Google paid $26 billion in 2021 for default search engine status A company executive revealed the figures in the DOJ’s antitrust trial against the search giant. Will Shanklin Updated Fri, Oct 27, 2023 NurPhoto via Getty Images Vice president Prabhakar Raghavan testified Friday that Google paid $26.3 billion in 2021 for the purpose of … Continue reading Google paid $26 billion in 2021 for default search engine status
Search Agencies Are Building Their Own Empire by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, October 20, 2023 Google AdSense on Thursday rolled out related search advertisements for the automotive industry that shows content-related search terms on pages users view. The feature helps to improve an advertiser’s targeting by ensuring only contextually relevant ads are served to users. The … Continue reading Search Agencies Are Building Their Own Empire
Google Ranking And Indexing Become Focus Of Search Trial by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, October 19, 2023 Pandu Nayak, a vice president for search at Google, testified Wednesday about Google’s efforts to index the web, eliminate irrelevant pages and rank websites in order to answer user queries from sources that are E-A-T — otherwise … Continue reading Google Ranking And Indexing Become Focus Of Search Trial
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
Amazon Reportedly Will Introduce A Search Concierge In January by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, October 3, 2023 Amazon is overhauling its search bar with generative artificial intelligence (GAI) features that will act as a concierge for customers, offering expert answers and product suggestions. Set to launch in January 2024, Amazon’s search concierge, known as Project … Continue reading Amazon Reportedly Will Introduce A Search Concierge In January
The case alleges Google used its 90% market share to illegally throttle competition in both search and search advertising. Constantine von Hoffman on September 11, 2023 The Justice Department’s antitrust case against Google and its search engine dominance is set to begin Tuesday. The case, U.S. et al v. Google, focuses on the company’s popular … Continue reading Antitrust trial over Google search set to open
Why Andi May Succeed In Search Automation Where Others Failed by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, September 7, 2023 What happens when someone gets fed up with ads and SEO spam in search? They start a search engine. At least Angela Hoover did. She founded San Francisco-based Andi Search in September 2021 after taking a … Continue reading Why Andi May Succeed In Search Automation Where Others Failed
TikTok Search Ads Come With A Caveat by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, August 23, 2023 Advertisers will soon have an option to place ads alongside organic content that appears when searching in the TikTok app, but there’s no guarantee that enabling the Search Ads Toggle will result in ads being served in the TikTok … Continue reading TikTok Search Ads Come With A Caveat
ChatGPT is suddenly everywhere. Are we ready? The disinformation crisis is about to get so, so much worse. Andrew Tarantola Senior Editor Updated Mon, Apr 3, 2023 Carol Yepes via Getty Images For a product that its own creators, in a marketing pique, once declared “too dangerous” to release to the general public, OpenAI’s ChatGPT … Continue reading Google is pushing its AI-powered search on India and Japan next
Meta Rolls Out Search Tool To Track Branded Content by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, August 25, 2023 Meta has launched a new search tool that tracks branded content campaigns. Advertisers can find the feature, Search Branded Content, in the Ads Library. The feature gives users the option to filter the database by platform, date range of seven … Continue reading Meta Rolls Out Search Tool To Track Branded Content
