The real impact of Google’s RankBrain on search traffic

The rise and advances of new automation and artificial intelligence software algorithms, including those that learn predictive models from historical data, are making increasingly consequential predictive decisions. Such decisions are having an impact on the lives of people in domains as diverse as digital media, advertising,finance, credit, employment, education and criminal sentencing. Marketers and companies need to understand that we are entering into a new generation of optimizing websites for search engines. While many principles and tactics stay the same in search engine optimization, we cannot deny the current path…

The Tunisian Women’s Rights Movement : From Nascent Activism to Influential Power-broking

Tunisian women have received significant attention for their active participation in preserving and extending women’s rights since 2011. However, their activism and latest achievements should be considered not a recent phenomenon but rather part and parcel of a distinctive local history that has included women as agents of change. This book examines Tunisian women’s lived experiences, as individuals and as a group, within a sociohistorical framework that uncovers the enduring feminine footprint over centuries and eventually underpins and defines their most recent fight for gender equality in postrevolutionary Tunisia. The…

Francophone immigrants face greater challenges outside Quebec

Ottawa and Ontario are way behind their targets for this demographic of workers. Cheikh Diagne thought he would have an advantage in Canada’s job market by having one of Canada’s official languages as his mother tongue. Instead, the francophone newcomer from Senegal was disappointed few Canadian employers recognize his skills and expertise as a banker and economist, and most see him only fit for jobs in call centres and customer service. “French is not a real official language in Canada, definitely not outside of Quebec. Although it is my first…

Tunisia: New Frontier for African Startups

Tunisia is emerging as the next eHealth hub and may just give Kenya and South Africa a run for its mone It’s the age of the startup and the business savvy are identifying local solutions to global problems. The next big thing may be lurking in a small Kenyan back office or a Tunisian coffee shop – ready to join Africa’s extensive startup ecosystem with a healthy investment. Western solutions have long been used for African problems but with vastly different infrastructure and diverse populations, these approaches haven’t been successful.…

Tunisia detains six IS suspects

Tunisia has been under a state of emergency since November 2015, when a suicide bombing in Tunis claimed by IS killed 12 presidential guards Tunisia has detained six people in the central region of Kasserine suspected of belonging to a group linked to the Islamic State group, authorities said Tuesday. The announcement comes after a jihadist leader was killed in a National Guard operation on Sunday night in Kasserine’s Mount Salloum area near the border with Algeria. Judiciary spokesman Sofiene Sliti said the six suspects were detained on Monday as…