before quickly renaming it Yahoo!, which stands for “Yet Another Hierarchical Organized Oracle.”
Yahoo! Mail and other web services propelled the company to a valuation of $125 billion in 2000.
But then things went downhill.
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin tried to sell Google to Yahoo! in 1998 for a measly $1,000,000.
Yahoo! turned them down.
Then, despite having a huge head start and far more resources, Yahoo! Mail lost to Gmail, Yahoo! Answers lost to Quora, and Yahoo!’s Flickr lost to Instagram.
Ouch.
Today, Yahoo!’s search engine is actually powered by Microsoft’s Bing search engine. So the results from both search engines are very similar.
Search Engine #5. Yandex
Worldwide Search Engine Market Share: 1.53%
Yandex scores the fifth position on the list of the top 10 search engines with a global market share of 1.53 percent.
It’s the most popular search engine in Russia with 55% of total Russian search traffic, closely followed by Google.
The search engine is also popular in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkey.
Yandex provides more than 70 different services, including tools such as Yandex Disk, a cloud-based storage service similar to Google Drive.
The name “Yandex” was adopted in 1993 and stands for “Yet Another iNDEXer.”
One of its key advantages for Russian-language users is its ability to understand Russian inflection in search queries.
In Russian, words can take on more than 20 different endings to indicate their relationship to one another. “While this makes the language precise,” says MIT linguistics professor David Pesetsky, “it makes search extremely difficult.”
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Small Businesses Are a Great Place to Start Your Career
Does it seem like everyone is jockeying for a job with the Big Four? Or, maybe you've started working for one, and it's not going as well as you thought it would. Sure, you have a generous salary, but perhaps you're tired of working from a windowless cubicle or fighting heavy traffic every day.
If you're burned out by working for large corporations, a job with a small business could be a smart move—and one that could pay huge dividends for your career. Here's how.
What Is a Small Business?
A small business isn't just your local cupcake bakery with four employees. The Small Business Administration (SBA) defines a small business as a company with up to 1,500 employees that generates no more than $41.5 million in annual revenue. And small businesses employ more than 40% of working Americans.
The Advantages of Working for a Small Business
There are numerous benefits to working for a small business. Here are just a few reasons to consider a job with a small company for your next career move.
— Expand Your Skill Set
Employees who work for a small business may wear a lot of hats. You might be helping manage the ecommerce store in addition to updating social media and writing ad copy. Or, you might not only work as a UX Designer creating mock-ups of apps, but you could also be helping market the product.
Working for a small business, you'll get to try many new things to build your skill set for future opportunities.
— Enjoy More Flexibility
A large, widely-known Fortune 500 company may not be as willing to embrace remote or hybrid work, although many are shifting their views. Attempts to negotiate flexible work options can be difficult since there can be more red tape with corporate policy.
A small business has less bureaucracy, so it can be easier to negotiate the hybrid or remote work options you desire.
— Easily Access Leadership
At a large company, there's a slim chance you'll ever interact with senior leaders, like the CEO. However, at a small company, you might be meeting with the CEO regularly to provide updates as the sole marketer. Or, they may hold company town halls to discuss policy changes or goals for the upcoming quarter.
This access allows you to demonstrate your value to senior leadership, which means that working for a small business could provide opportunities to grow your career within the company.
Start Working for a Small Business Today
While a small business may not come with an internationally-known name or large salary, there can be numerous benefits to working for one. A small company can provide you the valuable opportunity to learn new skills, enjoy flexible working options, and meet with senior leadership.
Ready to enjoy the flexibility of working for a small business? Since 2007, FlexJobs has provided job seekers with access to a scam-free jobs board to help them land their next hybrid or remote role. Explore the benefits of a FlexJobs membership today!
Teacher Builds Better Balance for Fun in Retirement
Many people think of retirement as a period in life full of baking cookies, swinging on the porch, and golfing. But for many retirees, that routine might sound like a nice vacation for a little while but becomes tedious on a daily basis.
Karen J. was one of those retirees. She didn't want to settle quietly into her hobbies after she retired from teaching. The desire to fill up some of her time and satisfy her quest for continual learning took her back to the classroom part-time.
However, it didn't take long for her to realize a traditional teaching role in a classroom was no longer an ideal fit for her retirement years. "Being inside the school working with a very limited and tight schedule, I decided I wanted more flexibility," Karen says.
Seeking a Better Work-Life Balance in Retirement
Karen also needed a job that provided more consistent income to add to her savings and boost her hobby fund. "Not getting a salary when schools are closed, on holidays, during vacation weeks, or over the entire summer was a bit stressful!"
