Views: 3In a LinkedIn Post, former Stripe CTO David Singleton announced his new firm is building a next-gen operating system for AI Agents. This would get over looked elsewhere, but the depth of talent they have brought on board makes this one worth watching. The group is basically a hand picked Tiger-Team of former Googlers, Android, Stripe, Meta, Volvo, and…
Posts published in November 2024
Views: 17The Importance of Topical Authority and Content Clustering For years, Google has encouraged websites to create relevant, engaging content and organize it within a clear, logical structure. But in today’s search landscape, leveraging the power of content clusters is not just a recommendation – it’s essential. Content clustering is essential for building topical authority and staying competitive in search…
Views: 0As seen on the interwebs – dig_mark_memes Brett TabkeAs the CEO and founder of Pubcon Inc., Brett Tabke has been instrumental in shaping the landscape of online marketing and search engine optimization. His journey in the computer industry has spanned over three decades and has made him a pioneering force behind digital evolution. Full Bio Visit Pubcon.com www.webmasterworld.com
Views: 11We’ve seen alot of questionable behavior out of Google the last couple years, from trying to CoOpt the entire web with Amp pages, to trying deprecate competitors 3rd party cookies, but here’s a fresh one that takes the cake. Verge is reporting via Barry Schwartz that Google is now, using it’s browser power to create hi-jacking links and insert…
Views: 56By Zack Kadish AI Overviews are here to stay. Whether you love them, hate them, click on them, scroll past them, laugh at them – it doesn’t really matter. Google has expanded the reach of AI Overviews to almost half the world at this point and has even stated that AI Overviews are driving an increased engagement and user…
Views: 2While the main stream tech press has put the focus on Google divesting of Chrome, there was much more in the The Proposed Final Judgment (PFJ) court filing exec summary. In fact, one that should make every SEO on the planet stand up: … requires Google, among other things, to make its search index available at marginal cost, and…
Views: 0 Brett TabkeAs the CEO and founder of Pubcon Inc., Brett Tabke has been instrumental in shaping the landscape of online marketing and search engine optimization. His journey in the computer industry has spanned over three decades and has made him a pioneering force behind digital evolution. Full Bio Visit Pubcon.com www.webmasterworld.com
Views: 4(added: also try swearing at Google to turn off AI Overviews) -AI Lets start with the easy one, by simply adding “-ai” to your query to have the AI slop stopped. Second, this one has been around since SGE/AIO was turned on at Google. Simply add udm=14 to any query string, and it strips out the ai overviews. Without…
Views: 0Gemini plus subscribers can tell Gemini to remember this and it will. This should help with having to copy prompts over-n-over for reuse. You can then go to the Saved Info page to view what it has saved about. Brett TabkeAs the CEO and founder of Pubcon Inc., Brett Tabke has been instrumental in shaping the landscape of online…
Views: 1According to Bloomberg, the DOJ is set to ask Google to sell off Chrome. The department will ask the judge, who ruled in August that Google illegally monopolized the search market, to require measures related to artificial intelligence and its Android smartphone operating system, according to people familiar with the plans. This is without a doubt, surprising. All the…
Views: 3CBS news is reporting that a 29 year old received threatening messages from Google Gemini. “This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You…
Views: 0In an otherwise slow Search Engine News week (from Chaz Hutton) h/t Tracy Ingram Brett TabkeAs the CEO and founder of Pubcon Inc., Brett Tabke has been instrumental in shaping the landscape of online marketing and search engine optimization. His journey in the computer industry has spanned over three decades and has made him a pioneering force behind digital…
Since the death of the “site” command that showed number of indexed pages, an accurate indexing figure is not possible on Google. That said, it is clear that BlueSky has a very deep indexing within Google. We tried over two dozen user names that we follow, and not only were they all indexed, all of their posts were indexed as well. Clearly, Google likes ’em! There is little doubt that links from Bluesky are having an impact in the Google Index.
Views: 1I have been gnashing my teeth at the main stream tech press since SearchGPT was bolted on to ChatGPT. The main problem is that they seem deeply invested in ginning something up with Google. At first, I thought they didn’t understand what SearchGPT represented. I figured they were just ignorant of the facts, and it would take a good SEO…
Views: 7Remember Ecosia? Umm barely? We’ve not heard that name much stateside in over a decade. If it weren’t for Fabrice Canel mentioning them in his recent Pubcon keynote, I think I would have forgoten about them entirely. None-the-less, Ecosia and Qwant are partnering to build a new search engine that appears to be mainly for Europeans at this point.…
Views: 1Watching OpenAI launch SearchGPT into ChatGPT was fraught with potential issues. I read most all of the main stream tech press about the launch and was quite surprised by everyones take. It became clear quickly, that people are at best bored to death with Google or at worst ready to bolt for the exits with a decent replacement. Here…
Views: 0Google has had a long history of messing around with the status quo near the Christmas shopping season. This year is no different. Google said on Elon Musks X platform on Monday, that it was releasing a major algo update. While many SEO’s are shutting down there X accounts and moving to Threads, and BlueSky due to Musks support…
Currently in desktop search if you ask "where is the Eiffel tower", it will do a normal search. Then if you ask a followup "when was it built", it will jump to something like your house and that's the end of that conversation. Where in the new test, it understands that you are asking about when the Eiffel tower was built.
Views: 73LLM’s like Claude and ChatGPT are very good at SEO related information – it is like the new SEO super power. They have clearly been trained on a wealth of information across the web, including SEO best practices, web development concepts, marketing techniques, and user behavior trends. As an LLM – it is part-n-parcel a wordsmith. This is especially…
Views: 11This is the place to dust off some of the “back-n-the-day” stories that are often told around the fireplace at Pubcon. So lets get started and kick off this series with a confession of sorts – I spiked a huge portion of the internets robots.txt files … hear me out. WebmasterWorld hosted a very active Apache web server forum,…
Views: 4SEO’s are always looking for fresh content sources to flush out offerings. Video has been easy but time consuming. Afterall, just grab your phone an shoot, right? After you spend a day futzing around with editing and ultimately see low results, you quickly abandon it like countless brands have over the years. Enter Generated Video For some time, AI…