...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.
Search Engine World
Views: 4820 years ago pioneering SEOs like Rand Fishkin, Brett Tabke, Bruce Clay, Jill Whalen, and Matt Cutts wrote some of the first SEO best practice checklists. Google wasn’t even a company yet and SEOs were debating the difference between subdomains and folders for ranking purposes. Its been over 20 years since those days. Rand, and Jill don’t do SEO…
Views: 0Disgruntled foodies were ticked off that their favorite restaurants were over run with tourists. So they turned to social media and banded together in forum posts to give rosey reviews to nearby restaurants. Mediocre restaurants nearby their favorite ones, were over run with glowing 5 star reviews. Google’s advertising bloats SERP’s, have caused users to ramp up their complaints…
Views: 0(update 10/31/24: yes – we called it. SearchGPT was just bolted onto chatGPT bolted onto ChatGPT) Since its launch, SearchGPT by OpenAI has been invite only and reportedly open to only the first 10,000 users. SEO’s have been pining months for SearchGPT to make its long awaited appearance in front of the massive ChatGPT audience. A few people on…
Views: 1While users in the US have been baking in AI for some time now, much of the rest of the world got hit with it today. Starting this week, AI Overviews will begin rolling out in more than 100 countries and territories around the world. With this latest expansion, AI Overviews will have more than 1 billion global users…
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.
Views: 0We continue to read reporting claiming that the Justice Department will block Google’s deal with Apple to be the default search engine on iPhones. As someone who has worked in Tech for 42 years and specialized in search engines for 27 years, I think this is misguided – here is why: #1 What does it mean to be “the…
Views: 0Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said Friday (Oct. 25) that the artificial intelligence (AI) search company is serving over 100 million queries per week. “Perplexity now serves over 100M queries every week,” Srinivas wrote in a post on X. “Next stop: 100M+ queries every day.” Earlier in the week Perplexity was looking to raise a new round of funding at at staggering $8 billion…
Views: 1Bing Webmaster Tools has extended its Search Performance data view from 6 to 16 months, enabling deeper insights for site owners, webmasters and marketers. This update supports long-term trend analysis, seasonal pattern recognition, and detailed campaign assessments. Users can better allocate resources, refine strategies, and report SEO impacts with this expanded data. Learn more about this change and its…
Views: 0Google is releasing its SynthID AI text and water marking tool. They say that the watermarks in generated text are imperceptible to humans. SynthID is a technology from Google DeepMind that watermarks and identifies AI-generated content by embedding digital watermarks directly into AI-generated images, audio, text or video. SynthID Text has been open sourced to make watermarking for text…
Views: 0 Reuters is reporting that “Dow Jones, New York Post sue Perplexity AI for ‘illegal’ copying of content” News Corp, owner of The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, has filed a lawsuit against AI search engine Perplexity for extensive copyright infringement. The suit alleges that Perplexity copies articles, analyses, and opinions on a massive scale…
Views: 0In a significant shift, Google has announced that it will be removing the “sitelinks” searchbox feature from its search engine results pages (SERPs). This decision, which comes after more than a decade of featuring sitelinks, aims to simplify the search experience. “Its been over ten years since we initially announced the sitelinks search box in Google Search, and over…
Views: 0About that SemRush Buying 3rd Door Media. It happened while a conference was going on – and that may have contributed – to so many questions put to me about the Third Door Media sale to SemRush. I was taken a bit aback by so many people asking about it, that I was taking a “wait and see” approach.…
Views: 2Microsoft has introduced Copilot to Bing Webmaster Tools, currently available in limited preview to select users. This AI-powered feature aims to enhance productivity and provide valuable insights by streamlining workflows and automating repetitive tasks. Key features include: Real-Time Question/Answer Chat: Offers immediate, accurate, and contextually relevant responses to user queries. Deep Data Insights: Provides comprehensive analysis to inform and…
Views: 0 Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, announced a leadership shift: Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Google’s search and ads, will step down and become Google’s Chief Technologist. In his new role, Raghavan will focus on providing technical leadership and strengthening the company’s tech culture. Nick Fox, a long-time Google executive, will succeed him, having played a key role in shaping Google’s…
Views: 0When contemplating where OpenAI is heading in the next five years, Sam Altman’s history and demeanor are telling indicators. As a prominent figure from Y Combinator, few CEOs have had the depth of exposure to startups and businesses that he had during his tenure there. Listening to most public interviews with Altman from Lex Friedman to Oprah, suggests that…
Views: 1Cindy Krum discusses Google’s manipulation of search and data collection through Chrome, revealing how this affects SEO and user privacy. Highlights 📈 Google uses Chrome data for search ranking algorithms. 🔎 Evidence shows Google misled about mobile-first indexing. 💻 Chrome’s local processing aids Google in data collection. 🕵️♀️ Users unknowingly contribute to Google’s AI training. 🚫 Google bypasses privacy…
Views: 46Source: OpenAI Overview of OpenAI Crawlers OpenAI uses web crawlers (“robots”) and user agents to perform actions for its products, either automatically or triggered by user request. OpenAI uses the following robots.txt tags to enable webmasters to manage how their sites and content work with AI. Each setting is independent of the others – for example, a webmaster can…
Views: 7SearchGPT Advanced Search Operators Boolean Operators AND: Finds documents containing all the specified terms. OR: Finds documents containing any of the specified terms. NOT: Excludes documents containing the specified term. Proximity Search NEAR: Finds documents where two terms are within a specified distance of each other. Wildcard Search *: Matches any number of characters. For example, "apple*" will match…
Views: 2I completed my first week using SearchGPT exclusively as the only search engine I used. I did do a few comparisons with G and Bing, but I always took the SearchGPT Serp first. Thoughts: Pro: It is such a breath of fresh air not to have all the visual Serp Noise of Google and Bing. Zero time was spent…