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Google is getting even worse for independent sites: Air purifier reviews site HouseFresh wrote in February about how big media companies used product reviews as a cash cow on Google Search to the detriment of small sites. They say the problem has only gotten worse. 📉
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/2/24147152/google-search-seo-publishing-housefresh-product-reviews
A new report explores the economic impact of generative AI: Close to 80% of the jobs in the U.S. economy could see at least 10% of their tasks done twice as quickly via the use of generative AI. 📈
https://blog.google/technology/ai/a-new-report-explores-the-economic-impact-of-generative-ai/
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of Mastodon’s new U.S. non-profit 🆕
The Man Who Killed Google Search: In February 2019, Google's ads and finance teams called a "code yellow" on search, because revenue was slow and people were not asking Google enough questions. Ben Gomes, then head of search, refused to make Google Search worse for profit. This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it... 🤔
Google is officially a $2 trillion company: Alphabet’s market cap briefly hit $2T in 2021 — but now it’s comfortably passed the threshold for an entire day. 📈
https://www.theverge.com/24140489/google-alphabet-q1-2024-earnings-revenue
Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents: The Replacement of Organic Search with Advertising by Google and Amazon and What That Might Mean for the Future of AI. 💯
https://oreilly.com/radar/rising-tide-rents-and-robber-baron-rents/
Google search boss warns employees of ‘new operating reality,’ urges them to move faster: Prabhakar Raghavan told employees to prepare for a different market reality, because “things are not like they were 15-20 years ago.” 🤨
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/23/google-search-boss-raghavan-warns-employees-of-new-operating-reality.html/
@hegedusgergely Axios may not have taken this context into account when selecting the image. Or they want attention... 🤨
Google who? Gen Z is searching on TikTok, YouTube instead. 🔎
Gen Z is turning toward social media as a search engine, seeking quick, relatable answers amid dissatisfaction with Google's results. 👈
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/11/google-gen-z-search-engines-tiktok-youtube
#GenZ #GoogleSearch #TikTokSearch #SEO
Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down: The publisher-focused platform is going away after less than two years. 📉🤔
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24135011/twitter-alternative-post-news-shutdown
OpenAI Sees ‘Tremendous Growth’ in Corporate Version of ChatGPT: OpenAI’s Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap said there are now more than 600,000 people signed up to use ChatGPT Enterprise. 📈
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-sees-tremendous-growth-corporate-182314630.html
The Incognito Mode Myth Has Fully Unraveled: Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” collected from users of “Incognito mode,” illuminating the pitfalls of relying on Chrome to protect your privacy. 🔎
https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-incognito-mode-data-deletion-settlement
Google DeepMind co-founder joins Microsoft as CEO of its new AI division: Mustafa Suleyman will oversee Microsoft’s development of consumer AI products, including Copilot, Bing, and Edge. 🆕
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/19/24105900/google-deepmind-microsoft-mustafa-suleyman-ai-ceo
Google March 2024 AI Content Manual Action Update - List of Deindexed Sites: On March 5th Google announced a massive update would be occurring that would aim to reduce unhelpful content by 40%. 🆕
https://originality.ai/blog/google-march-2024-manual-action-ai-update-list
X Continues to Share Misleading Data Notes, As Third Party Reports Show Declines in Usage 😆
X Usage Dropped 30% In Last Year, Study Says :blobpopcorn:
Google takes aim at SEO-optimized junk pages and spam with new search update 🆕🤨
AI deepfakes are cheap, easy, and coming for the 2024 election: Generative AI makes fake audio, images, and video easier to create than ever before. Are policymakers and platforms ready?! 🤔
Amazon Just Got Banned From the EU Parliament: In an interview with WIRED, the politician behind the ban hits out at Amazon for being evasive about working conditions in its warehouses. :blobfacepalm: 🆕
Threads widens the gap with X, with triple the daily downloads on iOS: Although an app’s downloads aren’t an exact proxy for usage, they can hint at where the market is headed. And in the case of the alt-Twitter wars, the app winning the game right now is Instagram’s Threads... :blobthinkingcool: