Views: 7It’s no secret that many people loath Google’s AI-generated search results. The rollout has been met with frustration, users complaining about lies, misleading answers, poor-quality summaries, and AI responses crowding out traditional organic links. This dissatisfaction has led to an ongoing effort to find ways to disable or bypass AI-driven search results entirely. Today, we stumbled upon a rather…
Posts published in January 2025
Views: 20In light of Google’s announcement that all reCAPTCHA keys must be migrated to a Google Cloud (with fees of $8 per 100k validations) by the end of 2025, website owners are reassessing their security measures. This development may lead to increased costs and necessitates action to ensure protection against bots. Consequently, lets explore alternative CAPTCHA solutions. Mostly Free reCaptcha…
Views: 7Are you looking to generate more traffic and improve your conversions? Start paying attention to and optimizing for your branded keywords! What is Branded Search and Why Care? A branded search query is one that contains your brand name. This sounds easy but in reality, it is huge. Imagine the situation in which a person starts typing your brand…
Views: 1Integrating DeepSeek R1: A Bold Move for Perplexity AI Perplexity AI has made a significant leap by integrating DeepSeek R1, a Chinese open-source AI model, into its platform. By hosting DeepSeek R1 on US-based servers, Perplexity AI ensures compliance with Western data security standards while offering an uncensored AI experience. Currently, the model is available for iOS and web…
Views: 1Introduced last year in a restricted beta roll out, Google has opened up Meridian to the unwashed PPC masses. What is Meridian Supposed to Solve? Marketing attribution has never been more of a guessing game – especially with increasing privacy restrictions, evolving digital behaviors, and Googles boundless ambition to kill third party cookies. Google claims Meridian, built with Bayesian-based…
Views: 17 User-generated content (UGC) has been around on the internet for a long time. User-generated content is one of the reasons people love and also hate the internet. Whether you’re sharing a funny meme, reviewing a comment, watching an unboxing of a new product – all of this is considered user generated content. There’s also the fear of trolling…
Views: 0Google is updating how URLs appear in mobile search results to provide a cleaner and more streamlined look. Breadcrumbs, previously part of the “site hierarchy” feature, will no longer display on mobile search results due to space constraints on smaller screens. This change is rolling out globally across all languages and regions where Google Search is available. On desktop,…
Views: 1According to numerous reports, Google has started requiring users to turn on javascript to search. It is widely regarded as an interim step before Google goes full AJax driven SERPS. If you do attempt to search with js off, you get a warning screen: Related: 7 SEO Predictions for 2025 Brett TabkeAs the CEO and founder of Pubcon Inc.,…
Views: 0Log out of Bing/Microsoft and do a search for Google. Bing has expanded their old ‘Google’ search to a new level. The screenshot about shows the new interface. Looks a little “Googly” now, but it is over a decade old. Search String Used to Produce above screen shot h/t WindowsLatest Brett TabkeAs the CEO and founder of Pubcon Inc.,…
Views: 1According to several, reports, Google is testing replacing the traditional Serp with a 100% AI take over. While the Verge and others reported on it awhile ago, users India are now seeing it show up randomly live in tests. Apparently, the entire page consists of AI Overview, People also ask, Google links, and People also search for. (developing story)…