But Karen found that it was challenging to find a part-time job that matched her professional skills and experience on her own, which led her to FlexJobs.

Discovering New Options
Through FlexJobs, Karen was able to land not one but two part-time, flexible positions with TutorMe and Littera Education. And together, they fit her needs perfectly. Now, Karen is busy "enjoying more of life by having time for other pursuits, piano, crafts, church activities, or simply being with friends."
"I enjoy being at home because it is quiet. I can take breaks when needed, schedule work, and not feel rushed to get from one place to another by a certain time. Now, I can leave for appointments or just have additional time for my hobbies."
Beyond balancing her time, Karen enjoys staying relevant and learning new skills that align with her lifelong career. "These roles give me additional training since I am a lifelong learner and still would like to help students achieve success."
Advice to Anyone Considering a FlexJobs Membership
Like many retirees, Karen noted that it's a balancing act to fight against age bias and other stereotypes about retirees. She suggests that other retirees update their resumes strategically with a focus on communicating both their experience and desire to keep working.
And even though budgets can be tight in retirement, Karen thinks the paid membership is well worth it. She says, "Try it for three months and keep looking! FlexJobs has a LOT of jobs."
Create Your Own Retirement Rules
There is no standard blueprint for retirement anymore. As Karen discovered, you can create your work-life balance rules.
If you're ready to explore your flexible work options, FlexJobs can help. We post jobs daily in over 50 career categories, and we have an entire team of real people dedicated to verifying those jobs to ensure that our members only see legitimate opportunities. Take the tour and discover all of the ways FlexJobs can support you!
Balance and a Rewarding Career Using FlexJobs
For many, the United States Census Bureau study about commuting comes as no surprise. The Bureau's report shares that the average time spent commuting back and forth to work has grown to almost 30 minutes each way. And for most professionals who work in an office setting, giving up five hours of life each week for a commute is pretty standard.
But Sara S. struggled with a lengthy commute combined with long, draining hours. She realized that something had to change. Her work life was taking a toll on her family and personal commitments and pushing her to professional burnout. It was time to take back control of her life.
Committing to Pursuing Balance
Recognizing that she needed a change, Sara looked for remote roles independently. It was only a short time before she realized she was spending more time sourcing legitimate positions than she was applying for and following up on them.
"I had been looking for a remote position for a few months and wasted so much time and energy on fake job leads." Even with the many awareness campaigns, job seekers like Sara are often overwhelmed with the number of scams targeting job seekers. Fortunately, she found FlexJobs, and her job search became streamlined and productive.
Building a Rewarding Career
Sara knew that her next role needed to do more than create balance. She was also determined that it would be a quality position aligned with her career goals. "I didn't want to step backward in my career or be stuck in a position with no growth opportunities."
Fortunately, Sara remained focused on her goals and found a perfect fit in a fully remote role with UnitedHealth Group. Now, Sara can be more present for her family without having to put her career to the side. "I found an organization I can grow with, professionally and personally."

Thriving Throughout All Areas
If you ask Sara how working remotely has affected her life, she'll tell you she's enjoying building better balance in the larger, more apparent areas of her life. "I have more time for the things that are important to me—my kids, my education goals, and my health," she says.
But like most professionals new to remote work, Sara discovered that work flexibility has also enhanced her life in other areas. "I am saving on gas and auto expenses, eating healthier, and I can wear activewear to work, so I go for a jog or do Pilates on my breaks!"
Advocating for Work Flexibility
Now that Sara is thriving in a meaningful role supporting her work-life balance, she has become an advocate for others to make effective changes in their lives. "I have recommended FlexJobs to so many people. It was well worth purchasing the membership."
Her guidance to others looking for more work freedom? Your job search is much more than tailoring a resume and hitting "submit." Sara says, "Don't forget about the value of networking," also stating that, "A flawless resume is useless if no one ever reads it."
Create Your Own Success Story
We hear from job seekers like Sara every day, sharing the enormous impact that flexible work has made on their lives.
If you're ready to build a better work-life balance, take the tour and discover all of the resources that FlexJobs offers to support you in your job search.
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
How to prevent duplicate content in your Shopify store
We’re talking about duplicate content when a product or content appears on more than one URL. This is not ideal, as Google might be confused as to which one is the main one. Therefore, duplicate content can hinder your performance in search.
Thanks to Shopify’s preference for collections, a specific product you add to a collection will be visible on two different URLs:
https://example.com/products/alien-ugly-christmas-sweater
and:
https://example.com/collections/ugly-christmas-sweaters/alien-ugly-christmas-sweater
Not ideal! Luckily, the second one is canonicalized to the first one, but this causes a headache. However, there is a way to ensure that Shopify only shows the original product URL and keeps that as the one linked everywhere.
