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Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket: Everything you need to know about one of the most powerful figures of the Middle Ages
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Updated: 14:02, 16 March 2021
Thomas Becket was one of the most powerful figures of his time, serving as Royal Chancellor and later as Archbishop of Canterbury, but his murder at Canterbury Cathedral changed the course of history forever.
Initially a friend of King Henry II, Becket became engaged in a bitter dispute with the King which culminated in his shocking assassination by knights in 1170.
Canterbury Cathedral
To mark the 850th anniversary of this historic crime, The British Museum is staging a major exhibition about Becket s tumultuous journey from a London merchant s son to Archbishop.
Google algorithms vs Google penalties, explained by an ex-Googler
This former Google quality analyst explains the difference between Google s algorithms, manual actions, quality and penalties.
Pedro Dias on December 23, 2020 at 12:01 pm
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Since its inception, Google has made its way towards being the most sought after input box on the whole web. This is a path that’s usually monitored with an ever-increasing curiosity, from web professionals, taking everything apart in an attempt to understand what makes Google tick and how search works, with all its nuts and bolts.
I mean, we’ve all experienced the power that this little input box yields, especially when it stops working. Alone, it has the power to bring the world to a standstill. But one doesn’t have to go through a Google outage to experience the power that this tiny little input field exerts over the web and, ultimately, our lives if you run a website, and you’ve made your way up in search rankings, you l