Dear Readers, SEO Pros, and Digital Marketers, Hello, I’m Jenise. I’ve been at the SEJ helm for 15 years, with Loren Baker and Brent Csutoras at my side as majority owners and operating partners. Yesterday, I woke up to a monumental piece of news: SEO news publisher Search Engine Land was purchased by marketing tool … Read more
Reddit will continue blocking Microsoft and other search engines and AI ****** from crawling its content using robots.txt – unless they strike a content licensing deal. That’s what Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said in a new interview. Why Reddit is blocking search engines. Noting it’s been “a real pain in the ass to block these companies,” … Read more
Microsoft’s AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman believes most web content is “freeware’ that can be used for training AI ******. The only exception: websites that explicitly opt out. Freeware is any form of copyrighted software that can be freely downloaded, installed and used by end users. The quote. Here’s what Suleyman told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin … Read more
Imagine a world where finding information is even more effortless and intuitive. But that world comes with its own risks and fears. While a lot of people are benefiting from the sudden rise of AI into their daily lives, there is also a valid fear that AI will completely change online search in the near … Read more
Nilay Patel, Editor-In-Chief of The Verge, interviewed Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, at Google I/O, and the 40-minute interview released yesterday dug into a lot of the concerns we have been covering here. This includes how AI Overviews may kill the web, how smaller/independent publishers are dying, and if we can get data in Search … Read more
We’re in a disruptive moment, according to Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Although he is optimistic that Google AI Overviews and Search will drive more traffic and engagement, that is zero comfort for the many content creators who have seen their websites obliterated by Google in recent months. In a new interview, Pichai discussed … Read more
In a recent interview, Google CEO Sundar Pichai discussed the company’s implementation of AI in search results and addressed concerns from publishers and website owners about its potential impact on web traffic. Background On AI In Google Search Google has been gradually incorporating AI-generated overviews and summaries into its search results. These AI overviews aim … Read more
As Google Search continues to incorporate AI-generated answers into Search, “links will live on,” Alphabet/Google CEO Sundar Pichai told Bloomberg in a new interview. Here’s what you need to know from Pichai’s interview. Future of links. Unlike in previous statements, where Pichai indicated that the Search experience would evolve substantively in the next 10 years, … Read more
Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, was interviewed by Emily Chang at Bloomberg before the big Google I/O event. They talked a lot about a lot of things, but there was 25-second clip where they spoke about core search quality. As you can imagine, he didn’t say much but he did respond. Emily Chang asked at the … Read more
Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, said in an interview that Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information, not to provide blue links. Schmidt’s pragmatic statements seem to describe a future where websites are unnecessary and advertising is increasingly effective. Answers Without Links Is A Good User Experience? The ex-CEO’s prediction of the future … Read more
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