The U.S. Justice Department and eight states wrapped up closing arguments on Monday in a landmark antitrust case accusing Google of monopolizing the ad technology market. The outcome could reshape the tech giant’s business model and set a precedent for regulating Big Tech. Driving the news....
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Google’s site reputation abuse policy is a band-aid for a bullet wound
Google’s updated site reputation abuse policy attempts to tackle a growing issue in search: large, authoritative sites exploiting their domain strength to rank for content they don’t own or create. While the policy is a step in the right direction, it doesn’t address the underlying...
Exploring URL Volatility in Google‘s AI Overviews
Google’s AI Overviews (AIOs) are clearly here and are clearly here to stay. While what they eventually become and how they evolve are still unknown we can identify how often the AIOs appear, for what keywords, etc.Still, even with this data, there was something still nagging me about them...
Get Help From Google’s Sales Assistant
Google seems to be testing a new AI chat feature for e-commerce searches and retailers that is titled "Get help from Google's sales assistant." This will launch an AI chat feature that gives you AI-based product results based on your chat session.This was first spotted by Brodie Clark who...
Google’s AI Search Experiment: “Learn About”
Google has quietly introduced a new AI Search experiment called Learn About, which summarizes content and offers navigational menus to explore related subtopics. This new way of exploring content uses drill-down navigational menus called Interactive Lists and if the user scrolls down far...