Google has updated the help document for file types indexable by Google to include Comma-Separated Values (.csv) in the list. I doubt Google was not bale to index those files before, and I wonder if this was just a documentation change but not a change in what Google was able to index? The help document…
Up to 94% of customers say that a negative review or social media comment has convinced them to avoid a company, according to an InMoment study. But it’s actually much worse than that today. Negative reviews only used to impact the person finding them. With AI taking over more and more platforms being used, all…
Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine, is planning to introduce native advertising in related questions, according to Adweek. How it will work. Related questions, which include links to sources, account for 40% of Perplexity’s queries. So Perplexity plans to add relevant, related brand-sponsored questions along with organic questions. Brand safety. It will be “a paramount priority,”…
With Google’s antitrust jury trial underway, Google claimed the U.S. Department of Justice has a “narrow view” of the ad tech market and that advertisers and publishers have many alternatives. However, the evidence suggests otherwise. Google’s misleading claim of “hundreds of competitors.” While many ad tech providers exist, Google dominates key market segments such as…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google has new structured data carousel beta details for rich results. Google now lets you opt out of place entities in page insights. Google Business Profiles customer…
Google has rolled out a new Ad Review Centre for AdSense, Ad Manager and AdMob. Five major changes have been added to the platform – all aimed at improving the user experience for advertisers. Below is a breakdown of what’s new. New Features: Larger area to view ads. The new Ad Review Centre features an improved…
Meta Platforms’ newest social media offering Threads has over 175 million monthly active users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed on Wednesday, ahead of its first anniversary. A challenger to X, formerly known as Twitter, Threads hit app stores on July 5 last year, timed to win users from the de facto micro-blogging site during its…
Facebook’s extensive monitoring of its users’ online activities has been exposed in a new study. The research conducted by Consumer Reports indicates that, on average, an astonishing 2,230 companies actively share data about each user with the social networking app. In some instance, users had their data shared with Facebook by as many as 7,000…
The GPT-4 was tested using a public Turing test on the internet by a group of researchers from UCSD. The best performing GPT-4 prompt was successful in 41% of games, which was better than the baselines given by ELIZA (27%), GPT-3.5 (14%), and random chance (63%), but it still needs to be quite there….
There are new reports that a booking/appointment system run by Thumbtack, a local search service, is automatically adding its booking links and service to Google Business Profiles. Well, you can opt out, if you don’t want it. But I am sure most businesses will have no clue this was added to their local listings in…