Catégorie : Social Media

WordPress announced that the real-time collaboration feature will not ship in the upcoming 7.0 release, citing that the current approach is not yet “robust enough” to be included. The response from the WordPress community was a collective sigh of relief. A post by Matt Mullenweg in the official WordPress Make Slack workspace explained the reasons […]

Keyword research has an expanded purpose in the world of local SEO. The keyword intent you’re already building for clients can now feed the trust signal layer that drives local AI recommendations, but only if it’s deployed in the right places. When AI tools recommend a local business, they’re not just reading the website. They’re […]

Search engines were designed to do several things at once: Rank a field of options, route the user to one of them, and keep the human inside the decision so the engine never owned the choice. That last part was not an accident. It was the liability architecture. Large language models were built without any […]

One of the more interesting moments in Google’s latest Ads Decoded podcast centered around a growing advertiser concern about AI-generated creative. As more brands gain access to the same AI tools, will advertising eventually start feeling repetitive? Ginny Marvin, Ads Liaison at Google, raised that question directly during the discussion, asking whether the industry was […]

Google is rolling out five updates to how links appear in its generative AI Search experiences, including AI Mode and AI Overviews. The changes add subscription labels and inline links within responses, among other features. Here’s an example of how the changes will appear: Image Credit: Google Hema Budaraju, VP of Product Management, wrote about […]

For years, URL structure was a technical SEO checkbox. Keep it short, use hyphens, include the keyword, done. While that playbook still works, it’s increasingly incomplete. A growing share of the target audience now discovers content through AI assistants and large language models like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google’s AI Overviews, and more. These systems retrieve […]

Google is testing Web Bot Auth, an experimental protocol designed to help websites verify that automated traffic is really coming from the bot or service it claims to represent. The new protocol could give site owners a dependable way to separate legitimate automated traffic from bots that hide or misrepresent who they are. A new […]

Google published documentation explaining its testing of Web Bot Auth, an experimental IETF protocol that can help websites cryptographically verify some automated requests from bots and AI agents. The protocol adds another verification layer by letting agents sign HTTP requests with cryptographic keys. Websites can then verify those signatures against published public keys to confirm […]

Canadian fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has filed a civil lawsuit against Google, alleging an AI Overview falsely identified him as a convicted sex offender. The lawsuit could test how courts treat liability for false AI-generated search summaries. The statement of claim, filed in February with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, seeks at least $1.5 million […]

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