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Month: October 2024

ChatGPT

SearchGPT – The Final Search Engine – Is Live for Subscribers of ChatGPT

Widely regarded as the most important new search engine to hit the web since Google, SearchGPT is now live within…

Brett TabkeOctober 31, 2024June 7, 2025
Google

How to Add SearchGPT as Default Engine in your browser

To set SearchGPT as your default search engine in Opera, Chrome, Vivaldi, or Edge: Chrome Use the SearchGPT Extension: Visit…

Brett TabkeOctober 31, 2024May 9, 2025
Google

Google Maps The Latest to Pass 2 Billion Monthly Users – Gets Gemini

On the Alphabet Q3 quarterly report, Google shared that Google Maps had passed 2 billion monthly users. It joins Search,…

Brett TabkeOctober 31, 2024
SearchEngineWorld

SearchEngineWorld – We’re Back! Outta Mothballs and Into-The-Fire!

After a decade on ice, I am excited to announce that we are actively rebooting SearchEngineWorld.com. It will feature daily…

Brett TabkeOctober 31, 2024November 18, 2025
Gemini

Gemini Data, Inc. Sues Google for Trademark Infringement and USPTO Rejects GEMINI Trademark Applications

Google is finding itself i a bit of a row with Gemini Data Inc. with the US PAtent and Trademark…

Brett TabkeOctober 30, 2024February 19, 2025
Google

Google Goes ALL IN on AI Generated Code -Q3 Results Report

Google announced in its q3 earnings call “Today, more than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers.”

Brett TabkeOctober 30, 2024November 5, 2024
Meta - Facebook

Meta Builds AI search engine to cut Google, Bing reliance, the Information reports

…that Meta Platforms has been working on a search engine that crawls the web and to provide conversational AI results. The report does not really say what the scope of the search engine will be, but suggests it will replace Google and Bing as default search engine providers.

Brett TabkeOctober 28, 2024May 9, 2025
OpEd

It is Time for SEO to Evolve @ryanjones

20 years ago pioneering SEOs like Rand Fishkin, Brett Tabke, Bruce Clay, Jill Whalen, and Matt Cutts wrote some of…

Ryan JonesOctober 28, 2024September 19, 2025
Google

Social Media Users Band Together to Manipulate Google Reviews

Disgruntled foodies were ticked off that their favorite restaurants were over run with tourists. So they turned to social media…

Brett TabkeOctober 28, 2024October 28, 2024
ChatGPT

Search: Find on the web menu in ChatGPT flipping to SearchGPT?

(update 10/31/24: yes – we called it. SearchGPT was just bolted onto chatGPT bolted onto ChatGPT) Since its launch, SearchGPT…

Brett TabkeOctober 28, 2024May 9, 2025
Google

Google AI Search Hits Up to 100 Countries

While users in the US have been baking in AI for some time now, much of the rest of the…

Brett TabkeOctober 28, 2024October 29, 2024
Bing

Microsoft AI CEO says Bing has unshipped 27 features to remove complexities

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman recently announced the Bing team is removing 27 features to simplify the search engine. No mention of what features have been removed from the engine.

Brett TabkeOctober 28, 2024October 28, 2024
Google

OpEd: Google Wins if the Justice Department Nixes the Apple Default Search Engine Agreement

We continue to read reporting claiming that the Justice Department will block Google’s deal with Apple to be the default…

Brett TabkeOctober 26, 2024May 9, 2025
Perplexity

Perplexity Says Search Engine Serves 100 Million Queries Per Week

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said Friday (Oct. 25) that the artificial intelligence (AI) search company is serving over 100 million queries per…

Brett TabkeOctober 26, 2024November 5, 2024
Bing

Bing Webmaster Tools Extends 16 Months of Historical Search Performance Data

Bing Webmaster Tools has extended its Search Performance data view from 6 to 16 months, enabling deeper insights for site…

Brett TabkeOctober 25, 2024October 26, 2024
Google

Google Open-Sourced its “SynthID” AI Text Detection Tool

Google is releasing its SynthID AI text and water marking tool. They say that the watermarks in generated text are…

Brett TabkeOctober 24, 2024November 5, 2024
Perplexity

Murdoch’s Dow Jones, New York Post sue Perplexity AI for ‘illegal’ copying of content

    Reuters is reporting that “Dow Jones, New York Post sue Perplexity AI for ‘illegal’ copying of content” News…

Brett TabkeOctober 21, 2024May 9, 2025
Google

Google Kills More SERP Links – This Time Sitelink SearchBox

In a significant shift, Google has announced that it will be removing the “sitelinks” searchbox feature from its search engine…

Brett TabkeOctober 21, 2024November 5, 2024
OpEd

OpEd: SemRush buys ThirdDoor Media The owners of SearchEngineLand/SMX

About that SemRush Buying 3rd Door Media. It happened while a conference was going on – and that may have…

Brett TabkeOctober 21, 2024November 5, 2024
Bing

Bing Webmaster Tools Leans into Generative SEO

Microsoft has introduced Copilot to Bing Webmaster Tools, currently available in limited preview to select users. This AI-powered feature aims…

Brett TabkeOctober 18, 2024October 25, 2024
Google

Nick Fox now in Charge of Search and advertising at Google

  Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, announced a leadership shift: Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Google’s search and ads, will step down…

Brett TabkeOctober 18, 2024April 17, 2025
ChatGPT

OpEd – Where Does OpenAI Go From Here?

When contemplating where OpenAI is heading in the next five years, Sam Altman’s history and demeanor are telling indicators. As…

Brett TabkeOctober 13, 2024May 17, 2025
Google

Is Google Using Users Chrome Data for Search Rankings?

Cindy Krum discusses Google’s manipulation of search and data collection through Chrome, revealing how this affects SEO and user privacy.…

Brett TabkeOctober 12, 2024June 2, 2025
ChatGPT

OpenAI – ChatGPT – SearchGPT Web Crawlers Spiders and Bots

Source: OpenAI Overview of OpenAI Crawlers OpenAI uses web crawlers (“robots”) and user agents to perform actions for its products,…

Brett TabkeOctober 2, 2024November 2, 2024
ChatGPT

SearchGPT – OpenAI Advanced Search Operators

SearchGPT Advanced Search Operators Boolean Operators AND: Finds documents containing all the specified terms. OR: Finds documents containing any of…

Brett TabkeOctober 1, 2024May 9, 2025

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