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Google today announced a new “standalone product token,” Google-Extended, that lets you control whether Bard and Vertex AI can access the content on your site. This seems to be the end result of a “public discussion” Google initiated in July, when the company promised to gather “voices from across web publishers, civil society, academia and…
Advertisers have been encouraged to reevaluate their match type and bidding strategies to effectively optimize costs and maximize campaign performance. The advice was published in a new report conducted by Optmyzr that investigated broad match type vs exact match type. Although researcher and Optmyzr evangelist Navah Hopkins previously strongly supported broad match in favor of…
Google Optimize will not be available after Sept. 30. This means you will no longer be able to create or edit experiments, personalizations, or view experiment reports after this date. However, you will still be able to run A/B tests in Google Analytics 4. Why we care. Moving forward, you will need to use GA4 to…
Open AI has reenabled the Bing search feature it has added to its ChatGPT AI service after temporarily disabling the feature in early July. “ChatGPT can now browse the internet to provide you with current and authoritative information, complete with direct links to sources. It is no longer limited to data before September 2021,” wrote…
Meta AI, announced today, is a new conversational assistant “you can interact with like a person,” according to the company. Microsoft Bing is working with Meta to “integrate Bing into Meta AI’s chat experiences enabling more timely and up-to-date answers with access to real-time search information,” according to Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president and consumer…
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Google will soon block Bard’s shared conversations from appearing in Google Search. Google Bard recently came out with shared conversations that let users publicly share the chats they had with Bard. Soon after Google Search started to discover those URLs, crawl them, and index them. The issue. Gagan Ghotra posted on X a screenshot showing…
How has it only been 25 years? Am I the only one who feels like there can’t have been a world without Google?! The search and technology behemoth has undoubtedly impacted most human experience across the globe in some form or another, but none more so than for the SEOs of the world. The SEO…
Google stunned the PPC community after openly admitting to quietly adjusting ad prices to meet targets. The confession comes eight years after Google Ad executive Jerry Dischler denied the search engine manipulates ad auctions at SMX Advanced in 2015. The backtracking has infuriated digital marker Greg Finn – so much so that he now believes…
Facebook can be sued over claims its advertising algorithm is biased, a California State Court of Appeals has ruled. The decision reverses a previous ruling from 2020 that stated Facebook was protected from accountability under Section 230 – a law that shields online platforms from legal action when users share illegal material. Why we care….
