Check out the highlights from Google’s latest Search Off The Record podcast discussing website launches, preventing staging site indexing, and domain name choices.

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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today……

Google has prioritized rating chatbot prompt responses above rating the quality of search results, at least for some of its contract workers, since January, Insider reports.

Why we care. Google is clearly committing a lot of resources to Bard and …

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today……

Seven open source GPT models challenge the closed-source models by OpenAI, Deepmind and Meta

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Google plans to integrate conversational AI in search amid rising competition, CEO Sundar Pichai reveals in an interview.

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Members of Congress aim for big tech companies like Google and Facebook to divest portions of their advertising businesses to protect competition.

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Lost in the non-story about Bing adding ads to Chat (ads were already there) was a blog post by Microsoft attempting to assure content creators that the goal of new Bing is to “drive more traffic and revenue …

Google will soon retire four rules-based attribution models in Google Ads and Google Analytics:

First-click.

Linear.

Time decay.

Position-based.

Why we care. This will impact anyone who still uses these models in Google Ads. Anything that isn’t last-click will be …

Large language models (LLMs) will eventually be part of the Google search experience. We still don’t know when conversational AI will appear in Search, but Google CEO Sundar Pichai promises it’s coming.

Why we care. The new BingGPT search with …

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Things, not strings. If you haven’t heard this before, it comes from a famous Google blog post that announced the Knowledge Graph. 

The announcement’s 11th anniversary is only a month away, yet …

OpenAI pledges to prioritize safety, accuracy, and privacy in AI systems. Learn about their approach and ongoing work.

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Google first turned to artificial intelligence and machine learning to power its search engine algorithm back in 2016.

With ChatGPT‘s launch in late 2022, however, artificial intelligence truly became mainstream and significantly impacted the SEO industry.

While some …

Google Search is testing a new section for “cheaper options” in the product detail overlay window. So instead of just showing related products and product specs and buying options, Google is now testing “cheaper options” for higher priced products.…

Google’s Gary Illyes confirmed that Google does look at domain name records for discovery of new domains to include in the Google Search Index.…

Google Ads is running a small test to help you create ads using AI. Google Bard does not power this, but it is a form of artificial intelligence designed to give you suggested ad headlines and descriptions.…

Stop reading. Now.

Go open Google Analytics. Click on Behavior, then sort by Top Content, and add a Secondary dimension for google / organic.

Now, what do you see?

If you’re like most websites, the top trafficked …