Google sent merchants an email yesterday informing them that Buy on Google in the United States will be closing on September 26, 2023. Google is piloting a new feature to skip right to the checkout page for merchants, but the Buy on Google will be gone for Google Search, however, will remain on YouTube. This…
AI has been making waves in various industries, revolutionizing how we approach art and many other fields. Artificial intelligence has opened up new possibilities for creative expression and efficiency with its ability to analyze data, learn patterns, and generate content. One area where AI has mainly made its mark is in the realm of game…
Bing announced a number of new features it says are powered by AI in both Bing, Bing Chat, and the Edge sidebar. The features include AI-generated buying guides, AI-generated review summaries, and new price match monitors. Let’s go through each, most of which should be live for many of you. Buying Guides Bing uses AI…
The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a newer proposal in the field. It’s a vision foundation concept that’s been hailed as a breakthrough. It may employ multiple possible user involvement prompts to segment any object in the image accurately. Using a Transformer model that has been extensively trained on the SA-1B dataset, SAM can easily…
This week in search, we had yet another week of heated Google search ranking volatility without a confirmed Google search ranking update. Google said it would drop the Ping endpoints for Google Sitemaps later this year. Some are seeing the new index coverage report in Bing Webmaster Tools. Google said word count is not an…
Chart captions that explain complex trends and patterns are important for improving a reader’s ability to comprehend and retain the data being presented. And for people with visual disabilities, the information in a caption often provides their only means of understanding the chart. But writing effective, detailed captions is a labor-intensive process. While autocaptioning techniques…
