Today, like previous years, Google has posted a grayed-out logo and a small US flag, to commemorate Memorial Day in the US. I will not be posting stories today, to respect the holiday. Here is what it looks like: Google also has a grayed-put logo at the top left of its search results page. Google …
Google alternatives are everywhere, but are they any good? To answer this question, we researched a few popular alternative search engines. Our main judging criterion is how each search engine fared in its commitment to protecting user data and privacy. Here are the ones that got our approval: Startpage is effectively Google without the tracking. According …
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Here is a photo from the Google NYC office from a week or so ago where you have Dr. Michio Kaku giving Google Talk at the office there. Dr. Michio is an American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science. He is a professor of theoretical physics in the City College of New York and …
Google is testing adding an image carousel directly in the business profile panel. So at the top of a business profile listing you see these business images. In this test, you can swipe the images to see more. This was spotted by Mike who posted a few photos of it in the Local Search Forum. …
This has been an exciting week! At Build 2023, we announced we’re bringing Bing to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, giving it a world-class search engine to provide timelier and more up-to-date answers with access from the web. That new experience is currently rolling out to ChatGPT Plus subscribers and will be available to free users soon by enabling …
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The other day, I reported that Google was testing replacing the 3D label with a 360 label. Well, I may have been wrong because 360 and 3D may be different and not the same. We are now seeing Google show both 3D and 3560 labels on product listings in the same product grid, which means …
Google Product Listings 3D & 360 Imagery Are Different Read More »
The other day, I reported that Microsoft was sending invites to relaunch and expand Microsoft pubCenter, Microsoft’s AdSense alternative. So I signed up and was given access the other day and I wanted to share some screenshots of the screens. The first thing you get is an email saying “You’ve been selected from the waitlist.” …
The all-new and exciting Google Search Generative Experience is now rolling out as a labs experiment to some early waitlisted users. I should have access by now, but I am offline, I wrote this yesterday before I was able to play with it (which is why this news is not in my video, which I …
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