In a new wave of updates aimed at revolutionizing its search engine, Google has integrated advanced artificial intelligence (AI) features that allow users to interact with visual content using voice commands. Announced in early October 2024, the latest AI injection enables users to ask questions about images or videos they encounter, with responses generated through
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Google Launches Ads For AI Overview Results
Google has launched its AI Overview ads for mobile users in the U.S. These ads will appear within AI-generated answers in search results, triggered when queries have commercial intent, such as product-related searches. The ads are integrated with existing campaigns, and advertisers don’t need to take extra steps to participate. However, Google will not provide
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Cloudflare to Launch Marketplace Allowing Websites to Charge AI Bots (and maybe search engines) for Scraping Content
Cloudflare announced a new initiative aimed at giving website owners more control over how their content is used by AI models. The company plans to launch a marketplace in 2024 where publishers can charge AI developers for accessing and scraping their content for training large language models (LLMs). This move is designed to help smaller
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Democratic Senators Urge US DOJ To Investigate Google’s AI Overviews
On September 10, 2024, Senator Amy Klobuchar, alongside several colleagues, urged the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate generative AI products for potential antitrust violations. Their concern centers on how dominant online platforms use AI to summarize or repurpose original content, harming journalists and other digital publishers by keeping users on
6 Things You NEED To Do After Installing Google Analytics 4 (GA4)
Google’s Universal Analytics is now gone. Which means Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is the only option we have for website tracking from Google. Therefore by now everyone should have GA4 installed and working correctly if they want to continue to track their website visitors. However, merely installing GA4 does not guarantee that you will be