Google is now promoting its AI Overviews directly in Google Discover. As users scroll through the Google home page, they may see a sample of a question that Google thinks its AI Overviews in Google Search can do a nice job of answering. What it looks like. Here is a screenshot of my Google Discover…
Samsung, Google, Oppo and other smartphone manufacturers are now betting big on AI features. Apple is also about to enter the race with Apple Intelligence that’s arriving with iOS 18.1. As AI is evolving rapidly, our reliance on this tech is also increasing and it turns out companies are planning to use it in…
Google’s product data specification requirements guarantee that all product data submitted to the Merchant Center is formatted correctly to optimize success for both Shopping ads and organic Shopping listings. Each year, the search giant updates these specifications in a bid to try and improve shopping on its platform. The updates for 2024 have now been…
Google has updated its search quality raters guidelines for the first time in 2023 with a number of updates including simplifying the needs met scale, adding some more modern examples and some other minor changes. The last update to this document was 11 months ago on December 15, 2022, which was a much larger update…
Google has fixed the issues with the Search Console link report we reported a couple of weeks ago. The issue was the number of links being reported dropped drastically for some site owners. Resolved. The issue is now resolved. I noticed the links increasing in the report this morning, and then John Mueller, Google’s Search…
Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, said if you put similar keywords in separate ad groups that can essentially make both eligible to be considered for auction selection. It would essentially remove AI-theming (if that is a word) because they are in different ad groups. Now, Ginny is not recommending this but it is an option…
It’s hard to believe it’s only been a year since ChatGPT burst onto the scene and captured the world’s attention with its remarkably adept chatbot that generates human-like text on command. Once users moved on from trying the chatbot for silly things like writing jokes or letters in Shakespeare’s voice, more useful applications emerged. Teachers…
Microsoft has been criticised after publishing an AI-generated obituary for NBA star Brandon Hunter. The former Boston Celtics and Orlando Magic player passed away suddenly this week, aged 42, after collapsing during a hot yoga class in Orlando, Fl. Shortly after his passing, fans were shocked to see the father of three described as “useless”…
In the early 1600s, the officials running Durham Cathedral, in England, had serious financial problems. Soaring prices had raised expenses. Most cathedral income came from renting land to tenant farmers, who had long leases so officials could not easily raise the rent. Instead, church leaders started charging periodic fees, but these often made tenants…
Google’s November 2023 core update is now rolling out and may take up to two weeks to complete. This is the fourth broad core algorithm update of 2023. the first core update of 2023 was the March 2023 core update, which started rolling out on March 15 and was completed on March 28. The second core update…