Google shares ACA FAQ and marketers give their verdict

Google’s automatically-created assets (ACA) for responsive search ads have been causing confusion amongst marketers. The feature was rolled out in September for general availability in eight languages: Dutch English French German Italian Japanese Portuguese Spanish Now, two months on, the Google team is still receiving questions from perplexed advertisers that it would like to address….

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Meet GO To Any Thing (GOAT): A Universal Navigation System that can Find Any Object Specified in Any Way- as an Image, Language, or a Category- in Completely Unseen Environments

  A team of researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Carnegie Mellon University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of California Berkeley, Meta AI Research, and Mistral AI has developed a universal navigation system called GO To Any Thing (GOAT). This system is designed for extended autonomous operation in home and warehouse environments. GOAT is…

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A New AI Research Releases SWIM-IR: A Large-Scale Synthetic Multilingual Retrieval Dataset with 28 Million Training Pairs over 33 Languages

  Researchers from Google Research, Google DeepMind, and the University of Waterloo introduce SWIM-IR, a synthetic retrieval training dataset encompassing 33 languages, addressing the challenge of limited human-labeled training pairs in multilingual retrieval. Leveraging the SAP (summarize-then-ask prompting) method, SWIM-IR is constructed to enable synthetic fine-tuning of multilingual dense retrieval models without human supervision. SWIM-X…

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Google Actively Working On Fixing Obituary Search Spam

Google is actively working on fixing the problem it was with showing too much spam for obituary-related queries. Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, said “it’s something we’re actively looking at ways to improve.” This was in response to a complaint by Matthew Brown who wrote, “Searching for obituary is both depressing and also a comprehensive…

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Chosun University Researchers Introduce a Machine Learning Framework for Precise Localization of Bleached Corals Using Bag-of-Hybrid Visual Feature Classification

  The most diversified marine environment on Earth is said to be found in coral reefs. Over 4,000 kinds of fish may be found in the coral reefs, home to an estimated 25% of all marine life. In coral, underwater parasite algae, or zooxanthellae, produces vibrant calcium carbonate structures known as reefs. When the water…

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