For this, you need to edit the product-grid-item.liquid file in the Snippets folder and change the following code from (only edit code if you know what you are doing and be sure to make a backup! You should always have a duplicate of your theme ready in case of emergency):
<a href="{{ product.url | within: current_collection }}" class="product-grid-item">
to:
<a href="{{ product.url }}" class="product-grid-item">
With the new Dawn Shopify theme, this workaround is no longer needed, and it will automatically output the correct URL. For other themes or older ones, you still might want to check this workaround.
Working with product variants
Shopify works well with product variants like sizes or colors. You have plenty of options to make different combinations of whatever you like. The thing with variants, of course, is that it’s hard to get these to show in Google properly. Depending on your needs, you might not need that, but if you want the different variants of products to be indexed, you might be better off turning your variants into individual products.
Of course, you need to provide sufficiently different product descriptions and the like if you want them to turn up individually in Google.
Faceted navigation or product filters
Out of the box, Shopify comes with only a handful of filtering options for your online store — no Amazon-style mega menu for you! Luckily, there are ways of getting more filters in your navigation. There are two options: add your custom filters if you are using an Online Store 2.0 compatible theme or add an app to manage it for you.
The first option is relatively straightforward but might be limited, while the second option opens up a world of possibilities. Product filter apps give you more control over how you want to categorize and visualize the faceted navigation. In addition, they also come with intelligent options that make it easier to load filters based on loads of variables dynamically.
Whatever you pick, just make sure that the parameters generated by the faceted navigation don’t end up in the search results pages — block them in the robots.txt liquid file with a disallow rule.
Here’s an example of a faceted URL :
https://www.allbirds.com/collections/mens?bestFor=everyday&hue=red&material=wool
For total control, build your own Shopify theme
Having your own Shopify theme built might not be something you start with, but it offers many opportunities to take your store to the next level. With a self-built theme, you are in control, and you get to define what it looks like, what it needs, and how it functions. You can make it as lean or as complex as possible.
Building your theme is a good idea if you reach the limits of what’s possible with a pre-built theme. There’s only so much customization possible in an existing theme — both in a technical as well as a design sense. You have much more control over the conversion optimization options if you do it yourself.
Building your theme is quite complex, though, and you have to think through what you want and need. You need to plan to make sure that you don’t run into issues later on. Of course, it’s possible to go into the nitty-gritty yourself, but there are also agencies out there that can help you get this done. The developer section of Shopify has ample documentation to learn more about building and adapting store themes.
Technical SEO for Shopify
Much of what you should focus on for Shopify SEO in your day-to-day activities is content-focused. You are working on your product descriptions and content marketing, and you won’t be rebuilding your theme every day. Still, there are several things you can do to improve your Shopify store in a technical SEO sense. Let’s go over a couple of highlights.
Optimize your Shopify store for speed
Being a managed platform, Shopify works hard to provide its users with a speedy experience. There’s a lot of focus on speed at Shopify to help their customers quickly improve those all-important loading times. Fast converts!
If your store loads slowly, customers will leave it and try a competitor. Luckily, Shopify has performance high on the list of priorities. For instance, it comes with an automatic content delivery network (CDN) for hosting your content on servers near your customers. In addition, it has an Online Store Speed report that gives you insights into how well your store is performing when it comes to loading speed. For this, Shopify uses Lighthouse to get real-world results on how your store performs.
While Shopify provides a good platform by default, there are other things you can do to speed up your online store. For one, you should pick a highly optimized, lightweight theme — or get one built based on your specifications. Ensure that you properly optimize images on your site and take care not to use too many photos. Discard those sliders — nobody uses these anyway — and don’t install tens of apps that you hardly use.

Blog on WordPress or Shopify?
WordPress is the king of blogs, while Shopify comes with a basic but competent blogging feature. Wouldn’t it make sense to simply use WordPress to build a blog and tie that into your Shopify store? While WordPress does give you more tools to create a perfect blog, combining these two is probably not worth the hassle. You would be running WordPress on a subdomain which isn’t always the best option. Unless you have particular hard-core needs, the ease of using the built-in blogging tool in Shopify probably makes a lot of sense for most people.
If you already have an excellent WordPress site, you can simply integrate your Shopify store with a plugin like WP Shopify. This does make handling your store a bit different from how you would typically do it. Primarily if you use any third-party apps, many of these won’t function correctly in this manner, due to the limitations of the Shopify API. Luckily, you can at least use Yoast SEO on WordPress and Shopify to optimize your store and site.
