Google’s Preferred Sources tool is meant to let fans of certain websites tell Google they want to see more of their favorite sites in the Top News feature. However, Google is surfacing copycat spam sites, random sites, and parked domains. Some of the sites appearing in the tool are so low quality that only their…
Google Finance is rolling out Deep Search capabilities, prediction markets data, and enhanced earnings tracking features across its AI-powered platform. The updates expand Google Finance beyond basic market data into multi-step research workflows and crowd-sourced probability forecasting. Google announced the changes today, with features rolling out over the coming weeks, starting with Labs users. Deep…
Search isn’t ending. It’s evolving. Across the industry, the systems powering discovery are diverging. Traditional search runs on algorithms designed to crawl, index, and rank the web. AI-driven systems like Perplexity, Gemini, and ChatGPT interpret it through models that retrieve, reason, and respond. That quiet shift (from ranking pages to reasoning with content) is what’s breaking the optimization stack…
This post was sponsored by Market Brew. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. If your AI-generated articles don’t rank but sound fine, you’re not alone. AI has made it effortless to produce content, but not to stand out in SERPs. Across nearly every industry, brands are using generative AI tools like…
There’s hardly ever such a thing as truly free money. We pay for everything, in some way: with labor, with time, with suffering. So getting a payment from a tech or social media settlement isn’t exactly free — it’s likely the company messed up in some way and it legitimately owes you that cash —…
Google is starting to roll out agentic capabilities in AI Mode as a Search Labs experiment. This update enables AI Mode to find and book restaurant reservations, event tickets, and wellness appointments across multiple websites. Availability is limited, and Google notes this experiment may not be available to everyone yet. Robby Stein, VP of Product…
Elon Musk may not be a New York City resident, but he has strong feelings about the city’s mayoral race, and he’s using his social media platform X to influence voters. Up to 2 million New York City residents are expected to vote in the mayoral election, which takes place on Tuesday, Nov. 4. The…
When it comes to thought leadership and great opportunities, professionals are missing out if they’re not on LinkedIn. It’s the world’s largest professional network with over 1.2 billion members in 200 countries and regions worldwide. LinkedIn’s popularity rose following a significant turn away from X (formerly Twitter), and users looked for continuation with their established…
The footprint of large language models keeps expanding. You see it in productivity suites, CRM, ERP, and now in the browser itself. When the browser thinks and acts, the surface you optimize for changes. That has consequences for how people find, decide, and buy. Microsoft shows how quickly this footprint can spread across daily work.…
Researchers from Anthropic investigated Claude 3.5 Haiku’s ability to decide when to break a line of text within a fixed width, a task that requires the model to track its position as it writes. The study yielded the surprising result that language models form internal patterns resembling the spatial awareness that humans use to track…