Google Rolls Out AI-Powered Travel Updates For Search & Maps via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google has released its annual summer travel trends report alongside several AI-powered updates to its travel planning tools. The announcement reveals shifting travel preferences while introducing enhancements to Search, Maps, Lens, and Gemini functionality. New AI Search and Planning Features Google announced five major updates to its travel planning ecosystem. Expanded AI Overviews Google has…

YouTube is changing what a view means for YouTube Shorts

How many views are your YouTube videos receiving? In order to truly know this, you have to understand how a view is counted on YouTube in the first place. On a traditional YouTube video, YouTube adds a view to your video’s view count if a viewer watches 30 seconds or more of your upload.  However,…

OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-4o Image Creation To Everyone via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

OpenAI has rolled out a new image generation system directly integrated with GPT-4o. This system allows the AI to access its knowledge base and conversation context when creating images. This integration is said to enable more contextually relevant and accurate visual outputs. OpenAI’s announcement reads: “GPT‑4o image generation excels at accurately rendering text, precisely following…

How influencers and politicians built an unregulated supplement empire

If you search social media for workout tips or healthy meal ideas, you’ll likely be bombarded with ads for supplements. “Bloom will boost your energy and make your skin glow,” “AG1 Athletic Greens will fill any gaps in your diet,” “Magnesium will improve your mood and your sleep,” “Lion’s mane will enhance your memory,” and…

Google Business Profile Suspensions Rise, But Appeals Are Delayed

Google Business Profile (GBP) suspensions have steadily risen since January, and as they increase, appeal resolution times have grown significantly – from about five days to nearly five weeks. As a Platinum Product Expert in the Google Business Profile Support Forums, I help small businesses navigate Google’s GBP platform. For many of these SMBs, Google…

The age of being very online is over. Heres why.

There was once a time when memes and internet-born jokes were a novelty enjoyed by relatively few people – the kind who would describe themselves as Extremely Online. Maybe you’d take pride in quoting a niche Vine that only a few select IRL friends will have seen and spent your evenings connecting with mutuals on…