The battle for the car continues. And autonomous vehicles will be ready to display personalized ads. It's also why Android Auto is important for Google -> Ford filed a patent application for “in-vehicle advertisement presentation,” which relies on collecting a host of data on

Yep, 'back button hijacking' is still a thing. And I'm not sure there's a person out there that enjoys having their back button hijacked... My latest post covers the topic in detail, including the potential impact to Navboost, Google's spam policies and if any apply, how

Wow, I'm sure iPhone users can't wait for this. :) -> Testing the Apple Intelligence beta shows the pre-release software still has a long way to go, with hallucinations, marking spam emails as priority, and more "Like the time it made up the idea that I’m teaching at UC

I've always said that Google Lens is killer functionality, but so many still don't use it (or even know it's there). Will be interesting to see if people switch to Apple Visual Intelligence versus Lens, or if this gets more people using visual search overall. Again, it's pretty

Great work from Rich Sanger SEO 🦙, and it's closer to what I'm seeing with my own AI Overview tracking across companies. "21.1% of Queries Trigger Overviews: Out of 11,163 analyzed queries, 21.1% (2,358) triggered an AI Overview, with each summary containing an average of 8.9

Soft paywall -> Newsquest hits 100,000 digital subscribers and £500,000 per month "Currently visitors to most of its websites can read up to 30 articles per month without paying, although some stories are for subscribers only. Digital subscriptions, which typically cost £4.99

Internal linking is important, and can impact rankings of those downstream urls, esp. from prominent pages -- like a homepage of a major news publisher :) -> The Washington Post is giving its homepage a facelift as it seeks a turnaround "The new homepage has doubled the amount

"OpenAI’s reasoning-focused AI is coming sooner than we thought." -> OpenAI aims to release its reasoning-focused Strawberry AI within two weeks as a model users can pick in ChatGPT; it will lack multimodal capabilities And 10-20 seconds? "What most differentiates Strawberry

New Chrome experiment -> Pick up where you left off with some help from Chrome "Chrome is experimenting with suggesting pages to revisit based on tabs you opened up on your other devices. This can be especially helpful when you’re, say, browsing a website while at the office

The time has come (after being replaced by INP as a CWV) -> Chrome ends support for First Input Delay (FID) "In January, Chrome announced its intention to officially end support for FID. Well, that time has finally come, and as of today FID is no longer supported in Chrome

The fine was levied 7 years ago. Google just lost the appeal -> Google loses fight against $2.7 billion EU antitrust fine "The commission fined Google in 2017 for using its own price comparison shopping service to gain an unfair advantage..." reuters.com/technology/eu-…

Oof -> Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public data to train AI, with no opt-out option because it is not required to do so under privacy law abc.net.au/news/2024-09-1…

Like the AP's AI sports recaps (which started a few years ago) -> ESPN’s AI-generated sports recaps are already missing the point "It’s using Microsoft AI to write each story, with humans only involved in reviewing each recap for “quality and accuracy.” theverge.com/2024/9/10/2424…

Be careful with Auto Ads. Your ad situation can get out of control. And now it's expanding to three additional languages. BEWARE. From Google's doc about Auto Ads: "Automatically place new ads based on different elements such as your page layout, the amount of content on your

New Episode: Does hijacking the back button game Navboost? Or is it the tip of the iceberg with aggressive and deceptive advertising for those sites (and already causing problems algorithmically)? And should Google issue manual actions?? All good questions. I cover all of this,

Amazon's AI Search Ads -> Amazon quietly brings ads to its genAI search engine Rufus "Amazon declined to share with Adweek a description or image of what the ads will look like within Rufus. However, it noted that Rufus may generate accompanying text for ads based on the context

Survey of 2,000. I've been explaining this forever based on how my kids search (and their friends) -> Gen Z moves on from ‘Googling’—TikTok emerges as the new search engine "Bernstein, using an April 2024 survey by Forbes Advisor and Talker Research of 2,000 Americans, noted

Not the same as the cache link but it's something. :)