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Google rolls out new AI-organized search results, AI Overview links

Google’s organized search results will now let you see content and perspectives from all around the web, including articles, videos, forums and more. Barry Schwartz on October 7, 2024   Google is rolling out AI-organized search results, and the new links and citations format in the Google AI Overviews. AI-organized search results. The new AI-organized search … Continue reading Google rolls out new AI-organized search results, AI Overview links

Google Lags In Mobile AI, Captures Most Search Market Share

Google Lags In Mobile AI, Captures Most Search Market Share by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, October 2, 2024 Google, Meta, and Microsoft continue in their race to capture dedicated users for search and AI services and engines, competing with newcomers OpenAI, Perplexity, Anthropic, Mistral and many others for market share. New Street Research surveyed … Continue reading Google Lags In Mobile AI, Captures Most Search Market Share

Google: DOJ Missed The Forest Through The Trees

Google: DOJ Missed The Forest Through The Trees by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, September 30, 2024 Google owns the most powerful ad-serving business used by publishers to sell advertisements, the most powerful tool used by ­advertisers to buy them, and the largest exchange where the auctions are run. Lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice … Continue reading Google: DOJ Missed The Forest Through The Trees

Upsides To Google Labeling Positive Fake Reviews On Maps

Upsides To Google Labeling Positive Fake Reviews On Maps by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, September 27, 2024 Google Maps has released a set of rules that call out businesses for creating and posting positive false reviews of themselves or offering incentives to others to give the business rave reviews. Not only will the fake reviews … Continue reading Upsides To Google Labeling Positive Fake Reviews On Maps

Google AI Overviews Disrupts Ecommerce, Publisher Traffic

Google AI Overviews Disrupts Ecommerce, Publisher Traffic by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, September 20, 2024 Logging in to a company’s network creates sort of a walled garden, where the data remains within the perimeters, creating checks and balances of intent. Some may not consider Google a walled garden, but when logged in to its … Continue reading Google AI Overviews Disrupts Ecommerce, Publisher Traffic

Reddit Users Challenge Google, Sending Business Owners A Message

Reddit Users Challenge Google, Sending Business Owners A Message by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, September 18, 2024 One in four retail small business owners use Reddit as part of their marketing strategy, compared with 1 in 5 of those that own businesses in information and 30% of those operating in professional services. And one in 10 … Continue reading Reddit Users Challenge Google, Sending Business Owners A Message

Google adtech antitrust trial: Everything you need to know

The antitrust trial over allegedly monopolistic practices in the $200 billion digital advertising industry could lead to huge changes for the tech giant and digital marketing. Anu Adegbola on September 17, 2024   Google is on trial for allegedly abusing its dominance of the $ 200 billion digital advertising industry. The U.S. Department of Justice … Continue reading Google adtech antitrust trial: Everything you need to know

Google Backdoor Ad Practices Revealed By Those Who Lived It

Google Backdoor Ad Practices Revealed By Those Who Lived It by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, September 16, 2024 The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a door for advertisers, publishers and tech platforms’ executives to begin discussing Google’s hidden practices as the justice department continues to hear testimony during Alphabet’s latest antitrust trial in … Continue reading Google Backdoor Ad Practices Revealed By Those Who Lived It

Google Smothers AI Hallucinations With Real-World Data

Google Smothers AI Hallucinations With Real-World Data by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, September 13, 2024 Inaccurate online information produced by large language models (LLMs) powering today’s AI technology can trigger the most unusual responses, despite the ability to sift through vast amounts of data to complete a variety of tasks. Those tasks include everything … Continue reading Google Smothers AI Hallucinations With Real-World Data

Google vs. DOJ: Why Google’s ‘hundreds of competitors’ claim doesn’t add up

Company defends its ad tech dominance by pointing to market competition, low fees and benefits for businesses. Is it true? Anu Adegbola on September 10, 2024   With Google’s antitrust jury trial underway, Google claimed the U.S. Department of Justice has a “narrow view” of the ad tech market and that advertisers and publishers have many alternatives. … Continue reading Google vs. DOJ: Why Google’s ‘hundreds of competitors’ claim doesn’t add up