Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Artificial intelligence has been a scorching hot topic lately, especially since the launch of ChatGPT Nov. 30. Microsoft Bing has plans to add ChatGPT to search. Some have questioned whether it’s a Google killer. Now we’re seeing more examples of brands using AI-generated content. Bankrate is the latest example. It is having some of its content written by machines but reviewed by human editors. It’s a bold strategy. And the SEO community wanted to know Google’s policies around these efforts. Bankrate example. The example was highlighted […]
This day in search marketing history: January 7
The Spam Clock in 2011, startup search engine Blekko launched a spam clock that estimated 155 million spam pages had been created since Jan. 1 of that year. Blekko said 1 million spam pages were being created every hour. How bad was Google’s spam problem then? Big. But as Danny Sullivan pointed out at the time, it was hard to judge whether Google’s relevancy had actually decreased, because: We expect more from Google than we do in the past, searching for things we might not have […]
