• Why your Google search results may look different

    Next time you turn to Google with a question, you may be given an “experimental” answer.

  • Why your Google search results may look different

    Next time you turn to Google with a question, you may be given an “experimental” answer.

  • Meta AI adds Google Search results

    Meta AI will point users to web search results of Google or Microsoft Bing for queries that require the most up-to-date answers.

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    Google Workspace admins can migrate Slack messages to Google Chat using a new tool

    Google announced that admins can now transfer messages and other data from Slack to Google Chat using a new tool. Workspace admins can also get notifications for Google Meet application load failures.

  • How AI Companions Can Be Helpful AND Harmful

    It is not easy finding that special someone. It never has been, even if you’re rich, beautiful, and have strong social skills. Every generation encounters new challenges in their pursuit of love and companionship. I know I have. I’ve even … Continue reading →

  • Google Search With 16 Shopping Ads

    It is good to have choices but too many choices might not be good, said some wise man. Well, here is Google giving you 16 choices of bikes in the shopping ad spot at the top of the Google Search results.This was spotted by Mike Hardaker and he shared this screenshot with me on X - here it is:I tried to replicate it, but I was unable to. I suspect this is some sort of weird bug?I mean, I was able to see the normal carousel ads:I also saw the right side ads:And those new vertical tall ads:This...

  • Google Responds To Concerns Over Chrome IP Masking

    A week ago, Anu Adegbola wrote a fabulous piece on some new privacy changes that may be coming to Google Chrome in the future named Chrome IP masking and how that may impact advertisers. Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, responded to those concerns, saying, "Chrome has not made any recent updates to its IP protection proposal."Anu detailed out the three top-level concerns advertisers may have with Google Chrome IP masking:(1) For ad location targeting, you’ll only have the option to target...

  • Google AI Writing Some Search Knowledge Panels

    Google has for a long time used AI to write some knowledge panels. But now Google is labeling some of these AI written knowledge panels with "Al overviews are experimental" as a disclaimer. This may show up for both SGE and non-SGE results, I believe.Johannes Beus at Sistrix posted about this, sharing this screenshot:You can see that one shows the AI written section and one does not. I tried it myself logged in to SGE and it did not give me the AI written knowledge panel:That being said, I do...

  • Who is Prabhakar Raghavan and why is he accused of killing Google Search?

    A study earlier this year by German academics verified what many users of Google search had long suspected: the search engine, once the gold standard for such activities, had been getting worse. The reason, the researchers concluded, is that too much low-quality content was being optimized to appear higher inRead Entire Article

  • Google accused of making it harder to search for rival

    In a complaint to the EU, email firm Tuta says it suddenly became much less visible in Google search.

  • Report: How Prabhakar Raghavan Killed Google Search

    Ed Zitron wrote a piece named The Man Who Killed Google Search. It goes through in detail how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to him running it into the ground, he said.Everyone in the SEO/SEM space is talking about this article and I came back to the SEO on fire. If you have not read it yet, you should.Update: I added Google's statements to this below:I'll...

  • Daily showers could be harmful for skin health, some experts claim

    Daily showers aren’t necessary and may not have any health benefits, according to some experts. Proponents of less frequent showers claim that most people take them every day — or multiple times a day — only because this has become a societal norm. "Why are we washing? Mostly because we’re afraid somebody else will tell