Google announced the rollout of the December 2024 spam update. The update, expected to be completed within a week, arrives amid ongoing industry discussions about the effectiveness of Google’s spam-fighting measures. This December update caps off a year of spam-fighting measures, including the June Spam Update and the March Core Update, which targeted policy-violating websites … Read more
Google launches 24-hour data view in Search Console, offering near real-time insights for website performance monitoring. Google Search Console now shows performance data from the last 24 hours with minimal delay. The new feature includes hourly data breakdowns and works across Search, Discover, and News reports. Google has cut data delay times by nearly half, … Read more
Google has updated Maps to include product-specific search capabilities, just in time for the holiday shopping season. This feature allows consumers to search for specific items and find nearby stores with available inventory. Key Features The update lets you search for products directly within Google Maps and find real-time inventory availability at nearby stores. Shoppers … Read more
YouTube’s latest update introduces experimental features to enhance creator analytics and community engagement, Additionally, YouTube is rolling out improvements to brand collaboration. Key Updates Data Stories YouTube is testing a “data story” feature in its Studio mobile app that helps creators understand their video performance. This tool provides a visual breakdown of the first 24 … Read more
OpenAI is bringing real-time web search capabilities to ChatGPT, enhancing the functionality of the AI chatbot. This new feature, announced today, allows ChatGPT to provide up-to-date information with proper source attribution while keeping its conversational interface. Key Updates ChatGPT can now deliver real-time data, including news, sports scores, stock prices, and weather updates. Search results … Read more
LinkedIn offers free AI certification courses through December, helping professionals adapt to workplace automation with expert-led training programs. LinkedIn launched three free AI certification courses The courses focus on recruiting, HR, and learning development. LinkedIn claims companies must invest in AI skills or risk falling behind. Source link
Google quietly added a new bot to their crawler documentation that crawls on behalf of commercial clients of their Vertex AI product. It appears that the new crawler may only crawl sites controlled by the site owners, but the documentation isn’t entirely clear on that point. Vertex AI Agents Google-CloudVertexBot, the new crawler, ingests website … Read more
OpenAI has announced the launch of SearchGPT, a prototype AI-powered search engine. This move marks the company’s entry into the competitive search market, potentially challenging established players. Key Features & Functionality SearchGPT aims to directly answer user queries by combining AI language models with real-time web information. Rather than offering a list of links, SearchGPT … Read more
Google has announced the rollout of the June 2024 spam update, which aims to further improve search results by targeting websites that violate Google’s spam policies. According to a statement, the update, which began on June 20, is expected to take up to one week to roll out fully. Today we released the June 2024 … Read more
Google announced a new feature for Google Analytics 4 (GA4), rolling out support for custom event data import. This allows you to combine external data sources with existing GA4 data for more comprehensive reporting and analysis. Google’s announcement reads: “With this feature, you can use a combination of standard fields and event-scoped custom dimensions to … Read more
Google announced a new tool for Analytics to streamline data comparisons. The ‘saved comparisons’ feature allows you to save filtered user data segments for rapid side-by-side analysis. Google states in an announcement: “We’re launching saved comparisons to help you save time when comparing the user bases you care about. Learn how you can do that … Read more
Google launches AI assistant Gemini for Workspace, available in 2 pricing tiers for business and enterprise. Google rebranded its AI assistant Duet as Gemini and made it more widely available. Gemini allows natural conversations to generate ideas, summaries, and more for Workspace users. Google launched Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise pricing plans for small teams … Read more
Google is releasing a new educational video series on its Search Central YouTube channel. The videos feature Google engineer Gary Illyes, who provides an inside look at how Google Search works. The goal of the series is to explain the complexities of the search engine in an understandable way. The first episode serves as an … Read more
YouTube has introduced a new feature that allows podcast creators to upload their podcast RSS feeds directly to YouTube Studio. The direct RSS feed integration enables audio-focused podcasters to share their content on YouTube more easily without manually uploading individual episodes. Simplifying Podcast Distribution RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication, is a technology commonly … Read more
Google is introducing an experimental feature in Google Maps that uses AI to help users discover local businesses that meet specific needs. AI-Powered Discovery The new feature utilizes large language models to analyze Google Maps’ database of over 250 million places, photos, ratings, reviews, and more. After entering a conversational search query, Google Maps will … Read more
Google has rolled out a new update for its Chrome browser that brings in sophisticated AI and machine learning to make browsing smoother and safer. Personalized Browsing With Chrome M121 Google Chrome’s latest update, version M121, includes new experimental AI features to customize and streamline web browsing. These new features, rolling out to Chrome on … Read more
Brave Search has announced the integration of a new feature, CodeLLM, enhancing search results for programming-related queries. CodeLLM combines Brave’s search capabilities with the power of large language models (LLMs) to provide relevant code snippets, detailed explanations, and citations for programmers’ search queries. A New Resource For Coding Assistance CodeLLM is designed to assist programmers … Read more
This holiday season, Meta comes up with a lot of new generative AI elements. These features include exciting changes like post prompts and image creation in-stream. There also has been an expansion in the availability of virtual characters. So, you can now use the text-to-image tool of Meta, “reimagine.” The evolving features of the platform … Read more
