• Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Core Update Volatility, Helpful Content Update Gone, Dangerous Google Search Results & Google Ads Confusion

    This week, we covered that the Google March 2024 core update is still rolling out 38 days later, but we saw more volatility this week. Just a reminder that the Google helpful content update no longer exists. Gary Illyes from

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    The Fallout TV show includes a big map of vaults, and you can now check it out as a cool interactive Google Earth overlay

    Warning: Spoilers for series one of Amazon's Fallout TV show lie ahead.So, unless you delibrately taking this slowly or have been really busy, odds are you've had a chance to sit down and watch Amazon's Fallout TV show by this point. As you'd expect, it's got a lot to offer in terms of cool background details and references for your friendly neigbourhood Fallout nerd, with one of these being a big map of vaults that you can now check out in interactive form.Yep, nestled amid the array of little...

  • Edinburgh hotels: 15 new hotel developments in the pipeline, including Princes Street, St Andrews Square and Haymarket

    Edinburgh’s hotel sector seems to be growing all the time. Several new hotels have arrived on the scene in recent months, including Hearts’ first-of-its-kind Tynecastle Park Hotel inside the club’s stadium. Edinburgh’s Waldorf Astoria - better known as The Caley Hotel - changed hands for £85 million. Industry experts expect the Capital to remain the highest performing hotel market outside of London in 2024. And there are more hotels being built, including several in hospitality hotspots like...

  • 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...

  • What Did Israelis Search For On Google During The Iranian Attack?

    What did thousands of Israelis type into Google’s search engine during the tense hours of the Iranian attack overnight Motzei Shabbos? Ynet reviewed the data and found that they were searching for “Tehillim” and “Tikkun HaKlali.” Already on Motzei Shabbos, in the hours ahead of the impending attack, there was an increase in the search […]

  • 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.

  • Head of Google Search demands urgency as growth slows

    Google Senior VP Prabhakar Raghavan blames increasing competition, costs and regulation for a 'new operating reality'.

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    Fedora 40 is now available and includes more spins than ever before

    The Fedora team has unleashed its latest version of the desktop Linux distribution and this time around there are even more spins available to try.What is a "spin"? Essentially, it's a different take on the original. Also: AlmaLinux 9.4 beta is out: 4 reasons to consider it for your desktopConsider this: Fedora defaults to the GNOME desktop but not everyone wants to use that particular environment. Or maybe you have a particular need to fill with your desktop operating system. With Fedora,...

  • How one power-hungry leader destroyed Google search

    Google's search engine was once the crown jewel of the Internet, but one executive's power grab led to its spectacular downfall, reports tech writer Edward Zitron in his newsletter article, titled "The Man Who Killed Google Search." In 2019, Google's ads team raised a "code yellow" alarm due to declining search revenue growth. — Read the rest

  • AirPlay for hotel TVs now rolling out, so no more touching that remote

    Kicking back and watching a bit of telly in a hotel suite is a nice change from doing it at home, especially while sporting a soft robe on a king-sized bed after a relaxing afternoon sipping cocktails by the pool. However, with that comes a caveat. Despite the hotel likely having a great record when it comes to clenliness, there's always the spectre of the remote control. Who last touched it? And what did they last touch? You know what I mean, right? Speedy whole home...

  • Google Notes On Search Won't Necessarily Go Away In May

    There have been some people noticing that the Google Notes On Search labs experiment has an end date of May 2024 and thus they are expecting Notes on Search to be turned off by then. Just because it has that end date listed, it does not mean the labs experiment will end on that date.As a reminder, the Google Search Generative Experience SGE labs experiment had listed an end date of December 2023. But then came December and Google decided to remove the date and extended SGE as a labs...

  • Japan presses Google to modify search ad practices

    The Japan Fair Trade Commission is preparing to formally advise Google to change its advertising practices, after an investigation found it imposed anti-competitive restrictions through a partnership with Yahoo Japan, now a subsidiary of Line, Kyodo News reported.