Google Search Advocate John Mueller recently responded to a post on Reddit from a website owner experiencing a significant increase in indexed foreign language pages. The website owner reported that over 20,000 pages in Japanese and Chinese suddenly appeared on their site, which they didn’t create or intend to host. They asked the Reddit community … Read more
Welcome to Breaking the Blueprint — a blog series that dives into the unique business challenges and opportunities of underrepresented business owners and entrepreneurs. Learn how they’ve grown or scaled their businesses, explored entrepreneurial ventures within their companies, or created side hustles, and how their stories can inspire and inform your own success. A single … Read more
If your target audience speaks different languages, offering your website content in multiple languages would make sense to provide a better user experience. But does offering different languages on your website affect organic search rankings? Can the way you organize your localized pages affect organic search rankings? The Claim: Language As A Ranking Factor Your … Read more
Natural language processing (NLP) is an artificial intelligence (AI) technique that helps a computer understand and interpret naturally evolved languages (no, Klingon doesn’t count) as opposed to artificial computer languages like Java or Python. Its ability to understand the intricacies of human language, including context and cultural nuances, makes it an integral part of AI … Read more
Google’s John Mueller participated in an interesting conversation on Mastodon about linking between sites that are different languages and whether or not that may impact rankings. The person asking the question was afraid that receiving links from a non-English language site to their English language site might negatively affect that sites ability to rank. There … Read more
Databricks announced the release of the first open source instruction-tuned language model, called Dolly 2.0. It was trained using similar methodology as InstructGPT but with a claimed higher quality dataset that is 100% open source. This model is free to use, including for commercial purposes, because every part of the model is 100% open source. … Read more
Google announced a breakthrough in the effort to create an AI architecture that can handle millions of different tasks, including complex learning and reasoning. The new system is called the Pathways Language Model, referred to as PaLM. PaLM is able to outperform the current state of the current AI state of the art as well … Read more
Google creating a language model isn’t something new; in fact, Google LaMDA joins the likes of BERT and MUM as a way for machines to better understand user intent. Google has researched language-based models for several years with the hope of training a model that could essentially hold an insightful and logical conversation on any … Read more
