By Christopher Zara January 12, 2024 Companies call them prompts. Techies call them nags. Around the internet, the rest of us just call them pop-ups—and we hate them. Nevertheless, pop-up windows are an endless bane of online life, despite whatever game of whack-a-mole we might try to play with ad blockers, browser plug-ins, or … Continue reading Google search users are getting annoyed by a pop-up window that asks: See results closer to you?
Google Search: A Gross Margin Framework For Generative AI Modeling by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, October 12, 2023 Google, Microsoft and others focused on search are preparing the ad industry to make one of the biggest transitions with the introduction of generative artificial intelligence (GAI). On Thursday, Google announced the ability to create images with … Continue reading Google Search: A Gross Margin Framework For Generative AI Modeling
UBS Analysts Estimate Costs Of Google Bard On Search Queries by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, March 17, 2023 There has been little written about the cost of a search on the environment — and even less about the cost of a search query through AI-powered chatbots. Initial fears of high costs were sparked when Alphabet Chairman … Continue reading UBS Analysts Estimate Costs Of Google Bard Search Query
Google Search ‘Cars For Sale’ Widget Available In U.S. by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, January 26, 2023 Google Search will enable car dealerships to serve up lot inventory directly in search listings through a feature called Cars for Sale. The utility, only available in the United States, allows dealerships to add the inventory directly to search … Continue reading Google Search ‘Cars For Sale’ Widget Available In U.S.
By Clint Rainey November 02, 2022 Back to the office, you say? Workers may say, not so fast. With return-to-office mandates looming or already in effect, a new report shows that employees have been increasingly turning to Google for plausible excuses to stay home, or even skip the workday entirely. The new study, released Tuesday … Continue reading ‘Best excuses for missing work’: the Google search taking the world by storm in the RTO era
Google Focuses On Making Search More Visual For The TikTok Era by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, September 28, 2022 Google will change the traditional search experience, allowing users to more naturally explore information. The company on Wednesday, at its Search On event, showed how advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) enable its developers to transform its products, … Continue reading Google Focuses On Making Search More Visual For The TikTok Era
Google Exclusivity And DOJ’s Battle Over Search by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, September 9, 2022 Google pays billions of dollars to other companies — Apple, Samsung Electronics, etc. — to keep its search as the default option on phones and in browsers, something the Department of Justice (DOJ) believes creates an illegal dominance over the search … Continue reading Google Exclusivity And DOJ’s Battle Over Search
By Jessica Bursztynsky August 18, 2022 Google announced Thursday a series of updates meant to better prioritize quality websites in search results, helping users find more reliable sources. The tweaks are part of the company’s long-term work in promoting quality content on Search, as some users complain that their results have become too … Continue reading Google’s search tweaks will help prioritize quality websites in results
Google Search Outage Causes Issues With Quality And Indexing by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, August 9, 2022 Google Search briefly experienced complications from a nearby electrical fire that lead to longer page-load times, errors, and empty search results. An electrical fire at a Google data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, injuring three electricians working on a substation … Continue reading Google Search Outage Causes Issues With Quality And Indexing
Google Confirms Content Indexing Issues In Search by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, July 15, 2022 Google has confirmed issues with indexing new content and displaying that content in Google Search. Users need only do a search on the keyword “Google” — setting the tools criteria to the past hour — to identify the issue, which started … Continue reading Google Confirms Content Indexing Issues In Search
