In other news, I had no idea ICQ was still around.

This is fascinating... nytimes.com/2024/06/06/tec…

So have people transitioned to the X Twitter icon on their websites from the blue Twitter bird? The X just looks so much worse and isn't as intuitive as the bird... but on the other hand, I don't want it to look outdated by using the bird either.

This still is true... why does everything on every menu have rocket, rocket, rocket LOL.

I have come to the conclusion that Google is useless for anything to do with video game searches. For an active game with recent/upcoming expansions, 8 of the first 10 links Google gives are 11-13 YEARS old and the information is completely wrong for today's version of the game.

If you are going to use AI for Amazon product "action shots", you should make sure AI didn't add a 10 year old chugging a bottle of beer around the campsite LOL

I wonder just how many people are still using legacy Google shortlinks they have forgotten about. theverge.com/2024/7/19/2420…

This is what Lululemon thinks makes the Canadian Olympic team "feel good". The 80s called and wants its fabric print back. (Yes, these glorified pajamas ala Walmart are real).

Okay, seeing a penitentiary recommended by Google as one of the top sights to see in this city definitely makes you do a double take. It is apparently a museum too.

It is a huge problem that AdSense Auto Ads will not allow site owners to remove the huge ad they place in the header/nav area. It doesn't show up as an area to exclude, its been like this since launch. Not everyone has the skill to individually add ads without Auto Ads.

Try and spot the news content amidst all the advertisements and sponsored posts on the front page of my local news site Times Colonist today o.O There is a point where the user experience is just so bad… and it threw up a full page overlay ad after I screenshotted too.

This is not a good look Lululemon... unless the Olympic team look you were going for is to dress our athletes like overly fatty bacon LOL

We are excited to announce Search Console recommendations, a new feature that provides websites with optimization opportunities and suggests actions they can take to improve their presence on Google Search. Check out our blog post developers.google.com/search/blog/20…

I am fine with Wordpress plugins doing an occasional reminder to do a review... but no, when I installed a plugin a few mins earlier, that's not remotely in the realm of using it "for a while now" to want to leave a review. They'd get better ROI on that CTA if they waited a week.

No, a news site should never refer to a plane crash where everyone dies as "stunning"... EVER. How much do you want to bet they ran that headline through an AI generator to entice more clicks. usatoday.com/story/news/wor…

Here we go!

There's an ongoing issue with ranking in Google Search that's affecting a large number of search results. We've identified the root cause. This issue is unrelated to the ongoing core update rollout announced yesterday. We're working on a fix. status.search.google.com/incidents/42XC…