In an otherwise slow Search Engine News week (from Chaz Hutton) h/t Tracy Ingram
Bluesky Social Network Skyrockets to 15m In Users – Umm Bye-Bye Twitter X
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.
SearchGPT or ChatGPT Search is Not Necc a Direct Competitor to Google
I have been gnashing my teeth at the main stream tech press since SearchGPT was bolted on to ChatGPT. The main…
Ecosia and Qwant Partner on new Euro Search Engine
Remember Ecosia? Umm barely? We’ve not heard that name much stateside in over a decade. If it weren’t for Fabrice…
What People are saying about SearchGPT From OpenAi
Watching OpenAI launch SearchGPT into ChatGPT was fraught with potential issues. I read most all of the main stream tech…
Google Pushes out Algo Rankings Update
Google has had a long history of messing around with the status quo near the Christmas shopping season. This year…
Google’s testing a real time update for SERPs in conversational search
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.
12 Essential Files SEOs Should Run Through ChatGPT for an SEO Tune-Up
LLM’s like Claude and ChatGPT are very good at SEO related information – it is like the new SEO super…
SEO Legends : “RepoMonkey Bait & Tackle/v1.01”
This is the place to dust off some of the “back-n-the-day” stories that are often told around the fireplace at…
Top AI Video Generators – Rich Media SEO Content Revolution Continues
SEO’s are always looking for fresh content sources to flush out offerings. Video has been easy but time consuming. Afterall,…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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.”
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…