Mastodon shows declined growth, despite concerns with Twitter
Mastodon was all the craze when Elon Musk took over Twitter, but its growth has not just slowed in the past several weeks but has […]
Articles by Barry Schwartz
Google Search podcast carousel going away on February 13
Google will be removing the podcast carousel fully from Google Search on February 13, 2023. There is a notice in the Google Podcast Manager about […]
Google launches Bard, its answer to ChatGPT – here’s what it looks like
Google is now testing Bard, its answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Google CEO Sundar Pichai today announced the soft launch of Bard to a set “trusted […]
New Bingbot user-agent now fully live
Microsoft’s Fabrice Canel confirmed this morning that the new Bingbot user-agent is now 100% live today. The new Bingbot will generally be used for crawling […]
Microsoft Bing’s ChatGPT interface spotted in the wild
Microsoft Bing is working towards integrating ChatGPT with GPT 4.0 into its search interface in the coming weeks and now we may have spotted some […]
Sundar Pichai confirms Google is working on AI search feature users can “engage directly with”
Google announced its Q4 earnings just hours ago, more on those numbers later, but Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, confirmed in the earnings call […]
Report: Microsoft Bing’s ChatGPT feature to be faster and richer with GPT-4
As reported earlier, we are now learning more about Microsoft’s plans to incorporate ChatGPT into Bing Search. Reed Albergotti said that it is not just […]
Google Maps removed policy-abiding reviews from Local Guides
Google has accidentally removed legit, policy-abiding reviews submitted by Local Guides from Google Maps. Google acknowledged the issue and said it is working on reinstating […]
Microsoft Bing to rely more on lastmod date in XML sitemap files for crawling
Microsoft Bing will soon rely a lot more on the date you specify in the lastmod field within your XML sitemap for crawling. Fabrice Canel, […]
Google Search Console Video indexing report gains video impressions overlay and sitemap filter
Google’s video indexing report within Google Search Console added some new improvements, including video impressions overlay and sitemap filter. Google announced this was done to […]