Yoast SEO for Shopify
Get more organic traffic by creating the best product and blog content and make your products eligible for rich results in Google. Plus, you’ll get access to our top-notch SEO courses and amazing support team (24/7). Take a look at the Yoast SEO for Shopify product page or get the app now!
How to pick a good Shopify theme
Your theme is an essential part of your online shop. The theme you choose influences so many things — from branding to user experience to conversions. Everything depends on how awesome your Shopify theme is. Luckily, there’s ample choice in the Shopify Theme Store, and many of these should function perfectly fine for your store. Let’s go over a couple of things you should look out for when choosing a theme:
- Determine what you want and need: Are you going to run a store with a single product, or do you want a theme that can handle thousands or more? The theme store has a handy selection of themes for stores with large and small catalogs. What type of design do you need? What options do you need?
- Figure out your budget: Themes in the Shopify theme store run from free to a one-time payment of a couple of hundred dollars. Check what you are willing to spend. Free works for some, but then you hardly get support from the developer. Paid themes often come with more options and tend to be better built.
- Check the themes in the marketplace: There are quite a few themes available, and Shopify has even structured these in several collections like the size of the catalog or the type of industry, like clothing or electronics. You can filter on different properties, like features you need for the product pages or what’s available on the homepage of a shop. Now, there are over 80 themes available in the Shopify Theme Store.
- Read the reviews: You are probably not the first one picking a theme, so it’s a good idea to read the reviews of people who worked with the theme.
- Check the support the developer offers: Every theme comes with documentation and support, but the level and quality of support differ from developer to developer. Read the documentation and check around. Don’t be afraid to ask your questions.
- Make sure the Shopify theme is lean and mean: Many themes want everything and appeal to every store owner. But that means that there’s bound to be stuff built in that you don’t need. Keep in mind that all those features come at a price. Try to find a theme that has low overhead and loads lightning fast.
- Try the demos and check out other stores that run the theme: The Shopify theme store offers demos for all the themes, and you need to check these out. Also, Shopify provides examples of stores that run the specific theme you are looking at. It’s a good idea to take a close look at those online stores and run these through their paces. For instance, run a performance test on web.dev/Measure and see how they do. You’d be surprised at the results.
- Check mobile-friendliness: As consumers increasingly use their mobile devices to shop, it’s essential that your online shop functions correctly. Again, the theme store gives you the possibility to see a mobile view of the theme.
- Test the user experience: The Shopify theme store also gives you a good idea of how users might experience the store. Click around, see the various layouts, check how images load, animations work, the structure of the menu, and how it all feels. You can also try out the theme on your store so you get an even better sense of how the theme feels and performs.
- Pay extra attention to the shopping cart: Does it feel like it wants customers to move through the process as quickly as possible? Or are there elements that take away focus? Other distractions? Is there room to expand the basic cart with upsells/cross-sells, promotions, and the like? Test your cart to see if you can reduce shopping cart abandonment rates.

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1010 Big Bear Yoga Festival Sunday, October 5, 2019 Big Bear Lake, California
Sunday, October 5, 2019
Big Bear Lake, California
www.BigBearYogaFestival.com
https://www.facebook.com/BigBearYogaFestival/
https://www.instagram.com/bigbearyogafest/
https://bigbearyoga.eventbrite.com
Welcome to the Big Bear Yoga Festival!
An amazing day of music, movement, health, vegetarian food & fun! Join us and enjoy amazing teachers for in-depth workshops, tons of classes to choose from and live music. A special post-festival Sunday workshop will top off an amazing weekend with a glittering bow of delight with relaxtion, integration and joy.
You can choose from lectures on health and wellness, a wide range of yoga classes, yummy food, live music and guided meditation along with lots of outside fun like Outdoor Yoga. From the festival location at the Performing Arts Center (PAC) there are miles of hiking trails to explore, plenty of space to relax and find serenity.
Who should come to the festival? What about people new to yoga?
Everyone is welcome! Anyone new to yoga is especially welcome – we have beginning, easy and introductory classes just for you! This is a wonderful opportunity to explore and try something new. More experienced students will also have a wide range of classes to pick from, and an opportunity to deepen your practice. Bring an open mind!
New in 2019:
There are many changes this year, and we are excited to have you there.
The event will again be held again at the Performing Arts Center (PAC) in
In order to keep the festival rolling along, we need to implement a fee structure for some of the festival classes and activities. There will be FREE outside Yoga Classes, and a fee structure.
Scholorships are available for the Saturday fee-based classes.
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