Google may have hired someone to do Japanese calligraphy lessons at the Google office in Tokyo, Japan. I am not 100% sure, but the photo from Instagram says, “Japanese lesson at the Google office,” and she is holding those calligraphy pens/sticks – whatever they are called. You can see the full message in Japanese on

Since there have been webpages on the internet, scrapers have been out there scraping content off those sites for one reason or another. Well, even Microsoft’s Bing Chat has to deal with scrapers and yes, those scrapers can even cause sites hosted by Microsoft to slow down. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing at Microsoft,

Google released spam and fraud prevention stats for Google Maps and local search. In short, Google blocked 21% more reviews, 5% more photos, 40% more videos, and 5% more fake business profiles in 2022 than they did in 2021. Google removed or blocked 115 million reviews, 200 million user-contributed photos, 7 million user-contributed videos and

The other day I reported on how some are upset that Bing Chat is surfacing content that is behind paywalls, raising suspicions that Bing Chat is not respecting the robots.txt directives. While that is probably not true, as I reported earlier, Fabrice Canel from Bing did hint that Bing will be adding more controls around

Microsoft has been busy making improvements to Bing Chat. It not only ad revenue sharing, and nicer math formats, but also added image and video responses, improved the local results, and more. Here is what is new: (1) Microsoft now can show image and video search directly in Bing Chat, here is how that works

Jack Krawczyk from Google, who is the lead on Bard, said on Friday that Bard just rolled out improvements around math and logic. It incorporated PaLM, Google’s language model, into Bard, which helped it achieve these upgrades. “Now Bard will better understand and respond to your prompts for multi-step word and math problems, with coding

In part one, we spoke about who Sam Michelson is and his business development techniques. In part two, we dove into CRM software and how they use it, including looking at a new piece of software for partner management. Then in part three, we go into pricing your services, and in part four, we talk

I am starting to see early signs of a possible Google search ranking algorithm update touching down this morning, April 3rd. The automated tracking tools are not picking it up yet, but I am seeing some chatter from SEOs who are up already checking their traffic. The first place I spotted this chatter was in