Google hates pop-up ads. The search giant hates pop-ups so much, its ranking algorithm assesses a heavy penalty when its spiders find pops on mobile websites. For now, mobile sites are the only ones penalized for pop-ups, but with Google’s “mobile-first” initiative kicking in...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – When Google launched the forerunner of Search Console in 2005, the product offered only four reports: query stats, crawl stats, page analysis and index stats. Today, Search Console provides users with more than two dozen tools that can help webmasters...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – I’ve always been confused by Kansas City, in no small part because, while the name of the place clearly implies it’s in Kansas, the half of the city stubbornly insists on being in Missouri instead. Mismatched geographic nomenclature aside, I have a new reason...

LOS ANGELES – Eight or nine years ago, long before the names John Steele, Paul Hansmeier and Prenda Law had acquired internet infamy, I sat in the audience at a legal seminar during an adult industry trade show, listening to a panel of attorneys talk about the prospect of suing...

BATH, England – Notorious American metal band Mötley Crüe will celebrate the 30th anniversary of its quadruple-platinum album Girls, Girls, Girls with a re-release Aug. 25. Elektra Records originally released the band’s fourth studio album May 15, 1987. British pleasure products...

LONDON – With the implementation of Britain’s Digital Economy Act 2017 looming (at some still-uncertain point in the future), privacy advocates and IT experts once again are warning the public about the potential for hackers and blackmailers to obtain the same information used to...

FREDERICTON, Canada – According to researchers from the University of New Brunswick (UNB), women who watch porn develop “unrealistic expectations” regarding men’s sexual performance and prowess. “Intercourse is shown to last longer than average, men sustain erections longer and...

MIAMI LAKES, Fla. – In a flash of entirely predictable un-originality, CamSoda has offered erstwhile White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci a job overseeing the company’s communication strategy. The rationale for making the offer, obviously, is to garner publicity...

LONDON – Multinational adult entertainment conglomerate MindGeek has become the boogeyman in the contentious U.K. debate about age-verification and internet porn. Beginning in April 2018, adult websites must verify all U.K. citizens requesting access are age 18 or older. Websites...

By Jay Kopita BURBANK, Calif. – The ANME Founders Expo is a trade show I return to and support year after year. I have yet to find a pleasure products expo better than this one, where industry insiders casually meet and do business with so many decision-makers and creative types...