Google: Helpful Content Signal May Get Stronger With Next Core Update via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google will soon begin testing new AR prototypes in public settings worn or used by Googlers and trusted testers starting next month, the company announced. The applications for use include navigation, translation, transcription, and visual search. AR prototypes. Google explained that these AR prototypes will “include in-lens displays, microphones, and cameras.” Google said there will be “strict limitations on what they can do.” The AR prototypes do not support photography and videography, Google added but did say they do have image data that will be “used […]

Google seems to have launched or is testing a feature to have Google Search read details about a local business listing. This might be in only some regions, as I cannot replicate this in New York but I received a few reports from India about this feature.

Google has begun opening up Google Bard, its answer to ChatGPT and other AI chat solutions, to the public. There is now a way to sign up for a waitlist at bard.google.com if you are based in the US or UK. I signed up, but note, that you cannot use your Google Workspace account to sign up; you need to use a personal Google account to sign up. Bard not Search. As a reminder, Google Bard is not a replacement for Search. “Bard is separate from Search, […]