I posted the monthly Google webmaster report for June and as you can imagine, it was a big month. Google launched the Search Generative Experience for some. We posted some of the early complaints on SGE; it is missing the result count, there is very little personalization, and the experiment ends in December 2023. Google […]
The all new and exciting Google Search Generative Experience is now rolling out as a labs experiment to some early waitlisted users. I should have access by now, but I’m offlineI wrote this yesterday before I was able to play with it (which is why this news is not in my videowhich I recorded earlier […]
This week, we had the big Google Marketing Live event where Google showcased more of how ads will work on the new Google Search Generative Experience. Google launched the new Search Generative Experience to some searchers last minute (so this is not in my video). Google also showed us how AI would help advertisers build […]
Google Search has started to roll out the first broad core update of the 2023 year, and this one is named the March 2023 broad core update. It began on March 15, 2023, at about 10:30 am ET and can take about two weeks to roll out, Google wrote. This update touched down fast and […]
Microsoft fully launched the quality updates in version 96 of Bing AI Chat on February 28th. It is a tad late, but it is live and reduces cases where Bing refuses to reply and instances of hallucination in answers. Microsoft initially said this quality updates would go live Thursday, February 23rd, but it took a […]
As a reminder, since April, Bing has been slowly testing a new BingBot user agent, rolling it out to more slowly percentages of crawls over the year. it should have rolled out to 100% of all crawls last month. But now Fabrice Canel said this week that it is near 100%, and an announcement is […]
Even great things come to an end sometime, and that time has officially arrived for Live. If you’re one of our clients who uses Live, you might know that we already started reaching out to you to ensure a smooth transition. If you’re not, this article will provide a little more context and if you […]
After developing the system in partnership with the Department of Justice for more than a year, Meta has now released the first stage of live deployment for its Variance Reduction System (VRS) for housing adswhich is designed to reduce bias, and increase the equitable distribution of ads across Meta’s apps. As explained in this overview, […]
Words: Diamond Dave Images: Getty Images After support band, The Twilight Sad, leave the stage of this sold out show, there are no tunescoming from the PA or a DJ encouraging the crowd to dance, only the sound of a thunder storm andstrobe lights flicking like lightning which seems just perfect. Robert Smith stalks the […]
Google has published a new document named a guide to Google search ranking system. That document outlines the “notable” ranking updates that are currently live and running for Google Search and also some of the historical updates that are either no longer in use or incorporated into other algorithms. So, Google’s Danny Sullivan said these […]