Yesterday, Google started to slowly roll out Google bard to some initial reporters and also Google opened up a waitlist to users in the US and UK. I personally gained access to Bard after writing most of this article but I did gain access to Bard yesterday at 1pm ET. But you can sign up […]
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, […]
Google officially confirmed that the helpful content update needs more time to roll out, but now the link spam update is also past the two-week mark, and it is not done rolling out yet either. John Mueller of Google said these updates may take longer to complete due to the “holidays” and “for safety reasons.” […]
Google’s John Mueller was asked if a spike in crawler activity would be a sign that the helpful content update is rolling out. John said no, as expected because he said no to this question numerous times on previous updates. Here are the relevant set of tweets I am referencing here: No — 🖖 johnmu […]
It took Google about eight days for the Spam update in November, the rollout began on November 3rd. This update targeted content spam measures that violated Google’s webmaster guidelines. It seemed to have a more significant update than the previous spam updates. Here is Google’s announcement of the rollout and its completion: This update is […]
It has been in testing for some time and has been available to select people in the past few weeks. But now Twitter is kicking in broader introduction of the new Spaces tab in the app, which helps improve Spaces detection by highlighting ongoing audio transmissions in the app. We’re working to make it easier […]