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Google Gives you 3 free Veo 3 Attempts This Weekend
Want to try Veo 3 and don’t have a subscription to Google Gemini plus? Now is your chance to use…
OpEd : Brace Yourself – It’s about to Get Real – Googles Final Solution?
The next act out of Google isn’t going to be business as usual. It is time someone cautiously suggested to…
No – OpenAI is Not Using Google for General Search Index
Lots of speculation (wishful thinking), alleging that OpenAI and ChatGPT is using Google for their search index. We’ve been fighting…
Google’s “Web Guide Labs” Isn’t for SEOs – And That’s the Point
Google launched a new initiative this week called Web Guide Labs, and it’s not what many expected. While it lives…
Google Adds AI Summaries to Discover – What It Means for SEO
Google is now testing AI-generated summaries in the Discover feed. This is a feature that could further erode organic site…
Adobe Survey Says It’s ON : Google vs ChatGPT
While watching the arrival of “AI” on to the tech scene, it sure seemed like many in the tech press…
Cell Phones Out -> AI In: What Google’s Latest Move Means for Your Child’s Future
Just as many schools are banning cell phones, Google releases Gemini for it’s school program. Google has announced that its…
Googles Imagen 4 Now in Gemini API and AI Studio
Google has officially integrated Imagen 4 text-to-image model into the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. Why It Matters: Fast…
AHREFS Study – Stunning New Report on AIO and AI Search Engines
..a must read comprehensive study analyzing 55.8m AIOs across 590m searches. The stunning report includes some sobering statistics for SEO’s. Top 50 domains get 30% of all AIO shoutouts…
Fresh Doc Dump: PageRank, Navboost, and RankEmbed: DOJ Papers Outline Google’s Stack
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.
AdSense Enters Chatbots: Google’s Quiet Move to Monetize AI Conversations
Google is quietly laying the groundwork to monetize conversational AI, starting with chatbot-based AdSense ads. After testing ad integrations with select AI startups like iAsk and Liner in 2024, Google is now inviting more chatbot developers to embed AdSense-style ads directly into their conversational experiences.
Half the Web Opted Out of Google AI Training! Google Trained Anyway.
A court filing just confirmed what many web publishers feared: Google’s opt-out tool for AI training doesn’t apply to Search AI. Despite 50% of content being excluded from Gemini training, Google still used that same data to train its search-based models—unless publishers blocked indexing entirely.
Google Doesn’t have to care
In freshly disclosed testimony during Google’s antitrust trial, a Google DeepMind exec confessed that Google continues training some of its…
Google’s Search AI Mode Launches to General Public
The great line from the Eagles Hotel California resonates today: “You can checkout in anytime you like, but you can…
I Went Six Months Without Google Search : A #Nofilter Analysis of Open AI’s SearchGPT for ChatGPT
When SearchGPT launched on ChatGPT, I dove into the deep end from the starting bell. It has been my default search for six months.
Mastering AI for SEO : From Keywords to Conversions: How AI is Reshaping SEO Strategy Part 3
In part one, we took a long look at using AI for content. Today, lets dig into AI and keyword…
Mastering AI for SEO: The Tools and Tactics That Work – Masters of Traffic Part 2
Captain Obvious says: AI is a major game-changer for SEO and marketing professionals who want to work smarter and not…
Google AI Search Finally Gets Memory
ChatGPT has been able to recall previous queries/prompts/chats for over a year now. So it was nice to see Google…
Google Begins the Force Feeding of AI – But Do Users Really Want It?
AI Mode is an tweak to Google Search that allows users to pose complex, multi-layered questions and easily continue their…
Google releases SpeciesNet, an Open Source AI model designed to identify wildlife critters
Google’s recent launch of SpeciesNet represents a major advancement in wildlife conservation technology. This open-source AI model is designed to…
Gemini Can Now Recall Past Conversations
Google has introduced a new memory feature for its Gemini AI chatbot, allowing it to reference past conversations for more…
Google Testing Pure Chat Mode for Search
This is the stuff of SEO nightmares. 9to5Google is reporting that Google is in internal testing of a full-out Chat…
Google Introduces Gemini 2 With Massive Context Window
Google has expanded the general availability of its Gemini 2 Flash model that was launched in December. The model was…
Google Testing Complete Serp Takeover With New Ai Layout
According to several, reports, Google is testing replacing the traditional Serp with a 100% AI take over. While the Verge…
Gemini Gets a Memory
Gemini plus subscribers can tell Gemini to remember this and it will. This should help with having to copy prompts…
Google Gemini Freaks Out and Goes Full On Sky Net – Telling User to Die Human!
CBS news is reporting that a 29 year old received threatening messages from Google Gemini. “This is for you, human.…
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…