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Views: 0Well, well, well. The BBC is very upset that an AI startup might be using its content to train a model. So upset, in fact, that it’s threatening legal action. According to The Guardian, Auntie Beeb sent a formal letter to Perplexity AI for allegedly downloading freely available on-the-web BBC articles. Hmm, it is something that’s been happening on…
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Google just rolled out public testing for
Search Live, a feature inside its AI Mode that lets users update and personalize answers in real-time. It surfaces live sports, weather, and stock updates. Android users can trigger it with a swipe gesture from inside Gemini...
...has agreed to invest $500 million over the next decade to overhaul its global compliance systems. This move is part of a proposed settlement in a shareholder-led antitrust lawsuit filed in 2021 by a Michigan pension fund.
Views: 26The U.S. government’s antitrust case against Google is reaching its final phase (Reuters / NPR), and data access is emerging as a key component in addressing a remedy. Federal Judge Amit Mehta, who ruled last August that Google illegally protected its monopoly in search, is now considering how to restore legitimate competition. Closing arguments set for this Friday (30…
Views: 12In a very closely watched case involving trademarked keywords in advertising against Google, the supreme court passed on hearing the case. The case had been in the Ninth Circuit where they had held that buying a competitors keywords was not a violation of trademark and that it did not violate the Lanham Act. At the heart of this case…
Views: 9MediaPost reporting that the first of two law suits brought by Rumble has been dismissed on grounds it fell outside the time frame alotted for such suites. Background Rumble sued Google in January 2021, claiming two forms of unfair advantage for YouTube: Rigged search results to boost YouTube rankings over Rumble Android licensing tied to mandatory YouTube installs Timeline…
Google’s own court-filed slide deck just spilled more tea on Navboost, and the details punch a few holes in years of SEO guesswork. The newly released trove goes further, mapping more than 100 raw signals into a ranking stew that still leans on old-school PageRank while layering in LLM toys like RankEmbed, re-ranking Twiddlers, and the rumored mysterious quality metric called Q*Star.
Views: 146Before Google trained on half the web anyway, it floated six opt-out tiers that would have let publishers throttle indexing, training, or SGE display. The newly unsealed DOJ remedies slide lays out those options. And proof that meaningful publisher control was little more than a talking point. (No public discourse was held involving publishers that we are aware of).…
Views: 21There was a search related story on WSJ that had some eyebrow raising quotes in it. The Wall Street Journal article “AI Has Upended the Search Game. Marketers Are Scrambling to Catch Up” highlights the profound impact of artificial intelligence on search behavior and digital marketing strategies. As AI-generated summaries increasingly appear atop search results, traditional SEO tactics are…
Views: 9Y Combinator just stepped into the Google antitrust fight – and they’re not mincing words. In a newly filed amicus brief, the startup accelerator backs the U.S. Department of Justice and state attorneys general in calling for strong remedies against Google’s long-standing dominance in search and ad tech. YC argues that the monopolistic death-grip Google has created over the…