Over the past decade, voice assistants have dynamically entered our lives. Names like Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, and Cortana will most likely ring a bell. In any case, it was route before these names that the idea of a voice aide was exposed.
As far as back in 1962, IBM launched the first-ever voice assistant, named Shoebox. If you hadn’t guessed it, its size went by its name. It could do the mathematical functions and recognize digits 0-9 and 16 spoken words. Then came Harpy with a vocabulary of a three-year-old, it could recognize 1,011 words.
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Are you familiar with the term grey hat SEO? If you are running a website and using SEO to market yourself, there are a few techniques that you need to know. They include back hat SEO, white hat SEO, and grey hat SEO.
The black and white terms derived from the old cowboy movies where the good guys wore white hats and the bad guys wore black hats. When it comes to SEO, black hat techniques are unethical ways to achieve high ranking which can cost you a lot if you get caught by Google.
Marketing trends come and go; that’s a fact. It’s what makes this industry exciting. There’s always something new to try. And if you’re smart, you’ll get on some of these trends before any of your competitor does, and reap all the benefits.
With the new year and new decade coming in just a few days, we thought it might be useful to share with you the top marketing trends we can expect this 2020. Here are some of the biggest ones you should be looking out for.
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